Project Submarine

project submarine

Along with Narnia Elementary School there are a few other ministries in Banská Bystrica that we are excited about. In this post I’m writing about one that’s called “Projekt Ponorka” or Project Submarine.


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Dissertation Template: Submitting the Final PDF File (video)

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It’s finally time to submit that final version of your dissertation as a pdf to Proquest/UMI Dissertation Services. Rejoice!

Even if you’ve written you’re dissertation in a single MS Word file (as I highly recommend), you’ll still need to create several separate pdf files of your dissertation and then recombine them into one single pdf document. I’ll explain why and how in this tutorial.


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Dissertation Template: Printing Chapter by Chapter (video)

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This is a tutorial for use with the MS Word template for writing dissertations and research papers according to the TEDS formatting and style guide. In this tutorial I explain how to prepare a multi-chapter document for printing chapter by chapter (in separate files).


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Nine Down, One to Go!

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Today I turned chapter 9 of my dissertation in to my first reader. That leaves just one more chapter to go. Since my first reader is gone all of June I’ll need to finish that chapter by the end of May.

That should be plenty of time. I hope.


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A Work that You Will Not Believe

Rembrandt's St. Paul in Prison

The first of Paul’s significant speeches is recorded by Luke in Acts 13 when Paul speaks in the synagogue in Pisidian Antioch. The speech is interesting because it contains a cryptic quote of Habakkuk that is often preached horribly out of context. That’s too bad because it plays an important role in setting up the second half of the book of Acts.


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Decisions, Decisions (Update)

Narnia Elementary School

In the last post I filled you in on a big decision that’s in front of our little congregation. It has to do with purchasing property and buildings for Narnia Elementary School, which is an outreach ministry of our congregation. Today we had our business meeting and I’m encouraged by the results.


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Decisions, Decisions

Narnia Elementary School

Our little congregation of seventy is facing a big decision this weekend that not only determines the fate of one of our most important ministries but also poses a bit of a threat to the unity of our church. We’d sure appreciate it if you would click through to read this post and pray accordingly. The post is maybe a little long but if you read it you’ll see how God has been at work in our city!


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Dissertation with Introduction Before Chapters (video)

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Along with my day job I also try to help out my fellow PhD students by providing them with a template that helps them automagically format their dissertations, proposals, and research papers at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

In this particular post I am responding to a recent question in which a user asked if it was possible to include a formal introduction that was not counted as a chapter in the table of contents. In the video above I show you just how to do that. It’s really pretty simple.


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We've Only Just Begun: The Emergence of Paul

The Stoning of St. Stephen

At the beginning of the book of Acts Jesus said to his disciples,

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

As we’ve worked our way through the first half of the book we’ve found that we have gone through each one of these elements. The Holy Spirit has come upon the disciples and they have been his witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the eart. Since we’re reading Acts as a story it might seem like the tension of the plot has been resolved. Why isn’t the story over? While it’s true that the Gospel has been preached to “the ends of the earth,” there’s still more to be explored about this idea of the gospel to the ends of the earth.
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Rembrandt's Stoning of Stephen

The Stoning of St. Stephen

I can’t really recall when I’ve ever looked at a classic piece of artwork and felt like I understood all those things about the lines and the blah, blah, blah, that you can read in some of the art critics’ commentaries. But as I was selecting a piece of art for my next theology post (The Story of the Book of Acts) I noticed something really cool about Rembrandt’s piece on the Stoning of St. Stephen pictured above.
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