About me…
My role as an executive pastor is somthing like a Chief Operations Officer and a Senior Associate Pastor. I love connecting high capacity people and getting them the resources they need to make a difference in our world through the local church.
I also love working to develop creative solutions for communications, technology and ministry programs that make a difference in our communities.
I completely believe the church can change our world!
Nov
25
Why I use WordPress
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Since WordPress morphed out of b2/cafelog in 2003, it’s overtaken all competitors to become the world’s content management system of choice. I’ve been using WordPress since 2008 and couldn’t be more pleased with the user community and progress of this platform.
- 65,810,415 WordPress sites in the world (at time of writing)
- Over 100,000 new WordPress sites are created every day!
- Powers 14.7% of Alexa Internet’s “top 1 million” websites
- Used in 22% of all new websites
At the center of WordPress’s success has been its ease of use, clean styling, and open-source ethos, as outlined in a VERY early version of WordPress.org.
The beauty of WordPress is that it works for corporations (driving the likes of Wired, CNN, and The New York Times), as well as for smaller blogs and businesses.
Most have set up a standard WordPress site using a free theme, but how many have managed to:
- Fully understand WordPress’s underlying code
- Manipulate its server-side capabilities
- Customize it for a wide range of projects
- Harness its powerful APIs, plugins, and other extensions.
The WordPress Anthology by Mick Olinik and Raena Jackson Armitage is the new book from SitePoint. Its 336 pages offers web developers a broad base of WordPress solutions, putting you in control of this impressive CMS. Jam-packed with proven tips and techniques, you’ll discover how to effectively use WordPress.
Nov
24
Thankful for the Fleas
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This is an incredible post from Church & Culture blog by James Emery White. It is a favorite of the Church & Culture.org team and has become a Thanksgiving tradition of theirs that I want to share! I hope you enjoy this amazing story of radical gratitude this Thanksgiving.
The barracks where Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsy were kept in the Nazi concentration camp Ravensbruck were terribly overcrowded and flea-infested.
They had been able to miraculously smuggle a Bible into the camp, and in that Bible they had read that in all things there were to give thanks, and that God can use anything for good.
Corrie’s sister Betsy decided that this meant thanking God for the fleas.
This was too much for Corrie, who said she could do no such thing. Betsy insisted, so Corrie gave in and prayed to God, thanking Him even for the fleas.
Over the next several months a wonderful, but curious, thing happened. They found that the guards never entered their barracks.
This meant that the women were not assaulted.
It also meant that they were able to do the unthinkable, which was to hold open Bible studies and prayer meetings in the heart of a Nazi concentration camp.
Through this, countless numbers of women came to faith in Christ.
Only at the end did they discover why the guards had left them alone and would not enter into their barracks.
It was because of the fleas.
This Thanksgiving, give thanks to God for every good and perfect gift (James 1:17), but also thank Him for how He will use all things for good in the lives of those who trust Him (Romans 8:28).
In this time of declining home values and rising unemployment; in a time when many are facing physical and emotional challenges; there can be little doubt that such a trusting prayer of radical gratitude will be challenging to consider.
But when you feel that challenge, take a moment, and remember the fleas of Ravensbruck.
And thank God anyway.
