Tyler’s Weblog

So let’s get dressed for battle. The first thing we have to dress in is called the arming doublet. Along with pants and shoes this padded garment was ligned with mail gussets to cover the gabs in the plate armor.

Also this doublet has waxed thongs (called points) to which the outer armor is fashioned.

Now today’s “scripture” doesn’t actually come from the bible. Bare with me though, this is an old saint that had the scriptures in mind when he wrote to his comrade in the Church of Antioch.

The Epistle of St. Ignatus to Polycarp reads as fallows;

Please the Captain in whose army ye serve, from whom also ye will receive your pay.

Let none of you be found a deserter.Let your baptism abide with you as your shield; your faith as your helmet; your love as your spear;

your patience as your body armour.

Chapter 6 vs. 5-10

I say that we need to put on patience as our undergarments. As someone tries to pierce your armor and get to your heart, let patience be the last thing they come up against. Show them that God is the master of your life, and the master of your time. Let God’s perfect timing keep you safe and secure in the battle that rages for your soul.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith…

Galatians 5:22

That’s right baby Elijah showed up on July 30th at 2:41am. He weighed in at 7lbs. 6oz. and is 21″.

The updated Cox Web Ink site is up and running. And what a good looking site it is ( if I do say so myself.) Check it out at www.coxwebink.biz

For a long while I’ve had an idea of using the Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game (by Decipher) in conjunction with other literature I’ve found as a tool for ministry. Mainly using a fun, fellowship activity in a non-threatening environment to introduce other geeks like me to the power of our Lord of all things.

Now I don’t want to do what Tolkien himself said he didn’t do. The Lord of the Rings is not an allegory. In fact the stories were made to be just that, stories. They are fictional works to be taken as entertaining. Not as a great Christian outreach tool. However Tolkien’s life beliefs definitely shown through his works. And so I believe if given completely to God and let him take my nerdy talents He can use it to further the Kingdom.

Unfortunately for me Decipher has discontinued their beautifully designed role-playing game, but they have given me plenty of information to go on. And I own most all of the books they published. Also there are wonderful resources like Hall of Fire Magazine and others that are adding more stuff. And of corse I can be a pretty creative person myself, and I know quite a bit of the land of Arda and Tolkien’s universe.

Also as far as the ministry aspect goes I have the book “Finding God in the Lord of the Rings.” And a couple other devotionals about similar things.

Things are finally starting to fall into place, if ever so slowly.
The CWI website is getting the first face-lift. You can watch the process at http://www.coxwebink.biz/cwi4.html.
After that other sites will fallow with graphical updates. The good thing is that I’m learning as I encounter problems.

Finally after much confusion and work I have put my WordPress blog onto my own webspace. So now I can update my Xanga just by updating my WordPress.

This confusion is really my fault, it was actually quite easy, I just was confused to what I needed to do. And if any of you out there wants to know how to do it, don’t hesitate to ask.

My new blog site is at www.coxwebink.biz/tyler/wordpress/ No not exactly an easy address to remember, but I’ll see what I can do about that. For now it’s on our webspace and I have more edibility to it.