In recent months, I’ve been using iAnnotate in my sermon prep. iAnnotate is an iPad app that reads and marks up PDFs. Before this app, I printed out the scriptures I planned to use in my sermon. As I read over the text, I’d mark it up with a highlighter, marking keywords and phrases, and… Continue Reading »
Last November, I wrote a post on Building a Church Website With WordPress. In that post, I discussed the basic steps for setting up a church website using WordPress.org’s software. I also talked about using Headway Themes, a theme framework that uses an innovative “visual editor” to build and design websites with WordPress. As I… Continue Reading »
I’ve written about my long-time search for a better way to manage time and tasks: Task Management, Task Management 2.0, and Time Management. My latest stop on this journey is the iPad app, 2do. As I’ve stated before, my journey started with a Franklin Day Planner back when I was in college. Over the years,… Continue Reading »
Last Thursday evening, I discovered that our blog had been hacked earlier in the day. But this wasn’t the first time it’s been hacked. A few months ago, the site went several weeks with files infected by malware before I learned about it. And our first encounter with malware occurred last May, when our webhost… Continue Reading »
WordPress is a great option for church websites. It’s especially a good option if your church doesn’t have a web designer or the resources to hire someone to build a site. Even if you have the personnel and the resources, WordPress is still a great option. WordPress began as a blogging platform, but over the… Continue Reading »
Earlier this year, Kindle ebook sales at Amazon.com reportedly surpassed sales of both hardcovers and paperback print editions, combined. That development happened without any help from me—mainly because I have so many printed book on my reading pile! I bought my first ebook a couple months ago (the new Bible translation, Common English Bible). Besides… Continue Reading »
Our blog has morphed over the years. It started out as a place to post notes/summaries of our weekly sermons. Later, we reflected on classroom experiences at Asbury while working on D.Min. degrees. In those days, we didn’t do much personal/family blogging. That changed after we started pursuing our first adoption from Korea. Looking at… Continue Reading »
Iwrote a week ago that I had recently started using Twitter, a micro-blogging service (posts are limited to 140 characters). Since I started using Twitter, I’ve been comparing options for using Twitter (view my Twitter page here). So, for the benefit of people who may be searching for other alternatives, I thought I’d post my… Continue Reading »
Too often we get so comfortable with what’s familiar that we stop looking for other ways, including better ways, of doing things. We live by the cliché, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” (actually, I like “If it ain’t broke, break it!” better!). We settle for less and it stifles our growth. But, years… Continue Reading »
For the first few years of the life of this blog, we posted very few photos. That began to change with the referral of Ethan when we (reluctantly) posted one of his first photos. So I thought I’d blog about the tools we use for posting photos. When we first started using WordPress, the platform… Continue Reading »