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RSS Feeds

IndyChristian.com has a good starting point for understanding RSS feeds. It’ really quite simple, but still many people who read blogs regularly aren’t using them. Of course there are lots of additional points/questions to be made, but this entry gives you a good overview.

When people refer to RSS they are usually refering to a file located on a website (usually blogs) that contains information about recent posts that can be used by RSS aggregators

I personally read all my blogs through an aggregator – I enjoy it a lot more than going to 30 different websites a day. And if I don’t have time to read them, my reader will simply store the new messages until I have time to get to them all.
Speaking of aggregators and readers, here’s a few questions for you – my readers:
Please respond with the comment button below (or if you’re clueless you can send me an e-mail):
1. How often do you visit my blog?
2. Do you use an aggregator or RSS reader?
3. How many other blogs do you read regularly?
4. What makes mine different?
5. How did you first find or hear about my blog?
Thanks for reading and I hope each of you have found something enjoyable in my random ramblings.

laziness subsides

I’m feeling really lazy tonight.
I came home, plopped down in my chair and fell asleep.
I’m laying in my bed now catching up on tons of blogs that I’ve missed this week. And its getting darker and darker in my house and I’m too lazy to get up and turn on a light.
But there is a growing hunger in my stomach so eventually I will have to get up and find some real food. All I’ve eaten today is sweets (you’ll have to look for that post) I’m even too lazy to link to it. Geeze.
I wish we had a greater variety of food options in Belton. I’m too lazy to drive to Temple to have Wendy’s or Chick-Fil-A.
Good thing it’s Friday and good things it’s the weekend.
I may have some cool “job news” coming soon. We’ll wait and see. Just don’t ask my boss about it.

Youth Ministry for Big People

I’m not going to lie – this fires me up!
Church Marketing Sucks points to a story from Willow Creek about using multi-generational strategies in their church.

Fannie Hamilton sat among teenagers during the Sunday service. She used her left hand to hold up her stroke-affected right hand in praise, belting out the words to ‘My Glorious’ by Delirious. A few minutes later, she stood next to a 16-year-old, who joined her in belting out the words to ‘Great Is Thy Faithfulness.’ She was a small group leader in our youth ministry at the age of 82.

I’m fired up. That really gets me going to see that image in my head.

effective web ministry notes: eMinistry Resources :: how to have an effective online ministry

effective web ministry notes writes, “Yesterday DJ at the eQuip ForMinistry blog posted some great eMinistry Resources ” check out the list, eministry notes lists them all. I read a number of them regularly and those I don’t – I imagine I’ll start.