Anne Jackson, blogger and author, just launched a book site for her new book Permission to Speak Freely. A few days before launch she posted a plea for some WordPress coding help on Twitter to which I happily responded. I helped tweak her site theme a bit to (1) accomplish some of her specific needs [...]
The EDGE is a set of Christian conferences designed for students (middle school & high school) and youth workers. They happen each winter in North Carolina and Tennessee and are sponsored by Inlightened Ministries. If your church group is looking for a conference that offers Biblical teaching and exciting worship for an affordable price then [...]
If you live in the Roanoke Valley and you are looking a community of people who want to serve each other and the people around them then you should check out Genesis Community Church. GCC is a new church plant started by my good friend Craig Tackett along with a talented group of young people [...]
It’s that time again… the time when I can’t help but feel a little jealous that I’m not headed overseas with the Compassion Bloggers. Next week a group of bloggers are heading to El Salvador to see Compassion International’s work first-hand. I work with Compassion on a regular basis but I have yet to get [...]
Nooma has a great new video in partnership with Compassion International and featuring Rob Bell. It’s definitely worth a watch: (Link opens Nooma’s website.)
I just (finally) upgraded my iPhone OS to the new 3.0 and thought this might be a good opportunity to go over some of the apps that I keep on my iPhone’s home screen. I won’t deal with the native iPhone apps, just the third-party gems that I can’t function without. (All application links go [...]
This is an amazingly well crafted video explaining the history and purpose of Compassion International. Compassion International just celebrated its 1 millionth child sponsored. That is what I call making a difference in the world.
The other day a friend of mine asked me how I develop WordPress themes on my computer because he wants to switch his blog over to WP from Blogger. After going through some of the basics in 140-character chunks, I thought it might be easier just to explain my WP development setup here on the [...]