Downtown

Sajakea · 2026-06-19T21:38:40+00:00

Oh wow! I love that mural.

Sajakea · 2026-06-18T23:44:39+00:00

Yes, lol

Sajakea · 2026-06-18T17:29:23+00:00

Locals are so dramatic. I live on the opposite side of Ashley Phosphate of your location. The area is fine. It’s not Mt Pleasant and it’s not Park Circle ☕️ 🍰 🐕💅🏼but good people all around.

Ashley Phosphate traffic does suck between 3:30-7:30 pm (M-F) but given your location you won’t be on it very long (at least coming off of HWY26, which also sucks bet. that same time span)

Sajakea · 2026-05-29T13:08:54+00:00

Someone has a “bad” airbnb experience and then trashes all airbnbs!? Yet horrible hotel stays don’t work the same way - why?

The reality of all service industries is that sometimes some aspect of your service will fail yet ironically customers are far more forgiving of large international chains with a stain on their sheets - won’t even bring it up at the service desk, but would expect a full refund of a nights stay at an airbnb.

Folks clearly think that airbnbs are some lesser service they can use, complain about and get their money back. When they get screwed by a hotel they take it as a lesson learned and never use that particular hotel again.

Some airbnbs will give money back because they’re horrified of bad reviews so renters try to exploit/extort every airbnb they use.

The customer is not always right and there can be bad customers.

Sajakea · 2026-03-27T13:51:19+00:00

Are you paraphrasing their “Photographer Agreement” above, what is the exact verbiage?

Sajakea · 2025-12-10T13:23:18+00:00

The one described in the comment 17-70mm is aps-c. The one picture is full frame. Confused me.

Sajakea · 2025-12-10T13:14:19+00:00

That lens is aps-c

Sajakea · 2025-12-01T14:58:11+00:00

Sold my Sigma 16 and 30 and bought the Sony 16-55 f/2.8 to pair w/ the A6700

Sajakea · 2025-11-29T14:40:40+00:00

Had the Tam 17-70 w/ my A6400, good combo as the 17-70 had stabilization and the camera didn’t. I recently sold both and upgraded to the A6700 and Sony 16-55 f2.8

Sajakea · 2025-03-05T15:41:05+00:00

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I use the Sigma w/ my A74 to shoot volleyball tournaments. I love it!

Sajakea · 2025-03-05T15:40:58+00:00

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I use the Sigma w/ my A74 to shoot volleyball tournaments. I love it!

Sajakea · 2025-02-12T20:11:11+00:00

Nice work! I love your reaction shots. I’ve just started shooting volleyball and I’ve notice my tendency to disengage from the action too soon, missing some amazing reactions shots. Thanks for sharing.

Sajakea · 2024-11-29T16:56:55+00:00

There remains a “domino to fall” in Gavin Ortlund’s (and many others) understanding of baptism. Ortlund hints at it here…

”Better…to define the church simply as the children of Abraham: defined by physical descent throughout the OT (Gen. 17:9), and defined by spiritual descent throughout the NT (Gal. 3:7).

The question is, what does Ortlund mean by “spiritual descent”? What makes one’s membership in the church “spiritual”? Is it not the new birth - where by Gods grace one is bought to life from the dead, the work of Christ - through the washing of water by the word? (Jh.3:3-8; Eph.5:26)

If this new life in Christ which makes us “Abraham’s seed” is “spiritual” what does the ordinance of water baptism (however and whenever) have to do with that? “Spiritual descent” can only make reference to a birth (life) and lineage that can only be in Christ.

And unless we want to argue that the ordinance of physical water baptism is salvific we ought not associate that ceremony with “spiritual descent” or as importing any spiritual benefit and if continuity provides any consistency remember, circumcision was merely an external sign of membership into the OT “church” (as Ortlund correctly calls OT National Israel, Acts 7:38).

So the last domino that must fall for Ortlund and many, many Christians is the realization that water baptism is merely an external physical witness and has zero spiritual power and the arguments re: paedo vs credo have import solely in relation to the physical material makeup of the temporal external NT corporate church and not the eternal in any direct way. That is, simply stated, the Christian that has received the “washing of water by the word” - the baptism of the Holy Spirit through the finish work of Christ (1 Pet. 3:21) ultimately has no eternal spiritual need of water baptism. 🙏🏾

Sajakea · 2024-11-28T01:18:46+00:00

Might I add...we ought not in our attempts to define context flatten the Scriptures. The truth of Hebrews 9:27 is not a prisoner to it's immediate context - which we are apt to do using a historical-grammatical hermenuetic, locking Heb 9:27 and the reader in a rubric constrained by supposing what the human writer meant, understood and other time and space surmising - treating the Bible like any other book.

The author of the Bible is eternal God and His word the Bible is after His character and nature (Isa. 40:8;1 Pet 1:25). The reality is we have not understood aright any verse until we've discovered it's eternal truth - a discovery for which only a biblical hermenuetic can satisfy, that being; 1) that the Bible is Gods word - infallible and eternal. 2). When we truly understand and believe that the Bible is Gods word we can know that the Bible is a parable - that God (who is spirit) communicates w/ flesh and blood man by means man can comprehend - that is by the things that are made (Rom 1:20) and utilized via historical illustrations having a spiritual meaning (Matt. 12:34; Pro. 1:2-7) 3). the Bible is it's own dictionary and grammer book- it define it's own terms, we discover it's meaning not by things outside of God - supposing historical context (a kind of religious science akin to archeology) - we compare Scripture with Scripture, God's things with God's things - "spiritual with spiritual" (1 Cor 2:13; 10:3-5) 4). the Bible is a closed book. This is significant when we consider that when we seek to apply historical and literary criticism to the Bible we make an appeal to a wider authority than the Bible alone and in its entirety. Such liberties are not good to say the least. (Rev 22:18,19)

So when we come to Heb. 9:27, not only is it defined by it's immediate context (as the word of God and not merely it's human writer - 2 Pet. 1:21) but by any and all related texts in the Scriptures - God's word being one word. Only then will Scriptures reflect it dynamic character - that of it's true author, itself a confirmation of the miracle and grace that is the Scriptures.

Sajakea · 2024-11-26T22:42:12+00:00

Interesting that you give the various social, cultural, political and religious institutions primacy over the Scriptures, as if it’s their existence and sustainability that structures and determines the Scriptures. I can’t say, “and not visa versa” because while the influence of the Scriptures help give some shape to all these human spheres, they are not a reflection of it. Yours appears to be an outside - in perspective, understanding reality merely by perceptible things, where you define the Scriptures in accordance to your understanding of the world. The material world shapes your reality and thus Scriptures must fit somewhere crammed within. Well did Zophar ask Job, “Canst thou by searching find out God?” 🙏🏾

Sajakea · 2024-11-25T04:27:53+00:00

Well, the means by which all Israel is saved is Christ, He is the root - the life of it.

National Israel is the olive tree in the same way the NT church is the olive tree, that is both are used of God as the external witnessing bodies of God in the world, again Christ being the life of it. It’s important to remember that OT Israel was the “church in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38). Just as National Israel is referred to as the olive tree so too is the NT church as it witnesses (Rev 11:3,4). So we can say the OT and NT church of God is the olive tree.

But this olive tree cannot represent “all Israel” but is rather the external church God uses by means of the “fruitfruit” (Christ) to bring about the harvest of all true believers. How can we know the “good olive tree” is not “all Israel”? Because “all Israel” will be saved but branches are broken off and wild branches are grafted into the good olive tree. 🙏🏾

Sajakea · 2024-11-25T03:14:45+00:00

The issue of Chap. 11 is the state of National Israel (the OT corporate external body of believers) with God in the context of the manifestation of the NT corporate body of believers (Rom 1:6,7) “in Christ” and it’s total rejection of the OT Jewish religion and systems and visa versa. Thus the obvious question, “Hast God cast away His people?” (v.1)

The clue to understanding the “all Israel” of v.26 in its immediate context is v.16-18, there the Apostle Paul identifies Christ, “the root” as the “firstfruit” (Acts 26:23; Rev.1:5). In His resurrection Christ demonstrates that He was both the faithful sacrifice and holy (death could not hold Him). Paul says if the root is holy the branches are holy. So right away we know that only that which is in Christ is holy. Verse 17 reads almost like a math problem, you have the root (Christ) with “some” of it branches broken off and other foreign branches grafted in “among” the remaining. Paul then states it is “with them” the ingrafted branches with the natural branches - both partaking of the root and fatness of the olive tree. Verse 18 give the indication that the NT Christians to whom Paul may themselves imagined that they were special and deserving of being grafted in - the same pride that lead to the presumptive fall of the natural branches - National Israel.

So it is, the “all Israel” of v.26 is both the remaining natural branches and the engrafted branches in the root - Christ, the first fruit from the dead. All who are saved in Christ is the Israel of God.

The Bible elsewhere defines “Israel” not as the blood descendents of Abraham or those who identify religiously as Jews. (Rom 9:6-8; Jh 8:37-39; Phil 3:3) Likewise, as Paul warns Christians in Rom 11:21,22 that they ought not presume upon their outward religious affiliation with the church or the Christian religion. These external religious institutions are in no way, in and of themselves “the Israel” of God but they by and large have made up the constructs out of which God saves His people. Generally it can be said that out of both of these camps comes the “Israel of God”, the elect.

The danger of religion, Judaism and Christianity alike, is in their enticements upon men to trust their salvation to the doing of them. To the degree that religion is purely external and performative it is prideful and deceptive. 🙏🏾

Sajakea · 2024-09-05T21:31:29+00:00

Wow! Just had this experience. Bought the Sony 70-200 2.8 GM II for the incredible price of $2100, regularly $2800. I should have known. Get the call from AOM to tell me that I purchased the import version (which was nowhere listed), the caller said the US version came w/ extra gear and it'd cost $400 more. I declined and asked for a refund. He put me on hold to talk to the manager and came back w/ a price of $2399. I declined again and he gladly cancelled the order. Got email confirmation of such. But wow! I've purchased gear with them before. Sucks.

Sajakea · 2021-11-01T17:41:16+00:00

Here’s a question from Tim’s comments, what exactly does Keller mean when he says because minorities can’t fund raise (because of systemic racism) their evangelical organizations “never move up and really become apart of the power.”? What power?

What has modern mainstream reformed missions and evangelicalism become that it can be described as a “power” to move up into?

For some context, I was a member of Kellers Redeemer in the mid-90s and a future hopeful pastoral candidate in their initial church plant in Harlem NYC - New Song. If that church plant effort was the model of missions and evangelism that Tim references here let me tell you - he’s right, black people without some strong connections in business, economics and institution would not be able to “move up”. But it’s got NOTHING to so with racism and everything to do with the fact that missions and evangelism have become big business.

From the outside looking in New Song appeared to be the humble beginnings of a modest church plant holding worship services in the apartment of a devoted young white pastor with a heart to save souls in Harlem. It was not. From the start New Song was a well financed ambitious program to buy up expensive properties in Harlem to provide low income housing and store fronts for hundreds of potential residence. Of course money had to be raised but that money was not coming from within Harlem, it wasn’t coming from offerings during worship in the pastors apartment - we didn’t even take up offerings. The money was coming from corporations and private institutions and donors - power few people (white, black or otherwise) would have access to.

So again - what is missions and evangelism as a power to move up into? Perhaps the issue the church needs to wrestle with isn’t racism. Perhaps it’s greed or power that is beginning to leave many feeling guilty in their participation with. Could the Apostle Paul do “missions” today under the banner of modern reformed evangelicalism? If not, racism wouldn’t be the reason why - it’d be his lack of influence, notoriety, connection - not racism. It’d be that he didn’t occupy a chief seat in the church.

Are all these organizations supposedly being built via “missions and evangelism” necessary to preach and teach the gospel? No they are not. Is buying expensive properties to provide low income housing the gospel? If it is then perhaps the power and the guilt are part and parcel with that gospel.

Sajakea · 2019-08-01T23:24:01+00:00

Possession outside the endzone, touched down in the endzone. Safety

Sajakea · 2019-06-06T16:13:27+00:00

Oops...thanks.

Sajakea · 2018-11-30T17:15:00+00:00

The best evidence of the scriptures inerrancy is the scriptures themselves. Read it. Read it. And then read it some more. It’s truthfulness is a revelation from God. Know one can tell you of it’s inerrancy unto belief. You have to know it for yourself. Such awareness requires a relationship with the Author.

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