I’m intrigued by this one for sure. Google TV is coming to a living room near you. While the idea for this type of TV isn’t new, it’s never had the Google name behind it.
Check the video and let me know what you think:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diTpeYoqAhc&feature=player_embedded
Definitely not sure how I feel about this one. A new site called Togetherville is aimed at being a social network for children. But also it seems to be aimed at getting families to network together as a family. Check out this NY Times article about Togetherville. Here’s a small excerpt from this article that stuck out to me.
“We teach kids from a very early age, never let your identity be online, never let anyone know who you are, but we’re teaching some bad things,” he said. “Kids don’t learn how to be accountable.”
Maybe it will be effective. The goal of helping children learn how to use technology seems like a great one. Just hope we’re not creating another arena for our kids to be in danger online.
carnival cruise ship 2, originally uploaded by narayananm.
This week you might see a shortage of posts this week because of a little trip that me and my wife are taking.
We will be chilling in the Bahamas for the week. Trying to figure out which excursions to take right now. So I need some advice.
Which excursions would your recommend to a friend?
The iPad arrived today and SURPRISE the geeks hate it, originally uploaded by PACMan3000.
Wanted to make a tech thursday comeback today. I’ve got a few ideas that are in my head for big reasons why you might want to think about getting an iPad for your Family, Student, or Children’s Ministry.
With Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii’s you are going to continue to have to buy discs to keep up with the latest and greatest trends. These discs cost between $30-$60. Over a year with multiple consoles to buy for and you are spending a good amount more for your consoles. With the iPad, you are paying a fraction of that. A lot of times those new and intense games are even free!
Here are a few examples:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdUznE15L30&feature=PlayList&p=F2810F8F6FC00662&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=11
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi_P4hTeSCE&feature=related
I’m sure you’ve heard about the iPad’s ability to have keynote and maybe even in the future ProPresenter will come out with some kind of app to use on the iPad. Someone please let Renewed Vision know! But building presentations or just using the iPad to present them is an excellent alternative to high end macbooks to run your Worship service experience.
When you are dealing with people, not everyone is going to be on the up and up. With the iPad, it would be extremely easy to store them in an area and secure them. Much more so that your laptops, Gaming Consoles, and maybe in some extreme cases desktops.
sort of cutting edge right now with everything that is available. +100 for being relevant to culture.
talk about a killer device for small groups. Gaming Device, Presentation Device, and a Bible all in one. Seriously Small Group Leaders what would you think about having an all in one device like this. Not to mention maybe having a database app, your ministry app from r04r to know and communicate what’s happening in your mininstry, and even notes to take prayer requests.
There are so many more uses for the iPad that are running through my mind like: having a database app to take attendance (even using numbers or pages to do so), your ministry app from r04r to know and communicate what’s happening in your mininstry, and even notes to take prayer requests. Some of which I’m not telling…..yet 
But here are a few that should get your mind going on why you should think about getting an iPad for your ministry.
I keep your love locked down, your love locked down., originally uploaded by Kelly West Mars.
Tonight I’m speaking at Varsity, the high school ministry here at Brookwood. I’m teaching on a series called Flirt by Room 1228. Great resource for student ministry stuff.
This passage has been stuck in my mind.
“As we talked about in our last two sessions, Jesus had been crucified and buried. Hope, air, and opportunity had been sucked out of the atmosphere. Now the disciples were huddled under lock and key because they had their love locked down Kanye West-style. Then all of a sudden, Jesus appeared by walking through a wall and surprising His disciples, and then He said, “Peace be with you.” Once again, as He had done in other appearances, Jesus turned desperation into hope and sorrow into joy. Most of all, He turned fear into peace.”
Man what a powerful story. The disciples are locked in a room because of fear after Christ had died. The fear of being crucified, made fun of, and probably some of them felt as if “Did I waste a lot of my life following this man?”
But in the middle of that locked room. Jesus appears and says what he said earlier in John’s book. “Peace be with You”. So in your life today. There might be some areas that are completely locked down for fear or doubt or maybe even they are painful. But allow God to enter into those locked down areas.
Let Jesus Unlock your Love Lock Down today.
So the other day I got a brand new Nikon D3000 Camera
I love to take pictures and capture moments in picture format. It’s one of my favorite things. So expect to see a lot more of my own photography gracing these posts in the coming months and years!!
Any tips on DSLR cameras? Any must know treatments for photos in photoshop?
First of all thanks for reading this blog. I am currently brainstorming the new direction for this blog in the coming year. So today I am asking you to participate in a survey to help me gauge the direction that I feel will be the most effective for my content. Unfortunately with a free account there is no thank you page after you complete the survey, so thanks beforehand for helping me by taking this survey.
st. thomas university football stadium, originally uploaded by Dan Anderson.
So it’s time for another good ole Faceoff Friday. Today’s choices:
Football
or
Basketball
Which is your favorite?
As I was watching the Marriage Ref, one of my new favorite shows, the other day, I discovered an interesting fact. It generally takes about 27 minutes for coffee to go bad. Now 30 minutes after it’s brewed sometimes it’s still ok. But, I think that we can all agree that coffee is best when it’s fresh.
A lot of times people become like old coffee. Instead of being filled with the Spirit of God, they soak up in all their boiling hot, rancid, mess of life and allow it to continue to churn and churn instead of releasing the pain and hurt and sin and ugliness and being filled with the Spirit of God.
So today get rid of that old, terrible, nasty, rancid, horrid, stuff in your life and find healing. Then be filled with the Spirit of God. Draw near to Him. Be filled.
And smell and taste the fresh filling of God.
