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Fourteen years of thinking out loud about faith, ministry, technology, and what happens where they meet.
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2015
Where No Man Has Gone Before
I’m a space nut. For the first time in human history, we’ll be visiting Pluto tomorrow. And you can watch. This from Business Insider:
If everything goes according to plan, a NASA spacecraft, called New Horizons, will fly by Pluto at 7:49 am ET. New Horizons is the first spacecraft in history to ever visit Pluto, and it’s been a long time coming after 9 years in space. NASA will stream live countdown coverage of the event starting at 7:30 am, followed by a briefing on the mission from 8:00 to 9:00 am ET.
I’ll be watching.
12 Things You Should Know About the Apple Watch
Having just gotten an Apple Watch, I disagree with about 75% of this article, especially this:
Don’t buy the Apple Watch (yet) unless you are a developer/designer who needs to develop for it. I’ve tasked myself to fully integrate the Apple Watch into my every day in order to understand it’s full potential. To my surprise, the process of doing so felt a little bit like a burden since I had to constantly remind myself to actually USE it in order to form my opinion.
Read Tobias van Schneider’s entire article over at Medium.
5 Things You Need to Know About Bible Translations
Excellent point about Bible translations that I'd never thought about from Wes McAdams: Because our English language is constantly changing, we will ALWAYS need new translations that help the text to maintain the correct meaning in the…
Read on →Tears on His Bible
My personal struggles are not unique, and they do not need to be pitied. Preachers cry. Preachers worry. Preachers fail. Preachers struggle. Preachers hurt. They need prayers, encouragement, patience, and grace.
Powerful stuff from Wayne Jones over on his blog.
Markdown Cheat Sheet
If you've listened to Ministry Bits for any amount of time and you have read anything about how I like to handle text, you'll know that I love to write in Markdown. And Beegit has an excellent little cheat sheet I saw today for help in…
Read on →The Headphone Enigma
Recently I've been on a quest for the perfect headphones. I've been traveling a little bit more in the last year and didn't want to spring $300+ for a stereo system in my car, and I've realized that I could just headphones and be just fine…
Read on →Facebook Isn't The Problem
Excellent thoughts from Michael Whitworth on the social media firestorm over the last week: What if Facebook became a global platform where Christ was glorified in all things? If only people had the common sense to represent themselves in…
Read on →As A Minister: Why You Should Care About What Apple Said This Week
Monday in San Francisco, Apple kicked off WWDC, their Worldwide Developers Conference. As a minister, why should you care about such things? I'll give you few reasons why. The iPad is Changing. There may be some new products on the…
Read on →Spark by Readdle Wins the Battle for iOS Email
Let's just face it: email stinks. But Spark by Readdle hopes to make you like your email again. Ever since Apple opened up iOS a few years ago to include third-party email clients, there have been no shortage of good and sometimes great…
Read on →Transitioning
Leaving a job you love is hard. Leaving a job you love at a church is harder. One the kids said so honestly in my last Bible class this Wednesday night: "It's hard to say goodbye because you're used to them." My soul and spirit have gotten…
Read on →May The 4th Be With You: Don't be a LUKEwarm Christian
What does it mean to be a LUKEwarm Christian? (See what I did there?) According to Francis Chan, there are 18 ways that you can tell a lukewarm Christian. Wow. 1\. Lukewarm people attend church fairly regularly. It is what is expected of…
Read on →Review: The New Macbook, and Why It Might Be The Perfect Tool for Ministers (In Two Years)
I've recently had a chance to spend some time with one of Apple's new Macbooks. That's right, just Macbook . No Macbook Air, no Macbook Pro. Just Macbook . It's clear that Apple is pushing the envelope and showing us the future when it…
Read on →Why I Don't Care About What's Happening in Indiana
I don't care at all about what's happening in Indiana. And that's no April Fool's joke. Why? Because it doesn't matter. "How dare you, Chad! It DOES matter! The very foundation of our religious freedom is at stake!!" No, it's not. "If we…
Read on →The Absolute Truth
Back to Work 213: That's Not Where Rogue Goes! Merlin Mann & Dan Benjamin on 5by5.tv I sat in astonishment, with my mouth hanging open. I had just played the above 2-minute excerpt from a podcast I listen to from above (take a listen if…
Read on →Daily Devotionals with Remind + Day One [VIDEO]
Apps these days, man. It's amazing what they can do. Now you can do a daily devotional that people can subscribe to with nothing more than your iPhone. We started a Daily Devotional called 15for15 - we take the first 15 minutes of every…
Read on →Ten Years with the Mac: My Most Valuable Tool in Ministry
My first Mac - a Mac mini desktop. 2005. People are always asking me: "why should I use a Mac?" I get calls from youth ministers, ministers, and church workers of all types about why they should go to a Mac. There's no really simple answer…
Read on →The Most Wonderful Product in the World
On Tuesday Apple announced the biggest quarterly earnings any company ever has in the history of, well, companies. It is amazing to me how much some of these companies make. With $74 billion in revenue, Apple has the most profitable…
Read on →2014
The Holy Bible, Version 2.0
I, like many others, were saddened and frustrated by Fourth Avenue Church of Christ's indulgence of a very talented young woman being put in the pulpit this past Sunday. The leadership at Fourth Avenue is obviously speaking where the Bible…
Read on →Racism and the Church
My wife and I often talk about the differences between our childhoods growing up. She grew up in a small suburb of Indianapolis while I grew up in the heart of the south in Huntsville, Alabama. We often talk about racism and the attitudes…
Read on →The Big Switch
View fullsize All right, I've been hinting at this for a while, but I did it. I finally did it. I switched over to Android. Now, I'm not Android-exclusive by any means (I still have my iPad mini), and I'll never give up my precious Mac,…
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