Monday, September 19, 2005

Comes in 3s

WOW! Has it been almost 3 weeks since I last posted? Time flies by when the day job is demanding a lot of time, the computer is down for a week and preparation for 3 worship services is ongoing. We had some great morning worship services this past Sunday and the evening service we ordained 3 great men to the office of Deacon.

My computer going down was a blessing in disguise. Thank God all my hardware was not damaged for one thing. Upon rebuild everything was lost on my hard drive. (Word of warning about what partition software you use.) Now my computer performs as good as the day I bought it. Actually it performs better because the OEM partition and the poorly engineered, bundled software is history.

Well, that is my 3 main reasons for not posting. Plus I have been spending some time working on another blog. All I can say is “Life is hard but God is good”.

That’s a few 3s. This makes me think of the late, great Dale Earnhardt. In case you just fell off the turnip truck, his number was 3.

Due to my newly reconfigured computer I now have a whole new bundle of joy; I mean software to play with. Now let me recommend 3 excellent tools that will help you as a blogger. Two will help you with any text document, including e-mail, which you prepare.


  1. Blogger for Word -- I’m using it now. If would like more control over your text than what the post creator and editor on blogger.com can offer then this is the way to go. One benefit that I’m using in this post is a bulleted list. There are many, many more. I’m sure most of you are familiar with the capabilities of Microsoft Word.
  2. WordWeb Pro – WordWeb Pro is a fully functional dictionary and thesaurus that runs in you system tray. Therefore it is available for any document that you may want to check definition or synonym. In addition to definitions and synonyms this utility recommends adjectives, anagrams and similar words. Nice tool to have.
  3. Text Monkey PRO – What a very quick and adaptable utility Text Monkey PRO has proved itself to be. I believe it is one of the more invaluable tools that I have found when it comes to editing any document or text. This includes cleaning up e-mail and converting HTML. I can’t begin to tell you all the features and I don’t really have to because you can see all the features listed here.

I hope this short list helps you discover some excellent utilities to use for text if you didn’t know already.

I have some new audio and video editing software that I’m digging into next. Stay tuned.

Thursday, September 01, 2005

New Book & CD from Matt Redman



"Worship is a choice to be made in every circumstance of life and every season of the soul. Come rain or shine, come hardship or ease, come confusion or clarity, wise worshippers make it through the storms of life with a cry of 'Blessed Be Your Name' on their lips."
-- Matt and Beth Redman






I'm looking forward to picking up "Blessed Be Your Name" the book and "Blessed Be Your Name: The Songs Of Matt Redman Vol. 1" the CD.

Are We Indigenous Missionaries?

Anthony Coppedge has authored yet another thought provoking article on his blog.  The article is titled Does the Church Need AVL Technology?
Now I must confess at first I was confused because in the mobile data communications business AVL is an acronym for Automatic Vehicle Locator which uses GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to help pubic safety agencies, trucking companies or any other organization with a large fleet to keep track of their vehicles.  I thought “Why would a church need that?”  Anthony quickly clarified in the first paragraph that this AVL represents Audio, Video & Lighting.
Anthony sparked new avenues of thought for me as I’m now picturing my realm of using media as a mission field.  I attend a heavily missions oriented church so I may score points with my pastor by presenting our media ministry team as an indigenous missions team. [smile]  
Thanks once again Anthony for stoking the fire of my passion.