Real quick – i will expand later Our furlough in on. We arrive in USA Oct 5 and will be touring USA until November 1.
Read MoreRoadtesting Google’s Blog Search
Someone smack me if i start using it! Google Blog Search was released an hour ago. Official site is blogsearch.google.com and there’s a good post at SixApart. As for me and my house, I just don’t like the idea of the Almighty Google knowing so much, remembering so much, and having so much power. Being…
Read MoreHome-Church [UPDATED]
UPDATE: OK – I got fooled by an purely satricial article that i found thru AddisonRoad – thanks Bob Hyatt who commented twice before I changed this. But rather than just delete the whole post and save face, the article called “More Kids Being Home-Churched’ makes me wonder if the term “home-church” will be a…
Read MoreThe Spirituality of Torrent
Torrentocracy announced a Web API that will allow bloggers to manage their own dang torrents. BoingBoing says Ecto will support it soon. This will really help with distributing large video files. I have heard of Blog Torrent who may have already offered this, but have not had time to try it out. If you have…
Read MoreRichard Mouw on Mere Calvinism
“If there’s one thing that Calvinists are especially not good at, it’s explaining themselves in a way in which non-Calvinists could possibly understand them.” A-Team blog, who have a great review of “Calvinsim in The Las Vegas Airport” by Fuller Seminary’s Richard Mouw. Technorati Tags: books
Read MoreWill We Have Mega-Cyberchurches?
Hi, Andrew. hope you are fine. right now we are working on the German edition of Roland Allen’s Missionary Methods. He writes a lot about strategic centres…and defines them geographically. Could you write a (longer) comment on what strategic centres are / can be in the present world (cultural centres, virtual centres?) and what this…
Read MoreBad Software Day
– Got up really early and tried to get the hang of Adobe Indesign so i could write my book with it – and i got so frustrated that I am switching back to Word. – Tried to demux and mux a video with FFmpegX and am now totally confused. – Entourage keeps crashing so…
Read MoreThemepunks: Cory’s Novel Starts Today
“You’re going to help Americans who lost their jobs in your factories buy goats and cellphones?” “We’re going to give them loans and coordination to start businesses that use information, materials science, commodified software and hardware designs, and creativity to wring a profit from the air around us.” Themepunks, Cory Doctorow Starting today, Salon will…
Read MoreSoliton
Soliton just finished up in Ventura, California. They invited me to speak but I had too much travel racked up and said 2006 would probably work. It sounded good, though – Si Johnston spoke there, as did the Viking Pagitt and quite a few other bloggers. I should be there next year. Next conference worth…
Read MoreBible Tools and Dashboard Widgets
“The Widget for verse references is definitely on the way, but its functionality will be somewhat limited.” (Helen Brown) in an interesting discussion with Accordance developers about utilizing Tiger’s spotlight function. In the meantime, Logos works towards a big December 2005 release of their OSX Bible Tools. I am waiting for MacSword to have the…
Read More9/11 And Now New Orleans
Churches today in USA will probably pause to remember what happened 4 years ago in New York. I wrote down some thoughts on Sep 11, 2002, and mentioned our friend Derek Chapman who went to New York the day before – God told him to go – and so he flew out of London on…
Read MoreChurch: Missional or Traditional?
Adam from Thoughts From The Back Seat gives us two scenarios of church, inspired by Emerging Worship; (Dan Kimball): Missional . . .or . . . Traditional
Read MoreMark Taylor’s photography
Mark Taylor is at my home right now. He has some great photos in his album that he has never told anyone about so . . . here are a few of them. The rest are here. Technorati Tags: orkney, photos
Read MorePaying for QuickTime Pro. Again.
I just paid for Quick Time Pro . . . again. I hate paying again. But I need the pro features to work with version 7. And I am looking forward to test driving the new H.264 codec. I have been using Quicktime Pro for 5 years. Its amazing what you can do with just…
Read MoreThe Spirituality of Not Blogging
Si Johnston (photographed here in Orkney) has a great post on "The Perils of Blogging" in which he adds a good balance to my Greenbelt Seminar post "The Spirituality of Blogging" Si says bloggers can lack:1. activity 2. reality 3. touch 4. depth 5. nurture [read about them] At my seminar, I also talked about…
Read MoreCT on New Monasticism
This is Shane Claiborne. When I met him in 1998 (99?), he had dyed spots all over his hair and the Mafia had just donated a truckload of bikes to his ministry, The Simple Way. He came over for Greenbelt last year and should come back in 2006. Christianity Today has 2 articles on remonking…
Read MoreJosh McDowell on Small Groups
” . . . much of this meeting time is spent with people sharing their subjective ideas. Ideas born out of a post-modern worldview. . . If Christian leaders don’t take hold of the small group phenomenon it will take on a life of its own and redefine the church in a way that we…
Read MoreTim Keller Articles
Steve McCoy has them all laid out, ready to download and read. Check out “The Missional Church” and other Tim Keller classic articles.
Read MoreThe Poor
From Pastor Mike: “What is poverty? Not just locally, but in terms of our world. The globalrichlist gives a clear sense of what global poverty looks like. If you earn $50,000 Canadian a year the list will tell you that You are in the top 3.75% richest people in the world. There are 5,774,782,608 people…
Read MoreMission Shaped Church Online
Long have I waited for a resource of this calibre to be uploaded and freely available. Long has been my wait, because nothing short of a miracle can persuade the Church of England to release something freely without seeing the immediate benefit. But now that time has reached its fulness and the Men In Black…
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