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Evernote’s new feature: two-step verification

One of my favorite apps is Evernote.  It is pretty simple.  It is a note taking program that syncs across multiple devices.  You should probably have some critical information at your fingertips at all times.  Bank account numbers.  Medical histories.  Flight information.  Birthdays of family members.  Maybe even social security numbers of family members.  Passwords.  For a long time I have hesitated to tell people I use Evernote for passwords, but now with two-step verification, it would be almost impossible for someone to break into my account.  Not only would they need my password, they would either need to use one of my devices or they would need to steel my phone.  Plus know where my passwords are.  Plus I don’t actually write down the passwords.  I have clues for the ones for banks accounts, etc.

Two step verification is easy.  I use it for my email as well.  In fact, Evernote and Gmail use the same Google product: Authenticator to generate the 6 digit code that is seemingly randomly produced every 10 seconds or so.  If I go to Evernote on a device I have not used before or in a long time, I will be asked to log in and enter my password, just like you do now, but then I am asked for a 6 digit number.  I use Authenticator on my cell phone.  Only the Authenticator on my phone will work.  If for some reason I lose my phone, there is a backup email that can unlock it.  Once I have gone through the two step verification, I do not need to verify myself for some time on that device again.

The Redeemer and the Jubile

This week we studied Luke 3 and 4.  There was one passage I was particularly excited about.  Luke 4:16-21.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up.  And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.  And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given him.  He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

"The Sprit of the Lord is upon me,

because he has anointed me

to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives

and recovering of sight to the blind,

to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down.  And the eyes of all the synagogue were fixed on him.  And he began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

I hear people call Christ a redeemer quit a bit, but I have never given it much thought.  It wasn't until I read a passage from Calvin that I understood it.  "Luke directed his view to a higher point; for though, from the time that God had made his covenant with Abraham, a Redeemer was promised, in a peculiar manner, to his seed, yet we know that, since the transgression of the first man, all needed a Redeemer, and he was accordingly appointed for the whole world."  This is referring to Levitical law.  In Leviticus 23 God says, "The land shall not be sold into perpetuity, for the land is mine.  For you are strangers and sojourners with me."  If a man becomes poor and sells some or all of his property, a redeemer can purchase his brothers land back for him.  In the prophecy that Jesus reads, it says that good news will be proclaimed to the poor.  I always felt the message was for me, but I never categorized myself as poor, but Calvin says, "those persons to whom God promises restoration are called poor."  Then I realized my true inheritance had been lost long ago.  My place before a Holy God was my true inheritance.  Adam and Eve had lost it and mankind has been poor ever since.  I have always thought of poor in terms of material possessions but I think what Isaiah means is spiritual poverty.

The last line also has to do with the redemption of property.  "…to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."  Calvin says, "Many think that here the prophet makes an allusion to the Jubilee, and I have no objection to that view."  In the year of Jubilee, all property went back to its original owners.  And with the blood of Christ, our place with God is restored as it was in the garden.  We are made holy again, as was our birthright.

Pictures of the house after my mom passed

A friend of the family had the good sense to go around the house and take some pictures of the house the way mom had it before anything was changed.  These are my dad’s favorites.  They are simple pictures but my mom put a lot into making this house look just right.  Some of the things in the house they have had since I was little.  Oddly, the pictures of the things, being the way they were, might mean more to me than the actual things themselves.

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Jeremy and Summer get married

My good friend Draper was united in the Holy Ma-wedge with his good friend and now life long roommate with benefits (among other joys).  It was a great time.  And while I am here to talk about the wedding, I might as well show a few pics and tell a few stories.  And not just the wedding.  There was a bachelor party and a rehearsal dinner.  All kinds of fun was had.

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Went to see the Rangers vs the Twins with Champions of Hope

Champions of Hope took Steven, Edgar and I to see a Rangers game.  Unfortunately the Twins won, but it was a lot of fun.  It was a really hot day.  I was told later it got up to 106 but I think that might be an exaggeration.  I think there were about two dozen of us.  The final score of the game was 4 – 2.  Thanks to the Rangers for the tickets!

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