Sunday Look Back 7-12-09

1. Hardest Sunday I have ever had at DP



2. The band did a great job! Brien the songs were so appropriate and moving.



3. The best Sunday I can remember



4. The saddest Sunday I can remember



5. Philip hit a homerun! His message was perfect for the day



6. Who could have thought that when we planned this sermon series 4 months ago that death would fall on this week.



7. Life is short. Who are you living for?



8. Our volunteers did an amazing job clean up the back room!



9. Heard the open mic night on Friday was awesome! Check it out again in 2 weeks.

Tip of the day Thursday: Installing Greasemonkey

On Tuesday we talked about what greasemonkey is and what the best script were for it. Today for a quick tip I am going to tell you how to install it to Firefox or Flock. I will save Chrome and Safari for another post.

1. Go to the greasemonkey add-ons page

2. install the add-on

3. Re Start Firefox or Flock

4. Go to Userscripts.com

5. Find some scripts that you like for gmail, google, twitter, facebook and install them

Again it's that easy. So have fun and send me any cool greasemonkey scripts you come across.

Band vs Production Team

I have read a lot lately about how production teams and bands do not get along. I find this even harder to believe in churches. YOU ARE ALL ON THE SAME TEAM! Now I know personalities are different and some musicians have egos, but there is a way to balance all of this to make worship be the best it can be every week. Here are a few suggestions

1. Get to know your worship leader(s). Take him to lunch, set up a meeting with him and just get to know him. Don't talk about the sound issues, don't talk about the production side at all if you can avoid it.

2. Ask questions about the equipment they are using. Get to know what each musician likes his sound to be.

3. Answer any questions the band members have for you

4. Teach your worship leader how the equipment in the production booth works.

5. Stay patient

6. Have the band and the production teams pray together.

These are just a few suggestions I have for working with band members I am no expert but so far these tips have worked for me.

Top 10 Tuesday: Greasemonkey Scripts

Every Tuesday I list 10 of my favorite things in hopes that you might find something you can use too. This week I am listing my top 10 greasemonkey scripts. What are greasemonkey scripts? Here is the best definition I could find: Wikipedia- Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox add-on that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages (also known as augmented browsing). As Greasemonkey scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script. Greasemonkey can be used for adding new functions to web pages (for example, embedding price comparison in Amazon.com web pages), fixing rendering bugs, combining data from multiple webpages, and numerous other purposes. In short they make the browsing experience better. On Thursday in my Tip of the week I will show you how easy it is to install these scripts.
10. Google Thumb Nails

9. Troys Twitter Script- Makes all sorts of changes (for the better) to Twitter

8. Twitter Search Results - Puts twitter search results at the top of you google searches

7. Gmail Macros

6. Gmail message count favicon- Puts a small number of

5. Better Remeber the milk - The name says it all

4. Twitter URL expander - Makes Tiny URL full size URLs so you can

3. Auto complete always on - Some websites turn of the Username and password Auto complete function this script will leave it on all the time.

2. Google image re-linker - Sends you directly to the image not the image page

1. Gmail conversation preview- Lets you see a preview of a message in gmail

Sunday look back 7-5-09

1. We have a group of amazing volunteers. Thank you guys you have no idea what you mean to me and the rest of the staff at Discover Point.

2. This was the best 4th of July yet! We met a ton of people at the horse park!

3. Band did awesome as usual.

4. That was the best I have ever heard them do Amazing Grace (My chains are gone)

5. It was nice to See Philip on stage again.

6. God's Grace is Amazing

7. Production team had 2 of its members honored on Sunday for their service. Dave and Laurah will be leaving after this month and moving on to Arizona. I will miss them them a lot!

8. Blew the other 2 robotic light bulbs some how. I cannot wait to see all 3 robotics in action at the same time!

9. Really great weekend at Discover Point. Thank you to all who made it happen! Thank you God for letting it happen.

How to add analytics to Your blog

Analytics is a way for you to measure the success of your site (blog ). You can not only see how many people visited your site but also where they came from, what browser and operating system they are using or what sire directed them to you as well as many other things. Analytics is a great tool for you to make informed decisions about your site. A few of my friend have ask me how to add Google Analytocs to thier Blogger Blog. It is really very simple.




1. First you sign up for an account with Google and go to the Analytics page



2. Submit your domain name http://www.blogger.com/yourblogsname

3. You will receive a tracking code. A short snippett of HTML code. Copy all of it. Note do not use the Legacy tracking Urchin.



4. Go to your blogger dashboard



5. Find the blog you want to add the Analytics code to a click the settings button





6. Then go to the Layout Tab at the top




7. The click the Edit HTML tab



8. Go to the bottom of the HTML text box and find the peoce of code that says



9. Paste the code between it and your tag



10 Wait 24 hours and you will start enjoying the never ending possibilities of Google Analytics.



Please let me know if this was helpful or not.

Production Blog: When is it okay to program your service for unbelievers?

I found this blog today and thought it was very interesting. I love to read Tim Stevens work and a lot of times I agree with him and a lot of times I do not. His blog Leading Smart is one of my favorite Blogs. This blog ask the question when is it okay to program your service around unbelievers? Here is post from earlier today:

Is the Church REQUIRED to Meet on Sunday?

We have had quite the discussion going on related to a post I wrote last week about the purpose of a church service. I asked the question, "What is wrong with having a gathering every week where half the people who are in attendance don't yet understand salvation by grace?"

In response, Tom Becker said, "The meeting together is for the edification of believers. Sorry that's not what I say, it's what the Bible says. We are then to be prepared or taught to go out into the world and preach the gospel and make disciples."

Tom is likely referring to Hebrews 10:25 or Ephesians 4:15-16 where we learn of the importance of the church to gather, edify and exhort each other.

Gary Humble replied and added, "

I have to completely agree with Tom here. The church gathering or assembling of the saints as the Bible calls it is not meant to be primarily a tool for evangelism. While I have nothing against Granger or similar churches, I do think it's erroneous to treat our weekends as a time FOR the unbeliever. That idea is not supported by scripture, sorry. The Word does mention the unbeliever in the church. But nowhere does it define the church as a gathering FOR the unbeliever. In fact, scripture goes through great lengths to define it as just the opposite."

To continue this conversation, some of my thoughts...

• I agree with both Tom and Gary that we are instructed to assemble the followers of Christ.
• This time should include encouragement and exhortation.
• But, does that mean that EVERY time the church gets together, it has to be for the purpose of the edification of the believers?
• The church gathers hundreds of times every week, sometimes in large gatherings, and sometimes in much smaller groups. Sometimes it is to celebrate, other times it is to honor the passing of a loved one. Sometimes it is in a home setting, other times in a large assembly room. Sometimes it is to serve food to the hungry, other times it is to make organizational decisions.
• So are we saying that every single time the church gets together it must be for the purposes stated above? Or could we agree that the church should be gathering for exhortation and edification--but there is nothing in the Bible to prohibit that they shouldn't get together for other purposes as well?
• If that is true, than who is to say the exhortation/edification gathering MUST be on Sunday morning? Gary says it is "erroneous to treat our weekends as a time FOR the unbeliever." So when is it acceptable to have this gathering? Would it be okay to treat Monday nights as a time for the unbeliever? What about Thursdays at 2am? Why are the weekends sacred for the believer? I'm not a theologian, so I'd love someone to show me where believers are required to gather during the weekend.
• At Granger, the gatherings of the church for the primary purpose of exhortation and edification happen during the week in many places in groups from 5 to 2,000. We use the weekend to gather a crowd to hear Biblical truth and take steps toward Jesus.
• We seem to be given some instruction in I Corinthians 14 that there are times when unbelievers will be in your church service...and because of that you will need to modify what you do because of their presence. That is what we do every weekend. We say, "This isn't for me. This is for my neighbor or friend or co-worker who is not yet part of the church."

What am I missing?

Well what are your thoughts?

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