Posted by Bryan on September 24, 2008 under Staff Blog | 
Well, Sunday was nice, and now we’ve also had a great Wednesday! Nam imperdiet ultricies ante. In elementum tristique nunc. Maecenas lacinia imperdiet quam. Curabitur adipiscing nisi vitae lacus. Curabitur sagittis, eros eget laoreet euismod, dolor libero vehicula risus, in mattis nunc lorem nec sapien! Integer non nulla. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Proin nunc! Sed vehicula? Sed a nibh. Donec laoreet, diam eu scelerisque ultricies, lectus sem hendrerit neque, non ultricies dolor leo at quam. Nam in erat? Ut auctor, dolor id congue facilisis, tellus purus ornare mauris, vel sagittis ipsum odio id risus. In dapibus tincidunt sapien. Morbi elit magna, elementum nec, varius eget, semper sit amet, risus. Aliquam tempor? Aliquam erat volutpat.
Praesent tempus lectus! Etiam eget lectus vel risus sagittis laoreet. Vestibulum quis ipsum ac erat pulvinar egestas. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur commodo interdum nunc. Proin condimentum lectus ut tellus. Vestibulum neque neque, auctor et, volutpat vitae, semper vel, dui. Morbi lectus. Maecenas dictum, metus a scelerisque cursus, nunc enim gravida mauris, tristique facilisis diam eros vel felis. Vestibulum accumsan lorem nec urna.
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Posted by Bryan on under Sermons |
Exodus 40
ONE GREAT TRUTH: God promises His presence to His people, but we experience His presence in a real way only as we remain in step with Him.
When I was little, I used to have 2 tendencies when keeping up with my Dad… I would either move very slow and trail way behind, or I would run over his heels, which he always loved!
Israel had the problem of either lagging behind or running ahead of God. We do the same, don’t we? We often make our plans and rush ahead, or we fall out of touch and lag behind. But God wants us to really experience His presence in a real way on a daily basis by staying in touch with Him.
HOW TO REMAIN IN STEP WITH GOD…
1. Be aware of His presence… by being sensitive to the Holy Spirit.
2. Be listening for His will… by reading His Word.
3. Keep together with God’s people… by remaining in fellowship with others.
Posted by Bryan on under Staff Blog |
We had a great Sunday this week! Vivamus non tortor ac purus dictum hendrerit. Nunc suscipit risus a lacus. Aenean lacinia pede sed lacus. Cras turpis tellus; bibendum sed, lacinia quis, convallis a, nunc. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Quisque nisl erat; dignissim ut, venenatis in, consequat non, lorem. Sed lobortis euismod nulla. Nunc sit amet purus. Duis ullamcorper. Cras ac libero non est aliquam porta. Vestibulum condimentum. Nulla semper facilisis leo. Suspendisse vulputate lacus ut justo. Etiam egestas suscipit diam. Aenean mattis dapibus lacus. In sit amet neque. Nulla facilisi. Vestibulum non turpis.
Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Sed dapibus lobortis ligula. Duis justo. Proin auctor venenatis purus. Proin vel velit ut orci bibendum sollicitudin. Donec posuere lacus sit amet lorem. Cras urna. Donec sed nunc. Cras nisi! Etiam tincidunt velit tempor dolor. Praesent libero nibh, tristique eget, congue ut, viverra vel, elit. Donec aliquam aliquet nulla. Fusce consequat mi quis ipsum. Curabitur blandit; pede sed ornare fermentum, odio mauris semper risus, sed eleifend nisi nulla et massa? Etiam ut lectus et ipsum laoreet aliquam. Sed ligula justo, gravida vitae, sodales at, semper a, sapien. Phasellus suscipit. Maecenas diam lacus, ultricies congue, luctus eu, tincidunt quis, erat.
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Posted by Bryan on under Sermons |
Exodus 35 – 39
ONE GREAT TRUTH: God has called on His people to give from a willing heart with the promise that whatever we give, He can multiply.
We are experiencing difficult economic times, the likes of which the present generation has never really seen before. Some who lived through the late 70’s have seen recession, inflation, and unemployment hit a peak. And perhaps a few of you can remember the Great Depression, but the generation that is growing up now has not seen it yet. So what do we normally do when things get really tough?
• We panic and feel hopeless or desperate.
• We begin to try to plan our way out of it and horde.
• We foolishly ignore it and suffer.
What should we do? Pray, save, work hard, and give.
THREE THINGS GOD MULTIPLIES…
1. He multiplies my treasure.
God asked them to bring every kind of fine material – linen, stones, wood, and precious metals. And they brought.
2. He multiplies my time.
This is perhaps the greater sacrifice for many. In fact, some would make the excuse, “Well I don’t have much time to give, but here’s a check.”
3. He multiplies my talents.
God has given every one of us natural abilities as well as supernatural abilities (those who know Christ) to be used for His glory and for His Kingdom.
God’s Kingdom isn’t really that affected by recession. God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, the Bible says. He doesn’t need your money or even your time. But He invites you to invest in an opportunity that promises an amazing return.
Posted by Bryan on under Featured Articles, Theme News |
The Ministry Theme is the result of a whole lot of planning and work. Our desire has been to offer a WordPress theme to the Christian community that was designed by someone in ministry who knew what a church needed in a web site. Although ownership of the Ministry Theme has changed, the vision is still the same.
- Something that looked nice and clean – a design that featured the content of the site well.
- Something easy to update – and few systems are as easy to update as WordPress.
- Something that was pre-designed to feature the elements that church web sites need the most – events, articles, and lots of informational pages.
We’re still perfecting the theme in the background. We want to create quite a few variations and skins for the Ministry Theme. Some churches need a dark background, others a grunge feel. Every church has its own personality and we hope to create a framework that will feature the personality of any church. We will also be creating a theme options page so that you can more easily change some of the elements of the front page and sidebars of the site. Here’s a feature list…
- Church and ministry-friendly layout.
- DHTML Drop down menu, automatically generated by page structure.
- Tabbed sidebars for a concise way to communicate information.
- Custom pages for home, links, and archives.
- Featured Post on the front page with built-in thumbnail support.
- Sub-featured posts on the front page as well.
- WordPress 2.8 ready, including handling of captions and images.
- Gravatar/avatar support is built into the comments.
- Base theme is relatively image-free for fast loading.
Keep watching for further developments and let us know what you’d like to see in the comments section below.
Posted by Bryan on under Theme Help |
The tabbed areas at the top of the sidebar can be used for a variety of things. Communicate to different audiences (as shown in the first box) or consolidate basic information (as shown in the second box). The third box on this demo outpus a list based on the WPListCal plugin.
Please know in advance that the tabbed area doesn’t work very well in IE6, but it does degrade. The tabs turn into h2 headings. The drawback is you lose the white background and it stretches the sidebar further down the page. We’re following in the path of 37 Signals in not spending hours and hours of time trying to fix every little detail for IE6. We want IE6 users to be able to read the content, but we’re not concerned with every visual effect going well. It’s time we grew beyond the old and busted browser.
You could also add an email subscription form using code generated by FeedBurner or FeedBlitz or another email and feed list manager.
You could also show recent photos as clickable thumbnails using Flickr and the Flickr plugin from Tan Tan Noodles.
Posted by Bryan on under Theme Help |
This is just a post to show you what some images will look like in your finished site when you add them using WordPress’ cool built-in image uploading functionality. The first one, at the top, is an image that “floats” to the right with the text wrapping around it.
You can change the default image sizes under the Settings > Miscelleneous area of the WordPress Admin area and there are plugins available to refresh all images on your site should you ever change these settings. Just remember that images are sized by WordPress as you upload them, so if you change your mind on the size later, you’ll need to change your code by re-uploading and re-inserting the image.
Just above is an image that’s aligned to the center using the “Add media” tool, and after the next paragraph are some images as thumbnails aligned to the left, but not using the “Left” alignment in the “Add Media” window, but rather with “none” selected next to alignment. Left alignment works similarly, but allows text to wrap around the image, which is fine unless the image is at the end of the article, in which case they will hang off the bottom of the article area.
One hint about WordPress (at least 2.6.*) is that the system automatically uses captions if you fill in the Caption field. We leave that blank. Then, we switch over to HTML view and add in a description of the image where the code says alt=”", between the quotation marks. This “alt” text serves at least 2 functions. One, it shows up if your image cannot be displayed, so at least people know what kind of image was supposed to be there. And second, search engines can’t admire your pictures, but they can catalog what’s in the picture using this “alt” text.
Posted by Bryan on September 23, 2008 under Uncategorized |
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