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Chapel of the Chicken
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! – Luke 13:34
Four 2009 Sermons Available for Listening
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to preach more extemporaneously, so I haven’t had sermon manuscripts to post here on the site. Nevertheless, sermons are being prepared and preached! St. John’s has been recording many of its services, and I’ve begun to extract the sermon audio from these recordings. Here are the “back issues” of sermon audio from the past several months.
2 min Intro to the Missional Church
I liked this video a lot – the missional church movement can be very buzzword-y, but this is dead simple:
(via JR Woodward)
Panoramas from my Israel Trip
Yes, it was two years ago.
Yes, that makes me a ginormous slacker.
But after seeing the photos my friends took on their recent excursion to the Holy Land, I wanted to stitch together the panoramic photos I took. Some of them stitched up really well! Clicking the link will take you to a massive full-size version.
Website Picks on “Pretty Good Lutherans”
Site Picks from Pretty Good Lutherans
Susan at Pretty Good Lutherans has a nice little list of some good ELCA websites. Unfortunately, it’s buried in the sidebar way down the page. But it’s worth clicking through and having a look at some of the sites. These aren’t perfect – for example, the SE Pennsylvania Synod’s domain name is “MinistryLink.org,” which isn’t particularly appropriate to a specific synod’s site, and they’re still a little jargony, but they are definitely a cut above the rest and deserving of a good long look.
New Website Template Launched
I’m happy to report that I just launched a redesign of my personal blog and namesite, TedCarnahan.com. It’s still got some rough edges, and I’ve got some cleaning up to do, but I’m really happy with the overall look and feel of it. It took about 12 hours of work (mostly nights when the family was asleep) to put it together over the past week or ten days.
Ministry Timesaver: Text Messages for Hospital Calls
Here’s an easy idea we just added at St. John’s that really makes things easier on the pastors (and intern!) – text messages for hospital calls. Our local hospital calls us when people are newly admitted to the hospital if they say that we’re their church. Our secretary already typed that information into an email to the three of us, so we just modified the email a bit and added three more addresses, corresponding to our cell phone numbers. Here’s how we do it: Keep reading…
Ash Wednesday Activity: Wash Away Your Sins
I don’t know about you, but sometimes Martin Luther’s famous advice to “remember your baptism” rings awfully hollow for someone like me, who was baptized as an infant and, frankly doesn’t remember his baptism. Now I fully understand that he really means “remember that you are baptized.” And I fully support infant baptism: after all, in Holy Baptism, as in all of salvation, it is God doing the work, and it’s not up to my power or ability to choose. Especially this year, though, I have been looking for ways to claim baptism in a deep way.
For Ash Wednesday, the theme we had chosen was “confession,” and I was led to see an opportunity to connect Holy Baptism, confession, and absolution together in a powerful way. Here’s what we did:
Freedom Software, Competition, and WordPress Plugins
You’ve done something noteworthy when people are willing to tell you publicly that they don’t like it. Such is the case with my Wordpress plugin, jQuery Table of Contents. Zoran at Hackadelic, author of a similar plugin, Hackadelic SEO Table of Contents, likes the clean code but could do without the Javascript.
Keep reading…
WordPress jQuery Table of Contents plugin
I’m proud to announce my first WordPress plugin, “jQuery Table of Contents,” which inserts the lovely little table of contents you see on many of the pages of my website. It uses jQuery to inspect the content of your post or page and generate table of contents links based on the header tags. It’s easy, SEO friendly, and highly customizable.
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