My Twine Beta Invite is Here
I finally received my Beta invite to explore and toy around with Twine! So, I’ll be busy organizing, sharing, and discovering information! I’ll be sure to report back! What is Twine?
Twine is a new service that helps you organize, share and discover information about your interests, with networks of like-minded people. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company.
I do believe 2008 will be the year of content and information editing and organization. We are going to see a plethora of web applications that help us organize and stream line all of our online information and product. We’ll probably see more human editing too, of some sort. We need it. There is just so much content online now, it’s difficult to sift through it all, much less make sense of it.
Thomas Beatie is Pregnant and World Loses Mind
Surely everyone has heard about Thomas Beatie by now. Right? You know, “Mr.” Thomas Beatie, the pregnant man? I tried to ignore this silly story, but after a quick visit to Oprah’s web site I just can’t help but ask: “Have we lost our freakin’ minds!!!” Oprah’s web site says:
Thomas is 34, happily married and … pregnant. Our cameras capture it all-the ultrasound, inside the nursery and more. How is this possible?
“How is this possible?” How is it possible?!? What kind of idiotic question is that?!? How is it possible? I’ll tell you how it is possible! Thomas Beatie is a woman who had a sex change operation that did not go beyond the surface level. Said differently, her female reproductive equipment was left undisturbed and intact. She’s a woman with a few outward male attachments. Yes, she radically accessorized, but she is still female inside, obviously. How did this happen!?! Are Oprah and her people really, really stumped on this one? Is the answer really that far from sound reason and understanding? Really, is it? Read More »
Animated Lego Shorts
Animated Lego Shorts by Spite Your Face Productions: Lego animation is produced using the traditional stop-motion process. Spiderman: The Peril of Doc Ock and Monty Python and the Holy Grail are top-notch shorts. Shorts are available in HQ Divx and YouTube versions, for your viewing pleasure.
How to Record Your Live Sermons
One would think that recording live sermons would not be so difficult in these technologically advanced days we are living in at the moment. Well that one would be mistaken! The process of live recording sermons and distributing them through your church’s web site can be quite difficult, to say the least. Obstacles abound! If your attempt to inch slightly ahead of the learning curve you are introduced to by the technology involved doesn’t sink you, the seemingly never-ending electronics shopping by trail and error will. Hint: If you don’t know what you are doing, you don’t know what to buy! Sometimes all who wander are in fact lost! All of this wandering around the electronics store, and trying to do it by trial and error, only results in more work and time lost. Read More »
Rob Dale and Capital City Bikers’ Church
There are people out there living it! Check Rob Dale and Capital City Bikers’ Church. This is a great example of honest, natural, organic Gospel contextualizing and solid expression and belief!
Capital City Bikers’ Church launched in January 2002 with a desire to share the message of God’s unconditional love and His amazing grace with the motorcycle community of the National Capital Region.
They are self-proclaimed “people in your neighborhood.” I believe it. God’s blessings on your ministry!
Internet Evangelism Day 2008
Are you an Internet evangelist? Do you live with an Internet evangelist? If either is the case, then by all means do check out or pass the word about Internet Evangelism Day (IED). You can access a bunch of online resources at the official IED web site that will aid you in your digital outreach and evangelism. Incidentally, Internet Evangelism Day is being celebrated on the 27th of April. Personally, I’m not sold on the idea. I think relationships in real-time are pretty important in meaningful evangelism, but with God, I know, anything is possible!
UPDATE: I received a note from Internet Evangelism Day Coordinator, Tony Whittaker. I think Tony makes some really awesome points. Check Tony’s note after the jump (reprinted with permission). Read More »
Barack Obama Headquarters in Lancaster City
Tonight, I joined my fellow hope-filled politicos at the Barack Obama Headquarters in Lancaster City. We talked and planned phone banking, community canvassing, GOTV (Get Out The Vote), and the “Superbowl, World Series, World Cup-like event” that is the 22nd of April in PA. April 22nd is primary day. I’ll be living at the Obama HQ that whole day, providing they get the cable installed so we can watch the results in real-time on cable news.
I made 36 phone calls this evening and to my happy surprise not one registered democrat declared a vote for Hillary. Everyone who was sure of their vote strongly supported Obama. There were three undecided, but no one declared support for Clinton. I think Obama is going to claim an upset victory in PA. Read More »
Share Your Sermons with Google Base
Google is getting faith, it seems. Now you can upload and showcase and share your sermons and writings via Google Base. It is a good thing that Google Base is in Beta because I have not been able to successfully sign into the application as of yet. It’s stuck in a perpetual load sequence.
Learn How to Speak Hip
I’m learning how to speak hip as part of my continued effort and dedication to preach culturally relevant sermons on Sunday mornings.
Ron Sider and Evangelicals for Social Action
Have you considered Evangelicals for Social Action? I have; I just joined as a member too! It is very likely that the continued rise of such culturally relevant and biblically solid Evangelical expression will render newer and thinner expressions pointless and maybe even a tad silly too (the more videos like this I watch, the less I want to hang out with either side).
Suggestion: If you are looking for something deeper, don’t toss out all of Evangelicalism just because a whole bunch of people may have not expressed it as well as it could have been. Don’t buy into the latest book-selling gimmick or popular fad. Just dive even deeper into faith and history and do it right yourself. You may find others who will happily join you on this deep journey at Evangelicals for Social Action.
Incidentally, ESA was founded by Ron Sider - author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger and The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience (these books, according to the web site, articulate ESA’s vision). Read More »