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I just found a couple free font websites. I’m putting them here for my own future reference.
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How to be a wise blogging pastor?
Published by Jeff, on July 13th, 2006 in Church Planting, Front Page, Geekery, Leadership, Tough Questions, VIP.Colossians 4:5 says this:
Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.
As a pastor who’s got a blog, I’ve been thinking about how this verse relates to blogging. I’ve been blogging for over a year, and I don’t yet have a “manifesto” like this guy on what my blogging policy should be. However, I’ve been prompted this week by some friends to consider it, so I’m thinking through the issues.
As I see it, there are three ways for a pastor (or anyone for that matter) to do a blog.
- Use the blog as a personal journal where you “get naked” (according to a book on blogging by Robert Scoble the guy I linked to above.) in front of your virtual audience and basically share anything and everything. Of course, there is some room for discretion, but in general, it’s your personal journal viewable by the world.
- Use the blog as a “content management system” which basically means you maintain your own online magazine with articles essays and whatnot and use a blog mechanism to manage your content and people’s comments on your content. One example of that is The Resurgence.
- Use the blog as a hodge-podge mix of the two—blogging about whatever seems to come to mind. (I’m not sure it fits, but I’ll link to it anyway.) See Tim Challies’ blog for an example of a blog that attempts to be personal & academic though it weighs more toward the academic side.
As I’ve been around the net a while, it seems to me that the majority of “Gen X” church planters who blog opt for version 3 with a heavy leaning on option 1.
I’ve been using this site as mostly #3 so far. As you can see from my categories on the sidebar, I’ve got sermons, Bible studies, personal journal entries, exposing my own spiritual life, computer issues, and even some posts on internet fraud. You can see it is all over the map like a Christmas tree with every kind of ornament ever invented showing up on it.
In fact, it seems that my posts on self examination and internet fraud are my most popular. Are people even reading my blog to grow spiritually?
So the question I’m asking myself now is this: What kind of web presence should I have? If you have any comments on this, I’d like to read them. Or you can give me a call on my cell at 765-404-0807 to tell me what you think personally. If you want to think this through with me, check out the links I placed above or my links in the sidebar of my .
| What kind of blog helps people grow spiritually? | |
|---|---|
| X | |
| transparent | academic |
Where would the X fall for you?
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ZOHO — 12 incredible, free, web applications
Published by Jeff, on July 11th, 2006 in Church Planting, Geekery, Leadership.How do you collaborate with teams through the Internet? Web-based applications are the answer. I’ve found some killer web applications. Read on to find out more!
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Palm Pilots and Web-based Calendars / Contact Database
Published by Jeff, on July 8th, 2006 in Church Planting, Geekery, Leadership.Prompted by an article on pastorhacks.net
I’ve been a Palm Pilot PDA user since my mom bought me one when I graduated from seminary. (Palm Vx, and awesome tool!)
The best feature of the Palm is the ability to have my contacts and calendar on my computer at home and also on a device in my pocket. Being able to sync to the Palm Desktop has always been a valuable tool for me.
But my contacts are not my own anymore—neither is my calendar. As a church planter, I’m facing a need to have my personal contacts synchronized with our church contacts and having my personal calendar sync with my church calendar. But there is just nothing out there to do both of those and sync with my Palm. I need a centralized database that is…
- Contacts & Calendars
- Updatable by members of our congregation
- Shareable with permission-based access control.
- Web-accessible
- pilot-sync-able
I’ve been looking for this for a long time and have had no luck. Actually, the only viable option I can find is to have an Exchange server paired with Outlook. Of course, that’s a hefty Microsoft tax that I don’t want to pay, and I don’t think it can be updated by users.
Here are some options I’m considering.
- ical exchange — allows for publishing public and private calendars from any ical capable calendar for others to subscribe to or view them online through a browser.
Any ideas?
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It’s late at night and my wife is asleep on the couch, but I just have to post this before I go to bed. Tonight at the Skylight Coffeehouse in Lafayette, I went to the open mic night as I usually do on Thursdays. Tonight, however, I was actually hosting, and I performed a little bit myself, but we were graced at the end with an act that was just so cool.
The band is called POPPLE, and you have to visit their websites:
You need to watch some of those videos and then come back here to leave a comment.
(Oh, and they are actually doing their music as a Christian Ministry.)
I hope they don’t mind my posting of this rip. (The live version was better.)
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I’ve had some good responses from my few game postings, so here are a couple of more links to some cool games and sites:
- www.armorgames.com — flash games
- jayisgames.com — a blog site reviewing games.
- Dumb: The Game — test how dumb you are.
- Room Escape — post a comment if you can escape from this room!
- The Python Challenge — learn the Python programming language by playing this online game (Hint: Always view the source of each page)
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More Scams? WorldwideShoppingNetwork.com & wsnrewards.com
Published by Jeff, on April 27th, 2006 in Front Page, Geekery.I recently was notified of some websites that operate very much like our beloved bpshoppingspree.com. The new websites (and I’m sure they aren’t the only ones out there) are:
WorldwideShoppingNetwork.com & wsnrewards.com
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"Our biochemistry is about 97% the same as a mouse.
Our biochemistry is about 50% the same as a banana.
Human Cytochrom 'C' is closest to that of a sunflower.
Human eyes are closest to the eyes of an octopus.
Human skin is closest to that of a pig."
Explain to me, how this fits in with primates??? With all due respect, i think his aim with "god set it up that way" was meant to be an insult of some kind. He sounds very passionate about this subject and with passion comes biases. While i'm not researched in anyway on this specific argument, generally speaking i'm convinced these people only look at their "evidence" with one prospective; 1st proves evolution or doesn't.. They don't even consider any other possibility of what it could mean..Taken at face value because i don't know anything about the human gnome and could be missing key things due to pure ignorance. Start of video; You had plenty of time to research and form a "theory" on something then proceed to drop this well researched project on someone and expect them to refute you on the drop of dime?? I dont think you need a PHD to say; you should allow someone to try refute your findings within a respectable time frame. That seems like the most objective thing to do. Although i think this would show insecurity on "Ken's" part. (To have holes punched in something your just presenting would be kind embarrassing. or was it arrogance?) Rest of video: Sounds like its not an exact match, "within 15 bases", and something about Telomeres not belonging? The choice of "correspond with" instead of something like is "exactly like", implicates some differences as well?.. But i could be completely wrong.. "no reason, no rhyme" sounds like he is insulting the bible as well. Would be very interested in hearing a completely objective view on these findings..