two kingdoms, hundreds of thousands of miles
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Practically in my own backyard, congregations that broke away from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America formed a new church body, the National Association of Lutheran Churches.
Credit is due to these congregations for recognizing the abyss that the ELCA is running toward. In addition to admitting unrepentant homosexuals into the ministry, the ELCA has also recently argued against the Virgin Birth (summary on Facebook), in addition to other older discrepancies with Biblical Christianity.
The NALC describes itself on its web site as “embodies the theological center of Lutheranism in North America.” Seeing oneself as on a left-right spectrum of theology is unfortunate; we should all be striving to stay as close to the promises of God as we can. It does “believe all doctrines should and must be judged by the teaching of Scripture.”
“For Good,” i.e., for good purposes, not for ever. :)
Last week I played with the Antares Auto-Tune plugin for Audacity. One thing Auto-Tune does is that it takes an audio track, finds the pitch frequency, and bends that frequency to the standard set of frequencies. If one is on pitch, there isn’t much change; if one is off, the effects can be quite humorous.
To see how well I stayed on pitch, I ran the plugin against some of my Time Out tracks, and it was eye-opening in a good way. Here was a way I could get some immediate feedback on my singing. There’s room for improvement, but it’s improvement that could be achieved. Instead of doctoring the audio, I could improve the singing so that the audio would not need to be doctored up. Tomorrow’s Time Out, Episode 80, will show the results. I think you’ll like it.
Now that my trial for the Antares Auto-Tune is up, I’ve switched to a free plugin, KeroVee by g200kg. There is another plugin called GSnap that has similar functionality.
There is enough of a singing element in some speech to make auto-tuning quite entertaining. YouTube has an Auto-Tune-The-News Channel, but I think you’ll like the attached auto-tuning of a great Lutheran podcast, the God Whisperers. Enjoy.
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You’ve seen the bumper sticker: “Know Jesus, Know Peace. No Jesus, No Peace.” Or perhaps you’ve heard some of the songs that extol peace that we have because we’re in his presence or because we know Him or because he’s in our heart, et cetera. The message for non-Christians? Get Jesus, and you’ll have peace.
Is it even true? Not if you’re talking an earthly peace outside of the Christmas event. Nero fed Christians to the lions. Muslims receive the death sentence for converting to Christianity. The pastor’s ability to label certain behaviors as sin has been threatened by legislation or judicial fiat.
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