Blog Tour: From the Garden to the City

Note: If you want to follow along with the Blog Tour for this book, follow this link to the ChurchM.ag site. Several years ago I attended presented at BibleTech 2011 and sat in on a session led by John Dyer. I was immediately impressed. John highlighted things that I wanted to briefly touch on during…

A Son of Thunder

One of the most compelling reasons I head down to Williamsburg as often as I do is the bookstore located in the Williamsburg visitor’s center. I love browsing the shelves, speaking with the excellent manager, and taking home a stack of books heavier than I can carry. Some times when I head down to the…

The five year lag

The other day I had a brief twitter conversation with @johndyer (whom all my readers should follow) about technology in the Church. John often hears complaints that churches are “five years behind the rest of the world” technology-wise and, being a thoughtful technologist remind the complainers, “Look, its 2011 and George Lucas has JUST gotten…

Re-purposing and expanding

The 4 year old router Central purchased is starting to get a bit flaky.  The hardware of the router is actually pretty good, but the firmware has always been terrible (and never updated).  As the demands of our network have gotten more and more, the bugginess of the firmware has popped up more and more….

A home for some wonderful saints

One of the blessing of pastoring at Central Baptist is the near by locale of our denomination’s retirement home, Riverview Estates. As a pastor, I’ve been to many retirement homes over the years, and Riverview remains the only home I’ve ministered in that I don’t leave depressed. The staff and residents work together to make…

Revelations

I love this photo from our Williamsburg trip, so I made a comic about it. It gave me a chance to play with a new release of Strip Designer.