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Most of Dr. Paarmann's professional publications were in signal processing and
also in data converters. He is the author of the textbook Design and Analysis of Analog
Filters: A Signal Processing Perspective, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2001. The book is available from Amazon, as well as other sources.
To look inside the book on Amazon, click
here.
He is currently writting a second edition of this text.
Larry became a Christian while stationed at
Kadena Air Force Base,
Okinawa, in the
mid 1960s, where he was involved in the maintainance of navigation equipment
for the
F-105 Thunderchief
fighter-bomber. Three ministries influenced him while at Kadena: a Bible study
held in the base chapel, the Overseas Christian Servicemen's Center that he
attended, and the bilingual Kishaba Community Church that he attended. The base
chapel Bible study was conducted by an Air Force captain who's name I have
forgotten, but that Bible study was the first place that I recall meeting
people who acted as though they actually believed the Bible and prayed to God
as though He was really there. At Kishaba Community Church, all services were
conducted in English and Japanese, and about half the congregation was made up
of native Okinawans. These influenced me greatly, but it was through the
reading of the Bible, and through God leading me to accept His Son as my
Lord and Savior that resulted in my conversion.
On Okinawa I was immediately confronted with many challenges to my new-found
faith. A friend was a Morman. As in the USA, there were many faiths represented
on the island. The first book on theology I read was Finney's
Lectures on Systematic Theology, which
I now consider to be heretical. I read Whitcomb and Morris' book, The Genesis
Flood, which was my introduction to issues between mainstream science and
Christianity. Over the years, these issues, and others, have convinced me that orthodox,
evangelical Christianity has implications well beyond personal faith,
indeed, implications to all areas of life and knowledge:
to a unity of all truth, that includes religious as well as what many refer to as
secular. That's what this web site is all about.
Dr. Paarmann is a member of Mensa, and maintains a Special Interest Group (SIG)
on Evangelical Christianity as part of Mensa.
Dr. Paarmann is a member of
Heartland Community Church,
Wichita,
Kansas.
Heartland is a congregation of the
Presbyterian Church in America.
Heartland and the PCA hold to the Westminster Standards (The Westminster
Confession of Faith, the Larger Catechism, and the Shorter Catechism).
For a more complete view of what Dr. Paarmann believes, please refer to
the brief statement as to his beliefs on the home page,
and also refer to the Position Statements page of this web site. |