Church Resources
Church Resources and Blogs 1. http://stufficanuse.com – Tons of free resources, including sermon series and graphics, from Southeast Christian Church. 2. http://gameshowblog.com – Game ideas to play or edit in your youth group. Graphics included with most. 3. http://seeds.churchonthemove.com – Tons of free resources from [...]
Continue ReadingSimple Sermon Podcasting
We record three sermons and post them as an audio podcast a week. It’s draining! So if there is any chance for efficiency, I’m all about it! That being said, I think I may have found that solution. Back when podcasting first started, you needed a higher-end system dedicated to recording (so you wouldn’t get a hiccup), a quality [...]
Continue ReadingLighting Your Tech Booth
So I’ve been looking for some good desk lamps to put in our tech booths. We’ve tried the cheap Target lamps which lasted for a few years, but I had some qualms. They got hot (being quartz lamps), they got knocked off the desks often, and the lamps would continually burn out. After that, I found some old LittleLites laying in [...]
Continue ReadingYouVersion Reading Plans
I think it’s fair to say that most people have head of or used YouVersion or the Bible app on the phone. But it surprises me every time I talk with someone and they have no idea that reading plans and the tools that go along with it exist inside YouVersion. I’m going to do my best to quickly catch you up! For me, it’s tough [...]
Continue ReadingGlare-less iOS icons
Turns out you only need to add/alter one simple line to the info.plist file. 1 <key>UIPrerenderedIcon</key><true/>
Continue ReadingKiosk Mode with Guided Access in iOS 6
There are a lot of cool new features in iOS 6, but probably the one I’m most excited about at the moment, in terms for the church, is the new “Guided Access” mode. From my understanding, Guided Access mode was developed by Apple for the autistic, locking down some UI features to make things significantly easier to manage. [...]
Continue ReadingDropbox, meet Vimeo
Today Vimeo has a huge announcement. Along with a few other nice new features, like any-frame thumbnails and pausing-uploads, they also announced Dropbox integration. What this means is that you can set up Vimeo to look in one folder on Dropbox (even a shared folder) or your entire Dropbox account and anytime a video is uploaded, it will automagically [...]
Continue ReadingGiveaway: Paint Party
What you’re looking at is 14 high resolution scans of paint drippings, splatters, sprinkles, and smears. My wife and I created these in our kitchen a few years ago, and I’ve got to be honest, I’ve used these a ton in my artwork to breath just a little more life and color. Just drop them on top of your artwork in Photoshop [...]
Continue ReadingWallpaper Photoshop actions
Lately I have been making a few desktop and mobile wallpapers to promote a few things and have realized just how tedious of a task this is. The first time it took me almost an entire day to just modify the same file to work within the different sizes and export the different sizes. Finally, I decided to make my first pass at automating the [...]
Continue ReadingSoup by Jon Gordon
Whether you are producing a church service, or creating a product, or providing a service for others, what you put into your product is more than time and money. We, especially in America, have gotten used to the idea that if an idea is failing we need to lob more people or money at it in order for it to succeed. And when that doesn’t [...]
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