Mondays are for the Links: 5/10/10

I keep the girls on Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the school year, I look for free fun things to do, here are a few: This is fun and so is this.

The art of travel, $25 or less per day.  This is awesome purely for its lack of commercialization.

Earthquakes happen everyday, here is a good source for such nerds.

This is from an e-newsletter from Church Marketing Sucks regarding “technology”.

“We’ve gone from the Gutenberg generation of the church to the Google generation of the church,” says Cynthia Ware, executive director of the Center for Church Communication, in the latest issue of Charisma magazine. “For 500 years, things have been one way. And now, in five years’ time, almost everything has changed. The gospel message doesn’t change, but the presentation of it and the accessibility of it and everything in the culture around it has changed.”

Yes!

Technology has changed so much. It enables us to dream up new ways of communicating church and gives us new ways of engaging the Sunday sermon. It also gives us new ways to make mistakes and new ways to bash each other.

But despite new technology, some things don’t change. Sharing the gospel still requires living a consistent lifestyle of grace and love–whether we’re online or off. May our churches communicate the greatest story ever told in the real world and the digital world.

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