From this morning’s Bible study?
Why does it seem that the biggest and most publicized failings of Christians often come from those caught in the sins they’ve preached the most against?
Why does it seem that a churches with a “high standard” of righteousness in certain areas (i.e. pornography, drugs, alcohol, adultery etc) have many people who fall into the trap of sin in those very issues?
Month: July 2007
Looking for an audio engineer
Bent Tree Bible Fellowship in Carrollton, Texas is looking for a new audio director who will help the church transition from an analog audio system to a digital system (The Digidesign Venue).
It could be an exciting ministry for someone. Check out Church Video Ideas for more info.
I might be interested if it was closer and I didn’t love my church so much.
Which raises an interesting question. Should a church go outside it’s walls to hire a technical team, web designer, worship leader, secretary or other staff members? Or should a church look for people within the church already to fulfill those duties? Should positions be based solely on skill levels or more on the basis of availability and people who have caught on to the vision and goals of your church already?
I don’t know which I dislike more
When Laurie moved into our new place I moved my DSL with SBC/AT&T to her/our new place, along with my Linksys Wireless Router.
I never had a problem with it when it as at my old loft and I used my XP laptop.
But for some reason, Linksys and Mac don’t like each other. In fact despite their work on the iPhone I don’t think AT&T and Macs like each other either.
Laurie’s Mac works fine when it’s plugged into the router but everytime we tried to make it wireless it would suddenly screw up the Internet connection and both of us would be booted from the Internet.
It took several weeks and phone calls before I was able to finally get both of our computers running fine.
Then during our lazy Sunday afternoon the Internet went down. I don’t know what happened. But it went down. Good ole’ AT&T.
I worked on it for about 30 minutes and said forget it – I don’t want this headache right now.
I tried again later and we discovered we were back at square one. The Mac keeps booting the Internet connection.
Somewhere along the way, while trying to get the Internet back up, the router was reset and it apparently lost all the settings we had worked on to get the Mac talking to the router and Internet fine.
I worked on it later Sunday night, Monday evening and now again for nearly 3 hours tonight. And still no progress.
I guess I’m going to have to suffer through another tech phone call and being told to “be sure your router is plugged in correctly.”
Arrrgh.
Like I said, I don’t know which I dislike more… Linksys, AT&T or Macs. But considering my Gateway and Toshiba laptops with XP installed on them haven’t hick-up’d once since I turned the Mac off…. I think I know which one I’m leaning towards.
Huckabee’s online progress
From the Mike Huckabee campaign today (via email):
As a blogger for Huckabee, the campaign has asked me to share with you some insights into it’s online efforts. My firm managed the redesign of the campaign website www.mikehuckabee.com.
First, the campaign is headed in a postive direction online and in the third quarter you can expect continued, steady growth. That said there is obviously significant room for improvement.
The statistics below are a snapshot of some of the campaigns online activity. Without giving away too much they do indicate growing momentum.
A look at Mike Huckabee’s 2nd Quarter Online Results:
- 35% of 2nd quarter fundraising report came from online contributions
- 378% increase in number of unique online visitors over the first quarter (note: first quarter statistics are for February and March only, this still represents a sharp increase)
- 81.9% of dollars raised online came in last 6 weeks of quarter (post South Carolina debate).
- 42.3% of dollars raised online came in last 14 days of quarter.
- Bloggers for Huckabee list roughly doubled.
- The average contribution for the barber pole campaigns was $48 despite asking for minimum of $15. The barber pole technique and the obvious momentum gained from each successive debate performance resulted in a 404% increase in the number of online contributions.
Looking forward, the key to continued growth is building a vibrant list. The initial indications are good for this quarter. In the first two weeks of July, with the switch to www.mikehuckabee.com the campaign has seen a dramatic increase in traffic.
Later today, I will share with you some of the campaign’s online goals for the third quarter and discuss ways your blog can assist the campaign in reaching them.
Benoit had high testosterone levels
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Former pro wrestler Chris Benoit had elevated levels of testosterone in his system when he died last month, indicating he had recently injected the hormone, a GBI toxicological report released Tuesday shows.
In addition, the report said, Benoit, his wife and their young son all had traces of Xanax, a common tranquilizer, in their blood. Officials said the boy was sedated before Benoit killed him.
Benoit and his wife, Nancy, also had traces of hydrocodone, a narcotic pain medication, the report said.
Federal prosecutors have indicted Benoit’s personal physician, Phil Astin III of Carrollton, on seven counts of overprescribing medications to at least two unidentified patients. Officials have said Benoit is not one of those patients but the investigation into Astin continues. Astin is under house arrest in Carrollton after being released on $150,000 bond.
New magazines coming to North Texas
According to the Neotrib, Danny Gentry, a 1986 Italy High School graduate and current Midlothian resident, recently founded a company called FutureTex Publishing to bring several new publications to the North Texas Market.
Gentry is the son of former Italy Press owners and operators Bill and Mildred Gentry.
Gentry just launched his first magazine, Today’s Senior Magazine.
Today’s Senior Magazine will be available FREE in over 200 locations across the Metroplex. Look for it in your local banks, senior centers, retirement communities, restaurants, hospitals, physician’s and dentist offices, and many more popular senior destinations.
FutureTex Publishing was recently honored with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by the Midlothian Chamber of Commerce welcoming them to Chamber membership and introducing them to the area business community.
In addition to being the distributor of Today’s Senior Magazine, FutureTex is soon to be the publisher of a new magazine for north Texans — The Chalkboard. The Chalkboard is an education and family magazine designed to help bridge the gap between parents and schools.
It’s amazing when you think how saturated our market is with various media outlets compared to the population. Crazy I tell ya. Crazy.