I set out to determine if purchasing an Ipad for use in a college classroom would have benefits over a regular notebook computer. The one major hangup everyone from the “fanboys” to the Mac newbies has is in the area of presentations / powerpoint usage.

The complaints range from weirdness with Keynote importing to lack of fonts to “deletion of speaker notes” under certain circumstances. It does seem to work fabulous via gmote or another app if you want to use your Ipad as the remote presenter and your Macbook is hooked up to the projector with your presentation on it. That is not an option for me. (See this article for a balanced look at these limitations http://theappleblog.com/

Also, I have a lot of very nice Koine or Biblical Greek powerpoint presentations. Not being able to use them due to font incompatibilities is a deal-breaker for me.

How and Why to Jailbreak Your Ipad (College related)
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Confessions-of-an-iPad/25387/
Also, you will need a copy of something like Winscp available at http://winscp.net to connect to your Ipad once you have opened or performed the jailbreak.

Adding Fonts for Your Presentation
http://blog.gauravgiri.com/
http://blog.gauravgiri.com/2008/08/tutorial-adding-extra-fonts-to-iphone/

Ipad Specific Instructions
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=911039

Plist Editor for Windows
http://www.filetransit.com/download.php?id=77101
www.ipodrobot.com
http://www.icopybot.com/blog/free-plist-editor-for-windows-10-released.htm

Being a great mobile browser, email beast, Kindle replacement, app machine, etc. are great reasons for buying and keeping an Ipad. However, I need to justify the cost as it will help me to not lug around a notebook computer for 15 hours of teaching a week. So, for right now I will wait until the Ipad is more user-friendly for what I need it to do.

Top 10 Signs Your Sermon Isn’t Going Well

13. Your associate pastor is warming up in the bullpen.

12. The praise band begins playing you off the stage.

11. The congregation is filling in the blanks of your outline before you get there.

10. You think the lyrics to a bluegrass song are really connecting with your audience.

9. When you pause for dramatic effect, several people giggle.

8. Your cell phone starts ringing,  and you answer it.

7. The person signing for the deaf just pulled on mittens.

6. When the children are dismissed to junior church, most of their parents go, too.

5. Your sermon took shape over a glass of wine and volume three of Left Behind.

4. Your interpreter just rolled his eyes and put your last statement in quotation marks.

3. Desperate mothers are pinching their babies.

2. The ushers are handing out refunds.

1. You began your sermon with “Top 10 signs your sermon isn’t going well.”

From http://www.preaching.com newsletter

The Museum of Idolatry: Relevancy EPIC FAIL!

Laws to Live By

~ If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had better let him lead.

~ When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave room for the mouse.

~ Never get into fights with ugly people; they have nothing to lose.

~ When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.

~ Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.

~ Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

~ People are always available for work in the past tense.

~ In any organization, there is one person who knows what is going on. That person must be fired.

~ The first myth of management is that it exists.

~ For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
(from Pastor Tim’s “PearlyGate List”)

WHO IS A DISCIPLE?
He who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
MATTHEW 10:38

A disciple is someone who confesses Christ as Lord and Savior, believes that God has raised Him from the dead, and declares that belief publicly through baptism. He is not some sort of “upper–level” Christian.
You don’t have to wait to become a disciple at some future time in your Christian life when you have reached a certain level of maturity. According to Matthew 28:19–20, a disciple is made at the moment of salvation.
Some claim that there are many Christians who are not disciples. They recall today’s verse and say that in order to be a disciple, one has to deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Christ. If one is not up to that level of commitment, they think, then he is not worthy to be Christ’s disciple. But you cannot separate discipleship from conversion.
When someone is saved, he receives a submissive spirit that manifests itself by a willingness to make a public confession and obey whatever else Christ commands. Are you, then, a disciple?
John MacArthur, Truth for Today : A Daily Touch of God’s Grace (Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman, 2001). 74.

Test Post

It truly does seem that at times our burdens are overwhelming. These long nights of the soul are hard to forget and usually lonely even with the closest of family and friends.
However, in the last few weeks we have been burdened for those who are in need of prayer. To genuinely empathize and pray for those in need of great spiritual comfort and strength is the burden I face tonight.

It has been a rough season to be a Tarheel fan! It has been even worse to pull for the Wolfpack!

Tar Heels end skid by beating Wolfpack 74-61 – WRALSportsFan.com

Just a little new paint, some varmint rustling, and a new desire to write and blog …

SBTS – Resources – Video: The President’s Forum on the Future of the Southern Baptist Convention

The Scandal of the Public Evangelical | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

The Scandal of the Public Evangelical
What we really have to offer the world.
Mark Galli | posted 7/02/2009 09:10AM

It’s been a tough couple of months for evangelical public figures. We discovered that Carrie Prejean, Miss California, sudden heroine in the gay marriage debate, posed nude for the cameras to kick-start her modeling career.

Then there were the Gosselins, a seemingly devout couple who were sacrificially raising a “ginormous” family on reality TV for all to see their Christian witness. They have decided to divorce. They mouthed the usual mantra, about doing it for the sake of the kids—and the hearts of the devout nationwide sank in despair.

Honestly, last night was a roller coaster of emotions. We were so happy that Reilly was finishing Kindergarten, but melancholy that he was the last cousin to do so. Ariel, Allison, Carissa, and now Reilly all are in grade school.

He did win the trophy he wanted to win and he received $50 in cash from everyone and he got the DS game he wanted… all told it was the best night of his life.

We pray that he and Allison will love the Lord with all their hearts.

That would be the best graduation present.

You Supply the Caption #118 – purgatorio

You Supply the Caption #118