Out of the boat

Just added the WPTouch plugin to the site. Love it so far and I haven’t even done any customization yet.

Visit my blog on your mobile device (if you aren’t already) to see it in action.

Great job BraveNewCode!

Trying out Glue.

Well it has been a while. I think I’ll give it another go.

Had an email sent to me today from a member of our Men’s Ministy team at church. The subject read, Any complaints today….. watch this video PLEASE!!!. I have learnt over time that you don’t always open these kinds of emails, especially if the person is fairly new to the internet and email.

Why? Well, most of the newbies actually believe that:

• they will get a free ipod if they forward the email on to all of their friends
• Bill Gates will give them $100 for everyone that they send this email to
• that an amazing video will pop-up on their screen after they send this email to 100 people
• that they will be cursed if they break this chain
• fill in any other threat, prize or curse here

Anyways, I digress. This email came from someone who isn’t a newbie, and is someone whom I trust. He doesn’t send these types of emails, so this must be good.

The only thing Don wrote in the email was, “No words from me required… the video speaks for itself!” Here’s the video:

For more info about Nick, check out Life without Limbs or Attitude is Altitude.

Ward Gasque, a founding member of the faculty of Regent College, is English Ministries Pastor of Richmond Chinese Alliance Church in British Columbia, Canada.

He also runs Koinos Seminars (‘Good Theology Doesn’t Just Happen’), part of the KOINOS Certificate in Christian Foundations. The goal of the certificate is to make the essential tools of serious biblical and theological study available to busy adults. more info here

He wrote an article on September 19, 2008 entitled: The Multiplication of Bibles and the Decrease of Bible Knowledge.

I have thought this same thing quite frequently… though, probably not as in-depth as Ward has written. Myself, I have 3 Bibles: a NIV Study Bible, a NCV Daily Bible and a NLT Read though the Bible in a Year Bible!

Ward mentions a Gallup poll in 2000 where people were asked to name the Gospels and less than half  couldn’t name one! Asked for the 10 commandments and only 42% could name 5! I started to sweat a bit when I tried to list the 10 Commandments myself, and didn’t get very far… Ward is right, becuase we own so many Bibles, many of us think we are better informed than our ancestors, when the opposite is true.

Ward has his reasons for this decline in Bible knowledge:

1. The influence of TV (I would also add the Internet to this)
2. The decline of expository preaching in favor of relational preaching.
3. The decline of both the Sunday evening service and adult Bible classes.
4. Small groups ‘Bible study’ has very little ‘study’
5. The deluge of contemporary translations and editions.

Read the full article here