The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
—Psalm 19:1 (ESV)

Admire our Earth — Worship the Creator!

A friend of mine posted this article today asking the age old question — What OS Would Jesus Use? — This article is chalk-full of great godly wisdom and technical insight!

The question du jour is this: WOSWJU? Or, What Operating System Would Jesus Use? A trite question? Hardly. Anyone interested in the eternal fate of their computer data should concern themselves with finding the truth (Truth?) behind this question. Instead of just giving a pat-answer let’s go through our options, shall we?

Read: What OS Would Jesus Use?

YouthPoint was birthed out of a dream that any Canadian youth group could have access to internet technologies for their group to communicate online. The goal was to make the tools available at no cost and to make it easy to use. Along with the group web sites the desire was to provide fresh content to the sites and the site users in the way of articles, music reviews, devotions, forums etc.

Over the past 5 years this dream has seen some success and www.youthpoint.ca has helped may groups and pastors. However over the past year YouthPoint has started to see a slow decrease in use. Other options like Facebook or www.wordpress.com sites have begun to take their place. There are a number of faithful forum posters but they too are becoming more infrequent.

Through the conception, building and running of YouthPoint I have spent a considerable amount of personal time and money to make the project happen. Many others like Will, Fred and Val have been helping all along the way by writing and managing the forums. It is not easy to admit that after all this effort that a project like this may be dying – but reality is starting to set in. The amount of time and money required to put into YouthPoint to make it more like Facebook or a WordPress blog is just too much. After all – the goal starting out was to have the technologies available to pastors for their group to communicate online – if this is being done through these other sites then the goal is still being met – just not with YouthPoint’s help.

What I would like from you is some prayer and some advice. Let me know what you think – let it die – let it ride as is and let people use it for what it is – quit my day job and live on rice while I rebuild YouthPoint? (I’m not real fond of the rice idea). I am ok with it if YouthPoint dies – I will be sad – but ok. Please let me know what you think.

-Andy Smith
Duke of URL – www.youthpoint.ca

Jim Walton is a Geek – I don’t think he would mind me saying that – Geek these days is a term used for people who excel with technology. Geek is Chic! Jim is also a Christian – I am positive he doesn’t mind me saying that!

When Geeky guys (gender inclusive) go to church they tend to get involoved in the church technology – web sites – projection – audio/visual/sound – I have been for years.

Jim writes a blog called Church Tech Matters - it is right up my alley! He writes about different types of technology used in a church setting and how to make it better. Recently Jim started a wiki (what?) called the Church Tech Matters Wiki. The content has been started based around church projection – something close to my heart and pretty important technology for the modern church.

So if you have any interest in technology – the church and how the two relate – check out Jim’s blog and the wiki. You have to love it – using technology to talk about technology… Geek is Chic!

Believe it or not – I have a life outside of Tyndale
I have been involved in youth ministry for many years now and one of the highlights of every year for me is the annual retreat. This year we returned to Medeba for the fourth year in a row. It is a great facility and I am kinda partial to it being on the board

This year I had asked the Tyndale worship team (Colin, John and Joshua) if they would consider coming to do the worship. They accepted and joined us this weekend for a great time. As usual they did a great job and represented Tyndale well. I just wanted to say a special thanks to them for their help.

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A man in Houston claims that he is the second coming of Jesus Christ. Dr. Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda makes some interesting claims in this video.

“I am the second coming of Christ, that messiah that they’ve been waiting for,�

said Dr. Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda.

Read the article here.