Hope your day is blessed. This is a little drawing I sent out to Group magazine…so unfortunately, it doesn’t have depictions of Dustin or Luke…but they are there in spirit.
Dustin posted last year’s drawing on his blog….so I know he wishes you a warm holiday too!
Calling all Eastgate shooters, cameramen (and women) and children of all ages!! We want your PHOTO’s!
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Not long ago the height of church technology was some glass and a light bulb affectionately known as an overhead projector. Services weren’t centered around multi media, electric guitars or video clips, they were centered around Jesus. They were centered around Jesus but dang were they boring! I vividly remember sitting on a hard wooden bench (called a pew, why? I have no idea) listening to a fat white guy screaming at us about a myriad of sins we supposedly committed. Looking back I would have been stoked if an impromptu Black Sabbath laser light show would have magically appeared from the choir loft, or pyrotechnics shot from the pastors finger tips when he preached on fire and brimstone. Unfortunately none of that stuff happened, and my stay at church was short lived.
Now a days we have rows of computers, websites, MP3’s, and online churches. Are we better for it? We definitely can be, in the end it’s all about how you utilize the technology that will determine whether it’s an uplifting thing in your life or a drain. I am a massive consumer of all things tech. Most would call me a tech nerd, and I would agree. Below is a short list of the ways I use technology to better understand our King.
1. Biblegatway.com: your one stop bible spot. You can get everything here from nearly all the translations to commentaries, to the bible translated into nearly every language you could imagine. Tired of reading? No worries, you can listen to the bible at Bible Gateway.
2. itunes.com: I listen to a ton of music, but I listen to even more podcasts and they are all FREE on itunes. No, you don’t need an ipod, you can listen to them right on your computer and whats more you can even transform them into mp3’s at media-convert.com and put them on a CD for your car. [For your consideration, I download and listen to podcasts from: theROOT, Andy Stanly, Mosaic, Jim Bakker’s Revolution Church, Mars Hill (both Mark Driscoll, and Rob Bell), and of course This American Life]
3. Blogs: I subscribe to about a hundred blogs. Some are tech related but most of them are pastors scribbling down different thoughts and feelings related to faith, the church, life and just about anything else you could think of. One of my favorite blogs is The Prodigal Jon, and you can check out my blogroll (a list of bloggers who are awesome) at LiveSalty.com on the left hand side. To get the best of the best you can hit up SpitBox Magazine, and peruse the massive archive.
4. YouVersion.com: A Bible website with a twist. This site gives you the ability to go through the bible, take notes, send info to friends and family and collaborate with other community members. This site is still in Beta format, but you can still get a feel for what it is going to be when it fully launches.
Having all these tools at my fingertips has truly been a blessing in my life. It has cut my research time down dramatically while being entertaining at the same time. Jump in and check out the world that is WWW, but make sure you keep your common sense hat on because anybody can build a website and state everything as absolute fact.
Next Up: The Net: Parental Advisory
Hey everyone! As I mentioned Sunday, I’m posting the YouTube video of the Washington Post experiement with Joshua Bell. I’ve watched it several times, I find it fascinating.
And, in case you’d like to read the whole article that goes with the video, you can read it HERE
Oh….and one more thing. I’ve had a couple people tell me that the Sketchcast videos get chopy at the end of them. Have you had that experience? Just wondering.
Did Constantine cause everyone to think they were Christians (by establishing a state religion)?
Vodpod videos no longer available.Just on the off chance you don’t already know…Dustin (fellow Wonderwhater) and Leah had their baby boy early this A.M. All are doing well…you can see his picture at Dusty’s blog.
Congratulations to them all. God is good!
Vodpod videos no longer available.Who are the “shepherds” of Jeremiah 23:1-2? Are there pastors who fall into this catagory?
“Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the LORD. 2 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: “Because you have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done,” declares the LORD.”
Vodpod videos no longer available.If the Biblical age of creation is approximatly 6,000 years old, how can it be explained that, given the speed of light, the Hubble deep field images of stars are looking back in time at universes that are over one billion years old?
Been gone for a while, but now I’m back to tackle more of the questions I didn’t get to a few weeks ago. I’m trying a new means of accomplishing this…lemme’ know what you think.
Here’s the question:
Vodpod videos no longer available.“What do you do if a friend is living in sin with someone.”
What is our duty as a “body” in regards to something going on in the “body” that is not good and we don’t want to be gossiping? What is the proper thing to do?
The instructions of Matthew 18 are applicable here. Jesus said “If a fellow believer hurts you, go and tell him—work it out between the two of you. If he listens, you’ve made a friend. If he won’t listen, take one or two others along so that the presence of witnesses will keep things honest, and try again. If he still won’t listen, tell the church. If he won’t listen to the church, you’ll have to start over from scratch, confront him with the need for repentance, and offer again God’s forgiving love.”
Even before that…pray. Pray for God’s view of the situation. Is the “not good” thing not good because it isn’t in harmony with Scripture…or is it not good because it violates something specific to your own conscience? If it’s the latter, then continue to pray. If it’s the former, and you have a place in the person’s life to speak into it, then go and talk to them about it (and only him or her).
If you don’t have that place in their life, gain it. Get to know them, find out what’s going on with them and how you can serve them. Don’t go off on a crusade to clean a person up or fix them…that will only add new problems to the mix. Pray about how you can love and serve the people involved, and ask God to lead and convict and guide them. The Holy Spirit is well able to lead His own people, He doesn’t need us to show Him how to do it.
The bottom line answer is love. Love the person/people. If you have a place in their life to speak, speak in love. If you don’t, through love-find that place.
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