The speed with which many churches started to use social media and online meeting tools is phenomenal. The common technical annoyance across all these tools is that are not suitable for church use. They are designed more for “fun” use – chatting and taking photos etc. Problems begin when a…
God is all-knowing and all-presence – omniscience and omnipresent. Words fail to describe who God is. But these attributes are a way for us to know God. In the busy-ness of our lives, a lot of us struggle about the relevance of God. In the busy-ness of our lives, a…
Continuing from Monday. I am no longer holding on my previous job (probation). My approach is not to stew over things past. The opportunity that the HR rep spoke about, yup, that was truth, though it’s not “cast in stone” yet, in that the paperwork is not all complete. With…
Not sure what to make of it. OK, get straight to the point, the job that I was on probation for, today was the last day and the significant manager informed me, in a meeting of four including me, that I don’t fit this job. Perplexed, I paused, or rather,…
The earth with the exact quantity of air, including oxygen, is quite amazing. It’s enough for all of us. OK, it’s more complicated than that. There is a kind of air regeneration cycle where oxygen is reproduced. I heard of an account where oxygen had been shot up to space.…
This page is part of a monologue. Relax, no need to read: it may not be useful for some. Do you suffer from, or told that you are, Confidence is, to explain it relatively easily, being sure of something. In a variety of situations, “over” confidence can cause problems with…
Use of video might be one thing people have been reluctant to try using online tools for church services. In a ‘normal’ church services where we meet physically, playing video is such a great headache. Getting something played on the computer is already a tough thing to achieve, then getting…
Using online church, we have managed to “see” some of the people we usually meet as church family, showing concern and care, sharing in sorrow and joy. It’s beginning to feel like it is easier to talk to each other online. We have done that a few times. We know…
Series starts here. Music focus – musical instruments and voices Challenging. Think of when you only have a very small amount of “information” to send down the line. Or like a spacecraft going to beyond our galaxy further into space, it could communicate back to earth, but only tiny portion…
This page is part of a monologue. Relax, no need to read: it may not be useful for some. I am out of time. I am not a high performer in school. Not that I had no opportunity to apply for scholarship or such similar funding, what I encountered was…
Many hymns and songs we sing together in church are about our praising to God – we praise God for who he is and how much we have been blessed. O Worship the King, How Glorious Above, is such. A tune usually used for this hymn is Lyons. Together it gives…
Series starts here. Congregation focus Showing multiple faces on screen gives a sense of community. Where your application can show faces across people who have logged in, this can greatly create that sense of community – while they are not individually looking or relating to some other individuals, it seems…
