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Leaving Amish Paradise – Documentary Film by the BBC

Update Jan. 2012: In recent months most of my bloggin energy has been directed to a new venture called Live Well Simply. In this blog, I write about the Ten Habits of the Amish that have impacted me most. Leaving Amish Paradise This Film is the sequel to Trouble in Amish Paradise and is now airing in [...]

Job

In our Explore the Book class at church, we are looking at the book of Job.  This book addresses the philosophical and theological issue known as “the problem of evil”.  In relation to this, here is a video about John Piper’s book, Job. MP4 Video MP3 Audio

Youth Bible School 2009 – Open for Registration

Charity Ministries will be hosting their annual Youth Bible School running from November 2nd to November 8th this year.  Registration is now open to any single young people aged 16-28 who are serious about their walk with God and would like to be immersed in good Bible teaching for an entire week. This event is [...]

Family Safe Internet – Is the Internet a Blessing or a Curse for the Christian Family?

Family-Safe Internet Access? Working in IT and being in conservative Christian circles has allowed me to have some great discussions on how to implement (or not implement in some cases) the use of family safe internet by families seeking to follow the Biblical mandate to be “in the world,  not of it”. I want to [...]

Protected: CYBS 2008 – Photos & Audio

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A Piece of IT History

In the world of information technology before 1′s and 0′s, another revolution occurred. I found this brief documentary about Gutenberg’s printing press quite fascinating. STEPHEN FRY – THE MACHINE THAT MADE US Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V And here’s one for laughs comparing their time and ours.

HDR – First Attempts

Inspired by others who have taken some amazing HDR or High Dynamic Range Imaging photographs, I’ve decided to jump in and try my hand at this. Below are some photos I shot this morning. Comments and critical analysis are welcome. Telephone Pole St. Andrew’s Orthodox Church – Arlington, WA St. Andrew’s Orthodox Church – Arlington, [...]

Amazing Harmonica Player

I’ve never heard a harmonica played this way. Truly outstanding! First saw it over HERE.

The Default

I was teaching a 76 year old man yesterday how to use his iMac computer and he asked me a very good question. “What does the word ‘default’ mean?” I had to think for a second, because even though I’m always setting defaults in the BIOS or resetting IE to defaults, I didn’t pay much [...]

God & Public Schools

This video is about a topic that has been hashed out many times, however the graphics and simplicity of its message is arresting.