Today’s creation is a mini steamroller from a MOC (make your own creation) competition to create a vehicle using 15 pieces or less. Design is created by Alex Sonny:
Author: Jessica
Basic Airplane
This is a pretty basic airplane from Basic Building Set 515 (1990):
Blacksmithing Forge
Today we attempted to build a 2011 Lego Kingdoms set, Blacksmith Attack (6918):
This set is 104 pieces (including all the minifigs and tools). This set mostly uses types of pieces that are fairly common in current/newer sets, but it does require a few technic pieces for the moving parts.
1994 Pizzeria & Pizza Truck
Today’s build is 6350 Pizza To Go (1994)/10036 Pizza To Go (2002).
1978 Moon Rover
From set 493 “Space Command Center” (1978) and it’s international equivalent, “Command Centre”, we have a small moon-rover:
Booklet Printing
Today’s tip is how to print instructions in a booklet to save paper.
Lego’s customer service website provides most of their instruction booklets as a PDF of scans of the instruction booklet. Sometimes they don’t even crop out the hand holding the booklet on the scanner ;-). If you print them as-is, that takes a LOT of paper.
I am using Adobe acrobat reader XI on Windows 7. If you have a different OS or version, it’s possible the instructions might be completely different. Continue reading Booklet Printing
2003 Fun and Adventure Plane
Today’s model is a plane from set 4023 “Fun and Adventure“, released in 2003. 
Continue reading 2003 Fun and Adventure Plane
1971 Kraft Promo Sports Car
Today’s build is a very simple sports car from a 1971 Kraft promotional set “Mini-Wheel Model Maker No. 3“. 12 pieces (16 if you count the tires individually).
Inductive Bible Study Symbols
I started out thinking “gee these ascii art arrows look a little tired” and I didn’t want to do symbol font again like I had in another study. So I drew arrows on paper and scanned them in and colored them in photoshop in contrasting colors to visually differentiate.
Causation (Therefore, For this Reason)
Substantiation (For, Because)
Comparison (Like, As)
I was having a more difficult time with Contrast, because I don’t like the ambiguity that it could be confused for a copyright symbol. So I tried several variants. I’ve also tried an X in a box but I didn’t try that one here.
“official” learned symbol for contrast
idea 2, “negated” comparison as they are unlike. Supposed to be similar to a not equals symbol.
idea 3, represent opposing ideas with a yin-yang (but might be offensive or inappropriate to some because of spiritual connotations to other religions?)
idea 4, contrast symbol with arrows out the sides. Clear enough, doesn’t look like a copyright. Will do for now.
And then I came up with some labels for different inductive question types:
Observation
Interpretation
Application
Coming up with these symbols and then labeling the questions I already had written was quite useful actually. Launched me into a whole study of learning more about inductive study and I learned some useful things that I will blog about later that was improving my study. Plus I could see where I wasn’t asking enough observations, etc.
Comfort In Christ
1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. 6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; –2 Cor. 1:3-6
How is God described? (1:3)
- Father of our Lord Jesus
- Father of mercies
- God of all comfort
- Comforts us in our tribulation
(internal causation) Why does God comfort us in our tribulations? So that we may be able to comfort others also in the same way.
1:5 is adding support to this thought (notice the “for”/”because”): both the sufferings and our consolation are through Christ.
1:6 Internal cause and effect:
If we are afflicted it is for your consolation and salvation
If we are comforted it is for your consolation and salvation
Both comfort and affliction are for consolation and salvation (serving God’s purposes). Therefore we should rejoice regardless of whether we are afflicted or comforted.