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It’s all about data these days. Information. Back when I was a lad, data was measured in kilobytes. My friend’s Commodore 64 computer was so-named because it had 64 kilobytes of storage (ah, wasn’t life so much simpler in the ‘80s?) These days, with 500 million daily tweets on X, and 294 billion emails sent and 4 million gigabytes of daily Facebook data produced, the amount of information in the world is calculated to be 175 zettabytes (=175 trillion gigabytes). There is so much to know, it’s no wonder so many people are overwhelmed. We’re drowning in information.

The 4th century theologian, philosopher and pastor, Augustine of Hippo was no dummy. He produced a fair amount of information himself. But, in his Soliloquies, Augustine imagines God asking him what he wants to know. Augustine replies that he wants to know only two things: who he is and who God is. Everything else is relative to these two pieces of information.

Maybe he was on to something.

~ Pastor John

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How can a crow sleep soundly when the figs are ripe? – Indian proverb

And though this world, with devils filled,

should threaten to undo us,

we will not fear, for God has willed

his truth to triumph through us.

The prince of darkness grim,

we tremble not for him;

his rage we can endure,

for lo! his doom is sure;

one little word shall fell him. – Verse 3 of ‘A Mighty Fortress is our God’

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