Archive for December, 2007

The end of the slideshow

Dec 10th, 2007 by Tim | 5

Grab a few images, put them together with artistic, professional looking video effects, a touch of subtle background music and publish in a video format. All in under 5 minutes? No this is not a tutorial, in fact you don’t need to know anything about video, music or such things. If you have a bunch [...]

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Deck your church blog with boughs of holly?

Dec 10th, 2007 by Tim | 2

Well that is what one WordPress-driven church seems to have done. Fellowship Community Church in Grove City, PA have gone all festive with their church blog, courtesy of a pretty cool theme by Design Disease.
So how will you blog your church this Christmas? Hang angels from your Blog Title? Give away virtual gifts and [...]

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Leopard vs Goat

Dec 5th, 2007 by Tim | 1

The lectionary continues with Isaiah’s word pictures (Isaiah 11:1-10) imagining the coming of God.
“The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat” (Isaiah 11:6)
Who better than Sir David Attenborough to provide the background on this one? Here he is on a BBC documentary showing a snow leopard chasing [...]

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Following the Golden Compass

Dec 4th, 2007 by Tim | 4

Another film for Christians to start shouting about? I haven’t had chance to see the film yet, but I am now grown up enough to ignore the protests. Kim has a helpful post on the growing Christian reaction to the film, on the Faith and Theology blog. His basic stance being that the kind of [...]

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Creative Open Source:– Please can I use your stuff?

Dec 3rd, 2007 by Tim | 0

There is something so gospel-like about the open source world and yet Christendom can take no credit for it. The concept of open source software has been around a while, with many high profile success stories like Linux, OpenOffice, WordPress, to name a few. But the Open Source concept is also becoming increasingly popular in [...]

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More thinking about:

Living Open Source

Tim’s blog on anything from this week’s lectionary, to open source software like WordPress

Creative Commons License

Links

  • Church Marketing Lab (Flickr Group)
  • HelpTelly
  • Jamendo - (Creative Commons Music)
  • Lectionary Bible Studies
  • Lectionary Graphics (Flickr Group)
  • Liturgy - worship that works
  • LivingOS Blip.TV Channel
  • N T Wright Page
  • Re:Jesus
  • Rowan Williams
  • St Helens Baptist Church
  • TextWeek
  • Ultimate Guitar Tabs
  • Walter Brueggemann
  • WordPress
  • YouVersion