CCC Theoblogian Makes Wired

Campus Crusade blogger McRyanMac complains about Blogger.com and hits the big time. In a single post, he gets mentioned on Wired News and Blogger Forum. Well done! I have spoken to Campus Crusade leaders in the past about blogging and have not succeeded in converting any of them. They are usually interested in BIG TIME…

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Candle for Peter Benenson

“Simon and I wrote it as a dedication to Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International who died in February, age 83.” Mike from Rivertribe (who backed me up in Portugal last year) on the new music track called ‘Candle Burning’. Read the story and then download a sample.

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A Year Later: The Money Thang

VERY exciting email yesterday – A Foundation has offered to match donations given to us. Its been almost exactly 5 years since we left USA to come to Europe. And exactly a year (April 19, 2004) since I wrote The Skinny on Support in response to a blog post called Faith or Gutlessness?, in particular…

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Motion 2 and VJs

Motion 2 (debuted yesterday) could be a solution for Video Jockeys who don’t want to pay for extra software (like I did with Arkaos). “MIDI support allows Motion 2 to be “played” like a musical instrument with animation changes triggered by playing a keyboard or using faders or knobs on a MIDI controller.” Link

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If the Vatican went Emergent

Today the Cardinals enter into their private conclave to begin praying, discussing, and choosing a new Pope for the Roman Catholic Church. The successful vote will be accompanied with white smoke and bells but “full details of the actual vote will not be published for 100 years.” ( BBC)) 100 Years???? Obviously no bloggers among…

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Ears on Their Heads, But They Dont Hear

Bremer-Murray: I showed it to my daughter, and she couldn’t stop crying. She said, “It literally took my breath away, Mom. I can’t believe I’m crying like this.” And she’s not overly spiritual. It really affected me. Di Sabatino: I’m amazed at the ability this has to reach out to people who are not really…

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Sunday Experience No. 2

Stations of the Cross: Here is the first of 14 installations that make up a journey of contemplation. The “Icons of Easter” was created a few weeks ago in London by some friends of mine in London. (Thanks Si) and it is still available to the public. You probably cant get to London but you…

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Sunday Experience No. 1

“Its a beautiful day!” (Bono) and its the perfect day to fess up our manifold sins and wickedness and let God clean us up. “We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed, against thy Divine Majesty, provoking most justly…

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Family occasions

– My Dad’s birthday today, April 16th, his first one up in heaven. He passed away last December. – My brother-in-law Shane turns 40 on the 24th in Australia. My sister wrote us into her creative invitation (Party for Shane.doc) – My Mum had a birthday March 31st and I was traveling and didn’t call…

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Righteous Men and Eating Meat

My butcher let me in his huge freezer this week. We discussed the dead animals hanging there and ooohhhheed and aaahhheed at the aging rib roast that, after 17 days of hanging, had gained some character. Can’t beat a rib roast of grass-fed Aberdeen Angus from Scotland – really . . . it doesn’t get…

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The Carson Chronicles – Where Now?

Short answer? Go here to Jesus Creed and follow his series. Have fun. Bye! Long answer? Yikes – I didnt realize my open blog post to Don Carson would get so much attention. People are asking what now? and where now? Here is what I am thinking. . . I was reading Acts 15 in…

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EmergAnt.:4 New Media Fluency

The minds of the emerging generation are being shaped by the computer screen more than the television screen. We see things in layers and loops and links and labyrinths. We do not see new things replace old things (like video clips in a linear movie) but we see them find their place in nested layers.…

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An Open Blog Post for Don Carson 1.1

[1.1 update: I wish I had chosen a better name and genre for this. An open post should only be used after interaction, and i did not get any email response from my requests in Sept 2004 – a better and less threatening post title would have been “Some questions I Would Ask Dr Don…

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Blogger Getting Sued

If Hank Hanegraaff is successful in suing blogger William Alnor for his comments about Hanks fundraising letter, then Hank will have discovered a faster way of raising money for his ministry. Maybe the rest of us bloggers should start putting money into an account to be prepared for the day when . More at SmartChristian.com…

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Ross Rodhe on leadership

“Stewardship is about service and not doing what is necessarily in our own interest. This is in direct contrast with the typical paradigm of the use of power in business which is leadership. Stewardship moves power and choice down and to the edge of the organizational chain where actual work is done.” Ross Rodhe Ross…

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Tamara’s birthday party today

Tamara is celebrating her 3rd birthday party tonight, even though she turned 3 a week or so ago. We were traveling and it was more convenient to have it now with us all here. She is the most independent of our children – today she cooked her own macaroni!!! Her big present? Two kittens named…

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AKingdomSpace Turning 3

On April 19, A Kingdom Space turns 3 years old. AKingdomSpace is a global weblog with about 40 contributors from around the world. It was the first of its kind in April 2003 and none of us have wanted to shut it down, even when the conversation slowed at times. Many of the original bloggers…

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