One of the first objections I hear from pastors regarding the use of digital technology in worship is, “Then people will be too distracted, I want them to be completely focused on the sermon.” I don’t buy it, for several reasons. First, this makes the assumption that people ever were “completely focused on the sermon.” Well,…
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“Arrived” vs. “Arriving”
Two Sundays ago a friend at church handed me a black cardboard envelope and said, “You remember what CD’s are, right?” The envelope was a nicely packaged copy of Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball album. I had given a listen to the first single from the album a few weeks earlier (based on my friend’s recommendation) and…
Re-purposing and expanding
The 4 year old router Central purchased is starting to get a bit flaky. Â The hardware of the router is actually pretty good, but the firmware has always been terrible (and never updated). Â As the demands of our network have gotten more and more, the bugginess of the firmware has popped up more and more….
The hidden gem of OpenLP
At Central, we use the open source program OpenLP.org for our lyrics projection. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that some of the commercial apps have – but it’s simple, fast, and free. These are three great traits for a church running on a shoestring IT budget. OpenLP recently releases their 2.0 beta…
