My brain never stops thinking about how the church can leverage technology to fulfill her mission (preach, teach, serve, expect).  Let’s face it, the Gutenberg Press was a GAME CHANGING piece of technology and there is NOTHING that has leveraged it more than the Bible.

The local church needs to be more like a kitchen than a buffet.  Some people want to come to church to get fed, I want them to come to church and get hungry!

• Hungry for the Word
• Hungry to love selflessly
• Hungry to serve with abandon
• Hungry to give generously
• Hungry for the supernatural work of God’s Spirit in and through their lives

Instead of people coming to expect a buffet of ministry (more…)

This is hilarious.  Maybe a little too honest.  What do you think?

Click the image to go to the site!  Warning, bring your sense of humor.

I have been using Facebook Status for a while now, not religiously like some, but every now and again.  Due to peer pressure I signed up for Twitter the other day and added the Widget to my blog.  Within two days of using Twitter here is what I’ve found:

• The Widget designed for Typepad totally slows the page load of my blog (due to Twitter problems I believe)
• Twitter was down all morning

So for the most part Twitter has been a pain in the keaster.  I figured out a way to use the RSS feed from my FB Status updates instead and am achieving the same results, only less trouble.  Here’s a nice wiki if you’re interested in getting the RSS of your FB Status.

Could we be so fortunate?

Link: Apple 3G iPhone at a Discounted Price? – Mobiletor.com.

Apple 3G iPhone at a Discounted Price?

If you are in charge of you churches website, following this link may be discouraging. Take heart though, LifeChurch.tv is only at 54th.

Link: Top 80 Church Websites | churchrelevance.com.

Top 80 Church Websites

Below you will find Church Relevance’s favorite church websites. Chosen for design, usability, and innovative ideas, we hope that these websites will also inspire you.

This article talks about some cool updates Apple included in its latest release of Leopard.  I had the updated but was unaware of some of the new functionality.  If you’re running OS X, this is a must read.

Link: Macworld | Editors’ Notes | 10.5.2 update shows Apple listens to users.

Over the years, Apple periodically comes under fire for not listening to its customers—specifically, for deciding on particular features (or a lack thereof) and then sticking by its guns regardless of the reaction. Although some of this criticism is off-base, some of it is spot-on.

If you haven’t been to www.woot.com GO!  It’s weird and cool, you have to experience it to understand.  I got suckered again today, I love "2 for Tuesdays".

I love outside the box and forward thinking people. Here’s a great example from Bobby Gruenewald of how forwarding thinking churches and leaders can leverage current (and future) technology to benefit the cause of the Kingdom.

Link: Apple TV Take 2 at LifeChurch.tv : swerve.

The move helps to propel the convergence of the Internet and television. This move makes it much easier and very cost effective for churches (or individuals) to deliver content to the living room. It is pretty much free to build and deliver a video and/or audio podcast of your church’s teaching.

Does this mean a huge drop in price for Blu-Ray players over the next year? I hope so.

Link: HD DVDs Fall Like Dominoes – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog.

So what appeared to be a stalemate may, with one relatively small move by Warner, now turn out to be a quick victory for Sony. The fight between the systems has hurt studios, electronics makers and consumers. And I suspect a winner — any winner — will be welcomed by all sides (except Toshiba and Microsoft, a key partner).

I just noticed that Apple stock is doing very well.  In fact, today was the first day ever that it traded at over $200 (Apple Trades at $200 for First Time).  I read that post as I sat at my kitchen table and edited my family Christmas movie using iMovie ’08 (primary editing), iMovie HD (Slow Motion editing), iTunes (browsing for just the right music), GarageBand (adding chapters for iDVD-didn’t know you could do that? check this post out "Unlocking iMovie ’08", and finally iDVD.  What I won’t be using is iWeb…  It kind of bums me out that with all of Apple’s creativity and resource they can’t come up with a web app that even comes close to holding a candle to what’s already out there.  The vast majority of people are going to use MySpace, Virb, TypePad or Blogger for blogging, Flickr or Picasa for photos and YouTube or Google Video for video uploads.  Alas, Apple hasn’t perfected their iLife suite maybe next year.