the musings of a tall man…
Crossfire Commandos has entered a video contest for a $100,000 grant that could give a significant boost their ministry. Every time the video is viewed it takes them one step closer to winning the contest.
Crossfire is a unique ministry to Memphis and they are doing great things with kids in a unique way. I promise you have never seen anything like this, and for an old Younglifer that is saying a lot.
[tags]ministry, Memphis, Crossfire, Crosscheck[/tags]
It seems hard to belive that the iPod turns 5 tomorrow. I still have my first generation iPod, though the HD crashed on it a few years ago. I lost it for a while but came across it just last week. I showed it to my kids and they acted like it was as obsolete as the casette tape commenting, “it is huge!”
How is it that only five years have passed since that white little box came into my life? The 1G iPod had a scroll wheel that actually physically moved, which by the way still feels better than the touch models today. I splurged when I bought mine and got the 10 gig version remarking that I would never be able to fill that up, only to regret that statement a few months later. The iPod has certainly become an icon of today’s culture in a very short period of time. Thus, happy birthday iPod, we are certainly glad to have you in our lives.
HT: Mac Daily News
Update: I found a great video of Job’s introduction of the iPod. Worth your time to watch. Amazing how the world changes so fast.
[tags]apple, ipod, itunes[/tags]
I have long been a huge fan of Pandora, loving it for its ability to find music that I am in the mood for. The added benefit is finding great new music that you have never heard before. However, every now and then I just want to run through music that I already know but don’t want to take the time to setup a custom playlist that fits the mood that I am in. Tangerine takes care of that issue, building a playlist of music based on different styles and beats of music contained in your library. So next time you are in the mood for Celtic music tune up Tangerine and tell it to start playing.
HT: TUAW
[tags]itunes, music[/tags]
Can you teach…sure…today?
This morning we were at Gibson’s Donuts on our weekly morning trek to worship when my cell phone rang. This is unusual for a Sunday morning so I knew that there must be a problem, somewhere. It was my Sunday school teacher asking if I could substitute for his substitute. Turn out, both he and the sub were sick and he was desperate. I promptly replied, “of course†and began to quickly wonder what in the world I was going to speak on.
I have been spending some time lately in the Westminster Confession of Faith and have returned on more than one occasion to read Chapter xii.
I was blessed this morning by having to teach, reminded that we are heirs with Christ, receiving all the rights as sons and daughters of the Kingdom.