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@wrowclif I love creamed corn. I bet that is really tasty.

We made this for supper and it was really good. It has some fancy ethnic name, but it's basically creamed corn and ground beef casserole

@timrwild Ugh! I hate scented bags.

Oh no, I had to open a new box of garbage bags and realized they’re the scented ones I got on sale months ago. 49 more garbage bags to go before my kitchen is liberated from the smell of lemon 😩

@becomelutheran I will receive the gift of the Lord's Supper tomorrow, as I do each and every week.

Enjoy the gift of the Lord's Supper tomorrow. If your pastor does not provide this for you ask him why

@timrwild @CoryLaflin On a 1-5 scale (5=excellent) Speed: 1 Protection from the elements: 1 Quiet ride: 1 Safety features: 1 Innovation: 5

@CoryLaflin Rate my airplane

6 hour layover at ORD (again). AMA. #CoryOnTour2026

@becomelutheran I am not sure where all the hard feelings came from, but there are some things I just don't want to touch.

I was interested to see Red Letter Living and ULC podcasts doing a series interviewing LCMS presidential candidates. Open conversation is a good thing. It seems only Biermann and Finnern were able to be interviewed. I guess everyone else was too busy....

I was very hopeful that you might be different. Someone with an understanding of a wider view of the whole of the Christian Church. Claiming Roman Catholic ownership of the Bible seems, to those outside the Catholic faith, as supremely arrogant. It is like Apple Computer demanding that everyone give thanks to Apple Computer Corporation for all windowed interfaces because they were the first to successfully mass market a graphical user interface on the McIntosh computer.

@Jon34610Jon Well, I'm certainly glad that you haven't actually quoted Scripture, but accept the titles and numbers we placed in the Bible so that you could find them easily.

Contrary to what some non-Catholics believe and write, I have a lot of evidence that many Catholics certainly own and read Bibles. x.com/gonefishin1948…

@wrowclif Well, that was cryptic.

Heard that the pastor from the other brand of Lutheran Church in Saint Ansgar, who has been acting as a vacancy pastor for the church in Osage, decided to just switch to being Osage's full time pastor. Really curious how that plays out.

@becomelutheran @DrJordanBCooper Well. You have certainly chosen the gold standard for comparison!

@DrJordanBCooper I would assume so but like I said, I'm a newbie. I look forward to learning. Like many I have a disdain for bureaucracy so I'm interested to see how much of this looks like an SBC convention

This will be my first time in Lutheranism being aware of the LCMS Convention. Sounds like this year might be a little spicy. My prayer is that the Book of Concord wins out

@PawleSardano @gonefishin1948 Great! My Logos library pales next to yours. I have only 868 texts in mine.

@gonefishin1948 I've read the Bible 23 times in 2 languages and 8 translations. I've also invested over $16k into my Verbum.com Bible Study Library, which presently contains more than 3,800 books for Bible Study. I take Bible Study rather seriously. 😆

Catholics and Orthodox: How many of you have a Bible in your home that you read?

No I don't, but 99.9% of the time he has better insight than I do, so I find he is very reliable. I am Lutheran, and so we both refer to the Book of Concord as our understanding of scriptural intent. So it isn't surprising that we would both agree. When in doubt, I am a good Berean and look things up. If I need to, my pastor is very open to sitting down and talking things over. Note that I also have the CCC bookmarked on my computer (from the USCCB website). It is under my general "Bible" bookmarks in my "Catholic Faith" folder.

Do you take your preacher's word for what is in the Bible and what the Bible means?

I normally run some of the A/V equipment during the service, so I sit in the A/V room in the back. I found out that my pastor watches me and pays attention to my responses, as I sometimes lift my hands etc. One time he must have seen my frown, as after the service he asked me about it. When I told him he understood that what he had said could be mistaken, and took that as input. But, that is how he is. He stays in tune with the congregation, and is very open to feedback. He is just the best!

Are you asking this of Catholics also? When I was Catholic, I believed the priest was giving me the authoritative interpretation of Scripture. But as a Protestant pastor, I welcome it when a member of my congregation pushes back on my interpretation. That does not threaten me. It forces me to return to the text, sharpen my argument, and speak with greater clarity.

@NevinLawrence This will be one of the childhood things they never forget!

It should take me less than ten minutes to make pancakes from scratch. Every Saturday it takes 30 minutes.

@MyWatchIsLost @LaLaLisaCooper Good to hear that it still is a good place. I lived in The Oaklands just off of FM 620 for a little while, but that was 20+ years ago.

@LaLaLisaCooper Round Rock isnt bad.

One of my good (offline) (single) Lutheran guy friends is moving to Austin, TX. Any insights on churches/best places to live/etc?

@MyWatchIsLost @LaLaLisaCooper I agree, but it has to also be close to where you work to avoid traffic.

@LaLaLisaCooper I visited Redeemer Lurheran Church there recently last year. Ive also heard good things about St Paul. Best places to live is as far outside of the actual city of Austin as you can.

@GossipAero @wrowclif Yes. As a rule, we don't need much heat. Our house uses electric resistance heat for the few times we actually use it each winter. Also, you have a cool job!!

@wrowclif Sir, as a southerner in your country, we do not have these. 😂

Do Europeans have boilers? We use them to heat our homes. Great innovation. Maybe you only wear sweaters?

The determination to use forced circulation vs. natural circulation is dependent on the rate heat is added to the system and the system's overall ability to remove heat. For instance, a reactor on a nuclear submarine can use natural circulation at low power levels. But when the submarine needs to move quickly pumps circulate the water because more heat is needed to power the submarine. The reactor can add heat at a much higher rate than can be removed via convection. For natural circulation you must maintain what we in the power industry call Delta-T. That is, the difference in temperature across the heat source. And the rate of addition for a heat source of this kind (whether it be a home heating boiler or a submarine reactor) must not be so great as to cause boiling, as boiling significantly reduces the ability to remove heat from the system. (calling it a boiler is somewhat of a misnomer) And pressure must be treated more as an independent variable in a system like this. I assume the tank in his picture is a volume tank for expansion and contraction of the water. That is because the system itself must remain completely filled with water, and the piping cannot withstand much pressure. Without the volume tank, the addition of heat in a completely filled system would spike the pressure and swell or even burst the pipes. For a reactor, the volume tank is called a pressurizer. It is kept about half full and has its own heaters and cooling sprays which maintain pressure in the system independent of the power level. Without turning this into a technical paper, the short answer could be that a home heating system might use either forced or natural circulation, and pressure must be kept close to ambient. My thought was that it might be natural circulation because a) the large diameter of the pipes, b) the overall system size is small, possibly not large enough to include a pump, and c) the size of the wire I could see didn't look substantial enough to power an electric motor.

@GolfPointe04 @wrowclif Forced circulation? Did heat stop RISING ? Does hot water stop creating it's own pressure?

@wrowclif I guess you can tell I have never been around boiler type heat for homes.

@GolfPointe04 Not so puny. 144k BTU. Boilers are just small.

@PHenryMartin1 @EcciusMaximus Because the guy on the middle cross said he could.

@EcciusMaximus How did the thief on the cross get into heaven?

You don’t get into heaven by Faith Alone. No one early Church ever spoke of this not even one.