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garbunzl — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:55:22 +0000

Guest commentator Mr. T has returned to Jonspach.com to dispense more knowledge to us “suckas” on various theological topics. Entertaining as always. To see his previous posts on T.U.L.I.P, check out the new “T.heology” category on the left!

http://jonspach.com/?p=159

What’s been going on

garbunzl — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:15:39 +0000

Well, the hectic pace has continued in recent weeks but here’s an update. Nick’s t-ball season is now over and he had a great pizza party with his teammates and they all got trophies with t-ball players on them. Also, we went to the Mariner’s game for Little League day on May 20th. The seats weren’t the best; first base side 300 level, probably 15 rows from the wall. Fortunately, we did sit next to the coach and his son, so Nick had a friend to enjoy it with. While the M’s ended up losing to the Padres, 2-1, we did get to see a good outing by King Felix.

I’ve finally posted some video of Ella. It’s of her getting a bath at 2 weeks old (so long ago already). It’s a bit of a long one at 5 minutes, check it out in the mediaalbums.

Another task that’s been keeping me busy is building a website for my friend James. He has his own educational ministry and has started his own institute of theology. You can take a look at what I’ve been doing here. There’s still much content to add. Additionally, I did a quick little website for the Queens of Washington Drillteam, which you can take a look at here. Looks like the craziness will continue as James’ sister looked at his site and want’s me to do one for her as well.

Not Just A Name

garbunzl — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:21:35 +0000

As I was driving home the other night I drove past a church I noticed the message board had nothing more than the word: “Immanuel” on it. Knowing that the word is used a few different times in the bible, in reference to Jesus, it intrigued me enough to do a web-search on. I found an article on Wikipedia that talked about it’s meaning and origin. It literally means “God with us”, which I had heard before (but obviously didn’t retain) but even more interesting was that it consists of 2 Hebrew words (“El”, meaning God and “Immanu”, meaning with us). I have heard of other names for God (El Shaddai, God Almighty, etc.) where the “el” comes at the beginning and it is two words but it never occured to me that there are words with it at the end. Not being a linguistics specialist, this comes as no surprise. Anyway, as I was sitting there, re-growing some braincells, it occurred to me that my name, Nathaniel (which I’ve known meant gift of God) follows this same convention. In realizing this, I guess I felt a certain sense of pride that my name actually contains the word God in it. It also makes me feel a bit shameful when I look back at my teenage years where I didn’t like my name and thought it was the least cool name in school, partially due to being teased. At that time in my life, I began going by Nate, and though, in growing up, I’m no longer concerned with the coolness of my name, I still go by Nate. All my friends and family are accustomed to it and it’s just easier and quicker to say. I find it ironic how I used view it as an uncool name and now feel proud to have such a name. In closing, I found a list of other such names that refer to God. It’s interesting to peruse the list and see all the names of people I know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_referring_to_El