Tom Powell
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Tom Powell
@bamfurlong.bsky.social
PCA Pastor serving out of bounds because coloring inside the lines is hard.

Early church (ThM in Historical Theology, long ago),
music (BA, even longer ago),
tech (decade in IT before ministry),
Tolkien, and general ramblings.
A lovely meditation: "A Harvest Festival: The Theological Sophistication of Mice" by David Knowles over on his substack:
open.substack.com/pub/davidkno...
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Who'd have thought that Google would so screw up their own business of search, seeking to trap you in the search and not showing you results that DUCKDUCKGO would turn out to be easier to find things. We live in that world.
February 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
February 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
One of the less-loved Penn Stations, Newark, still has some of its grandeur if you look for it.
February 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Let me welcome any discipline, how ever sore, which deepens and widens my sympathy. Let me bear my brother’s burden,and so fulfil the law of Christ. -Alexander Smellie
February 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
From Johann Gerhard’s Sacred Meditations:
January 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Awake, awake, to love and work!
January 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Fresh meme from me to you:
December 3, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Happy Thanksgiving from our family to you and yours!

BoPfW Psalm 136a:
November 28, 2024 at 2:46 PM
The annual Hobbit Seed Cake is made for the twins’ birthday.
November 22, 2024 at 7:07 PM
I'm all for this method. I also appreciate your game doesn't look like it involves weeks of painting miniatures.
November 19, 2024 at 11:29 PM
June 2, 2024 at 4:32 PM
How I feel about leaving Twitter right now:
September 24, 2023 at 5:19 PM