In 2024, I read through the entire Bible twice for my own growth, meditation, and learning. This year I am focusing on specific books and am reviewing a commentary on each book alongside the readings. My first chosen book for the year is the Gospel of Luke. One element I appreciate about Luke is that …
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Suno AI Song Creation Activity and Leadership
If you are a regular reader of my posts, you know that I am attempting to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) tools and services for both personal learning and growth and to benefit my students' learning. Consequently, I was intrigued when I first discovered Suno, a service the creates songs in a variety of different genres …
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2025: A Year of Growth and Intention
What is the best way to reflect upon the past year and plan for the new year? Those are questions that I tackle this time of year. I have used a variety of approaches to this in the past -- long lists, focusing on key words, etc. This year I am making a series of …
Immanuel: What’s In a Name?
Lutheran churches have taken on a variety of names through the years. I grew up at Trinity Lutheran Church in Roselle, IL, a congregation established in 1910. This name evokes the Godly mystery of the one God in three persons that we worship. Many congregations adopted names of key Biblical figures, such as St. John's, …
Essential Minor Prophets
This post returns to the "faith" element of faithedtech.org. It stems from my recent reading of the minor prophets as I completed the entire Bible for the second time this year. For some reason (well...the Holy Spirit!) I was struck by the modern relevance of some of those prophetic writings from the Old Testament. The …
Resources from AI Sessions — Fall 2024
It has been a busy first semester for me. In addition to my normal duties at Lutheran High School, I have had the opportunity to share about AI and education at several conferences. One of my challenges is that I tend to obsess about who my audience will be and how I can best help/serve …
What I am Reading this Summer
With the intensity of the school year, it is difficult to keep up with all the reading I want to do. Fortunately, the summer months bring a respite to that intensity and allow me to ramp up my reading and new learning. I thought I would share some of the titles I am reading this …
Thoughts on Understanding Genesis
This morning I completed reading my 26th book of the year. Understanding Genesis, by Dr. Jason Lisle of the Institute for Creation Research, sat on my desk for several years before I picked it up once more and read through it over the past several weeks. I am glad I did because this was extremely …
The Book of Ruth and Hope
Some of you may already know this about me, but I am constantly reading through the Bible. My general pattern is to read from four different areas of Scripture at a time: Psalms, Proverbs, and Wisdom Literature, New Testament, Old Testament History, and Old Testament prophets. The reason for this pattern is so that I …
Faith Heritage
I recently took a day trip from my mother-in-law's in Omaha to southeastern South Dakota. I tracked down the gravesite of my grandparents (see left), my great-grandparents, and other family members. I also found the old homestead three miles outside of the small, rural community of Chester, SD. I very much enjoyed the day of …
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