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What a Wonderful Time to Need a MacBook
The new MacBook Neo. Image from Apple. I was not optimistic about this year in technology. For good reasons. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are buying up every sing RAM chip they can to face their ever-growing processing demands for…
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A.I. and the Minister
Several years ago I was sitting down with Dan Winkler. This was around 2017 or so when Dan was speaking here at Graymere. Dan has been preaching longer than I've been alive. I asked him this question, knowing for sure what I thought he…
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What Mac Should You Buy?
The all-new M2 Macbook Air. Mac Buying Guide • Fall 2022 Around this time of year, I usually get a lot of calls and texts with that very question - “What Mac should I buy?” It’s gotten a little more confusing as of late because of the…
Read on →On Handwritten vs. Digital Notes
Bible, Bellboy Sleeve with Field Notes notebook, and iPad mini 6 with Pencil. I have been a note-taker since college. Before then, I have no idea how I got by without taking notes. Up until recently, all of my note taking has been…
Read on →How Making a YouTube Video Helped Me Cope with My Father's Death
Last month, I made a YouTube video on my channel about my Dad’s Every Day Carry (EDC). I thought this was perfect since I was trying to deal with his passing in a positive way and that’s what I talk about on my channel anyways. I don’t…
Read on →I'm Loving the Vivaldi Browser
My Vivaldi tab bar. I have a love/hate relationship with Safari on the Mac. I absolutely refuse to use Chrome for a number of reasons (data privacy, battery consumption, etc.). But I love Chrome's simple design and extensions. Firefox is…
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An Education Minister Goes to a Preacher's Conference
As an Education Minister now for going on 7 years, I haven't yet been able to find a good conference just for ministers who serve in Education roles. I have to go to different conferences specifically for preachers and youth ministers and…
Read on →The M1 Pro and Max Change Everything for Creatives
Apple today released newly-designed MacBook Pros with brand new M1 "Pro" and "Max" chipsets. For creatives, this changes everything. No longer held down by Intel, Apple has been allowed to "unleash" it's in-house silicon to heights that it…
Read on →Christian Podcasts I Recommend
I feel like I've had a lot of people message me or seen a lot of people asking about "Christian" podcasts to listen to. While it's relatively easy to find podcasts about anything you want to listen to, it seems difficult to find good…
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Apple’s New M1 Macs: Explained!
If you happen to be a non-techie and don’t follow tech news, you may have heard the hubbub around Apple’s new Macs with M1 chips and you may wonder what that means. Basically, they’re really great and you should get one if you need a new…
Read on →Our Faith and Our Politics
Several people have reached out to me and told me that this lesson, both before and after the election, has helped them. I'm very appreciative and thankful for that. I hope this lesson helps you as much as it helped me studying about
Read on →Containers in Firefox Has Changed The Way I Work
Do you ever need to log in to the same service or site but don’t want to have to log out and log back in every time, still using the same browser? Me too. I don't know if it's a new feature or not, but I was listening the the recent…
Read on →My iPad Home Screen, May 2020
I haven't been able to use my iPad Pro 11 (2018) nearly as much as I've wanted these past few months, largely because I'm chewing through a ton of videos and graphics every week during this virus. But last week, I was able to dust off the…
Read on →Ministry Bits S4E6: Figuring Out How to Swim with Jason Helton
The charming Jason Helton joined me on Ministry Bits this week to talk about a lot of stuff, but mainly church tech and outreach during a pandemic. This is a good one.
Coronavirus Could Kill Consumer Christianity
In this fantastic article by Brett McCracken, he argues that some of the potential positive effects of COVID-19 is that it’s likely to kill off “consumer Christianity” in mainstream churches - in effect, boiling down the excess. He also…
Read on →Apple Buys Dark Sky
Dark Sky, one of my favorite weather nerd apps, has sold to Apple today. Guess I’ll be using Weather next year.
Time For Everyone to Learn How to Stream
The excellent Tyler Stalman is back with a new episode of his podcast, this time talking all about about stream with the master of streaming, Alex Lindsay.
If you want to get behind not just the how but the why of streaming, give this show an hour of your time.
Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Status Page
If you’d like to be totally freaked out - I mean geeked out, of course - then check out Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Status Page. It will both amaze and humble you for several minutes at least while you’re waiting on your third bowl of ramen to cook. It will not, unfortunately, check toilet paper inventory.
Educational Resources for Ministry
Cold Harbor Road Curriculum This curriculum is 5 years of Old & New Testament adaptable to almost any grade in Pre-K and Elementary. They feature tie-ins and outlines for every book of the Bible. It’s over 1,000 pages of great places to…
Read on →Ministry Tools
Below is the list, links and slides of all the gizmos and gadgets that I shared at the Freed-Hardeman Lectures on Monday, February 3, 2020. Services - Amazon Prime • $99/year • amazon.com/prime - Igniter Media • Starting at $19/month •…
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