John Saddington is one of my online heroes. He just recently launched a new blog, “tentblogger.com” where he is continually giving advice to those of us who are continuing on the tradition of blogging.
He gave me some good insight into some issues with my blog:
What do YOU think?
While I was in Indianapolis for FUEL 2010, one of my ministry-peers and friend – Heath Mullikin asked me for an interview about my first couple of months of ministry. He, too, had recently (within the last couple of months) transitioned from full-time youth ministry to leading his first church. The conversation was terrific and we captured it on ‘digital’ film.
Heath is also featuring this interview on his website: chaseyourlion.com
Nearly everyday something that my new HTC EVO (Sprint) phone can do makes me feel empowered and excited to have such a piece of technology in my pocket.
Last week I had a trip to Indianapolis that was going to interfere with a package being delivered to my church office. We don’t have anyone else in the church building during the day usually, so I was a bit concerned with making sure that Mr. FedEx would still deliver the package and that I could have someone come and pick it up instead of it being left outside to be trashed by the weather.
Enter, “Parcels“. After a quick search for Android apps that deal with package-tracking, I stumbled upon Parcels and with a simple touch-click was downloading and installing.
Parcels instantly allowed me to enter in my tracking information (that the shipper had previously provided me via e-mail) and “add” this package to my list of packages I wanted to track. The app provides support for tracking our major U.S. delivery services including FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, and even allows us to skip the “who” and enter in information for anything coming from Amazon.com!
Once the information was entered, Parcels immediately began tracking my package and offered to keep me posted via alerts sent directly to my phone and even allowed me to choose how often it would attempt to update the status of my package!
Because of Parcels, I was able to make my trip to Indianapolis, keep instant-track of my package and note within 10-minutes of its delivery and call and ask someone to pick it up at the door for me!
Interested in downloading Parcels for your Android OS Phone? Click here!
A few days ago, I was sent a copy of the DVD, “Christianity, Cults & Religions” to sample and review from Rose Publishing. This afternoon I made some time to sit and watch through the first of six lecture-based studies and was very impressed.
The lecturer, Paul Carden is extremely knowledgeable and easy-to-understand. The first session gives a well-grounded Biblical basis for a study of this nature and Carden gives ample reasoning for why Christians today need to go through a study of this nature.
I am already planning on using this study in my adult Sunday school class in a few weeks.
The DVD curriculum includes six 30-minute lectures from Carden as well as a supplemental DVD with a PDF of the Leader’s Guide which can be printed and used in the classroom setting.
The DVD retails for $29.99 and is available for purchase here if you’re interested.
Here is a promotion-video for the DVD-based study:
From the product description: “Paul Carden, one of the most respected specialists in this field, has spent 30 years researching, writing and broadcasting on the topics of cults and new religions. He is the general editor of the best-selling cults comparison chart, Christianity, Cults & Religions.”
Rose Publishing sent me a couple copies of Carden’s “Cults Comparison Chart” that I am giving away here on stevansheets.com
To be entered in a drawing to receive one of these glossy comparison charts, simply comment below leaving your contact information and I’ll pick the winners by November 1st. The comparison chart is available on Amazon.com for $3.99, but you can potentially get one sent to you FREE simply by commenting on this blog post! Check out the comparison chart’s description over at Amazon.
Here is a video showing the chart’s usefulness:
We are having a great time at FUEL. We have found an excellent mix of “funny” and “serious” for this event, I think.
You want funny? How about a video of my good friend Heath Mullikin doing a monologue about Daylight Saving Time?
You want serious? How about the first session’s message video from Dave Bever?
