After months of putting it off, I finally got around to changing my header graphic to a nice dynamic slideshow of some of my photos utilizing Flash and a little PHP magic. I went and downloaded the Flashfader Plugin and then had to find the magic spot in my header.php file to place the code. [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Video games have always fascinated me, not because of the games themeselves, but because of their effect on the individual playing. Here’s a video from TED that covers the topic illustrated by a video clip of someone who was born the same year I was. (A side note: I rarely play video games because I [...]
Posted on October 7th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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It looks like mankind has not given up on building a tower that reaches to “heaven”. CNN has an interesting story. ‘Space elevator’ would take humans into orbit http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html
Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Yesterday, I started a new blog, and I thought I would document all the technical details of setting it up, partly for my own future reference and partly to help out others who want to go all out and do this thing properly. This step-by-step is for the WordPress blogging platform: Register a domain name [...]
Posted on September 18th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Here’s an interesting graphical depiction of all the Churches in the US. Can you picture what would happen if every one of these churches lived out true Christianity and were united under the authority of Jesus Christ?
Posted on February 6th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Friday evening and I’m gearing down the tech part of my brain for the weekend. Meanwhile, I just put the finishing touches on the website for our church that I recently converted to WordPress CMS from static html/css. I hope to be able to post the weekly messages and the occasional article of interest or [...]
Posted on January 11th, 2008 by Josh Champagne
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Long ago, my dad read a short biography of Menno Simons during our traditional evening readings. It’s been years, so I thought I would go and read it again and rediscover the man who’s name is imprinted on the Anabaptist denomination that I’ve chosen to be a part of. Some highlights from his life that [...]
Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Josh Champagne
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Sitting here in the Harrisburg International airport waiting for my flight home, I’ve been thinking back over the week at Charity Youth Bible School and wondering what aspects of it I should write about. Spiritually, it has been close to, if not the most challenging week of my life. I studied the Bible along with [...]
Posted on November 12th, 2007 by Josh Champagne
Filed under: Bible Study, Research & Learning, Travel | 3 Comments »
“Philosophy doesn’t give us answers; it helps us ask the right questions so that theology and science can give us the answers.”
Posted on October 17th, 2007 by Josh Champagne
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“Whatever happens, as citizens of heaven live in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together with one accord for the faith of the gospel.” – Philippians [...]
Posted on October 8th, 2007 by Josh Champagne
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