Tech
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Equip Network Week Post #3: The New Shows
This week, we are sharing information about the newly formed Equip Network, which is a family of podcasts, all done by members of the churches of Christ. On Monday, we shared a brief history, which you can read here. Yesterday, we took a look at the three “flagship” programs, which you can read about here. Today, we want to share the remaining programs with you to which you can currently subscribe. Enjoy these 3 shows! ————————————————————————– Equipped Today (hosted by a different speaker each week) This is a wonderful addition to The Equip Network (TEN). Equipped Today is a brief daily devotional, designed to get your day started off on…
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Equip Network Week Post #2: The Three Flagship Shows
Yesterday, we shared the history and basis of The Equip Network. You can read that article here. Today, our goal is to let you know about the three shows that were around before the network started, and that are considered the “flagship” programs. ————————————— iPreach (hosts: Dale Jenkins and Adam Faughn) iPreach, as we mentioned yesterday, has been around longer than any other program on The Equip Network (TEN). With over 110 programs, brother Dale Jenkins and I have covered many different topics, and have had our share of growing pains with the technology. The purpose of iPreach is to “aid, enlighten, inform, and entertain” preachers. Each week, strive to…
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Equip Network Week Post #1: What Is This Thing?
As many of you know, I am a cohost on a weekly podcast called iPreach. Dale Jenkins and I started recording this podcast about 2 years ago, and we have now done over 110 episodes. Each week, we try to live up to the purpose of our show which is “to aid, enlighten, inform, and entertain preachers.” When Dale and I started iPreach, to be honest, we had no idea how long we would keep the program going. While we had a few “fuzzy” long range goals, we did not really know if anyone would listen consistently. All we knew was that we liked podcasts, and thought that we could…
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Sermon Transcript: “The Christian and Facebook”
On Sunday night, I preached a sermon entitled “The Christian and Facebook.” Later, I posted something about it on (of course) Facebook, and several said they would like to see the notes. Before you read the transcript, let me share this information with you. Some time ago, my friend Neal Pollard preached a sermon at Bear Valley in Denver on this topic. I listened to his sermon several weeks ago to start getting ideas for mine. Later, he turned that sermon into an article for the Gospel Advocate that I also read. I say that to say this: several similarities exist between this sermon and his sermon/article, though I did…
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2010 Camp Video
Each year after we return from camp, we have an awards night following our Sunday evening worship service. We hand out our awards for best boy and girl campers, best Bible students (boy and girl), camper’s choice award, and our sports awards. We are also treated to a wonderful video that features so many pictures from camp. For the past two years, Mike Markwood has put this video together, and always does a tremendous job! The video is below in two parts, and I hope you will enjoy some memories from Valley View Camp 2010: “Wii Believe.” Part 1. Length: 18:40 LRCOC BIBLE CAMP 2010 VOLUME 1 from Mike Markwood…
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Another Blog?
Maybe you noticed our blog looks a little different. Okay, maybe it looks a lot different. There is a reason for that, and it’s not just the need to change. We have started another blog. Our other blog is going to focus on pictures of our family, and will be updated irregularly. You’ll want to add it to your feed reader, though, so you can see all our updates. Most of the blog will be pictures of our kids as they grow up, and we hope they will enjoy seeing this over the years. Enjoy our hew site, “Our Memory Book,” by clicking here. Since that site has more of…
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7 Resources to Help You Control Your Media Consumption
We live in a media-saturated society. (Ironic that you just read that on a media device!) No matter what we might say, we cannot avoid media. From TV to books, from the Internet to movies, from music to talk radio, from magazines to newspapers, and in scores of other ways, we are constantly bombarded with messages. I like to interact with several forms of the media, but many Christians think that, since it’s entertainment, anything is okay. Such is not the case! Romans 1 ends by reminding us that we are not to take pleasure in them who are involved in acts of sin. So, when we allow ourselves to…
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Friday Links 101: Where Do the Links Come From?
Being out of town this week, I tried to stay up-to-date on my blog reader, but, I’ll admit, I wasn’t able to read each post closely. However, one of my goals this week was to drop a few blogs that have not updated in some time, while adding a few others. The more I use rss through my Google reader, the more I like getting articles and posts this way. While it is hard to read tons of posts in a word-for-word fashion, it is a great way to get a lot of information in one place. If you are unfamiliar with Google Reader (or “rss”), here are two things…
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A LOT of Ways Preachers Can Use Evernote
If you read our blog often at all, you know I love Evernote. The more I use this online tool, the more I like it. Evernote has become a way of life for me. If you don’t know what Evernote is, here’s a quick rundown. If you want to remember something in the online world, Evernote is your tool. What can you save? Here’s a partial list: typed notes, web clips, pictures, emails, tweets, scans, audio notes, and far more. Everything you put into Evernote then becomes fully searchable (by title, by tags, and by text), and you can retrieve this information anywhere you can be online. There is the…
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4 Desktop Applications that I Use Almost Daily
Nearly anyone uses a word processing program. Many use PowerPoint or KeyNote to make presentations. These, and other programs, are common programs that help us do our work. But there are countless programs you can download to your desktop to help with online functions. As much time as I spend on my computer, you might think I have dozens of these. Actually, I only have four! Here they are, and the reason I use them. iTunes. Okay, it might cheating a bit to list iTunes, but I use it for my information. I have only downloaded about a half-dozen songs in the years this program has been available. Instead, I…
