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
I wrapped up the series “REAL CHURCH” this weekend with a sermon revolving around our church’s “Divine Focus” to Love God and Love People. I spent time focused on James 2:14-26 and the idea that it is NOT enough that we continue to worship the Lord inside the walls of our church, grow in faith, continue to disciple believers WITHOUT putting ACTION to our quest to LOVE PEOPLE.
I then tried to explain our version of the traditional “servant evangelism” that has continued to be a popular faith-action amongst evangelicals.
At the close of the service I passed out handfuls of “connect cards” to our families for them to have the opportunity to hand them out as they share the love of Christ in practical ways in our community. We are also working on some team-based opportunities in the near future for us to collectively LOVE PEOPLE in practical ways. I am more-than-excited about this emphasis!
Our connect cards:
I finally finished uploading all of the session videos to YouTube. Here they are in order:
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!
