Notes for the Journey http://www.davidlimiero.net A blog by David Limiero posterous.com Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:01:00 -0700 Free Bibles for the Kindle Platform, including one with verse lookup feature http://www.davidlimiero.net/free-bibles-for-the-kindle-platform-including http://www.davidlimiero.net/free-bibles-for-the-kindle-platform-including

I love reading my Bible electronically. On the PC, I'm a long-time user of the Logos Library System. On my old Palm Treo, I was a big fan of Olive Tree bible software. And my latest favorite is YouVersion -- which offers multiple Bible translations for multiple mobile platforms.

I've also tried reading the Bible on my Amazon Kindle, but it's been a rather disappointing experience.I love the E-Ink screen, which has absolutely no glare and can be read just about anywhere. But I hate not being able to look up specific passages of Scripture. Unlike most e-books, the Bible has a very specific reference system based on book, chapter, and verse. And most Bibles published for the Kindle don't support that. You can search on any word or combination of words, but you can't easily jump to a specific passage like Ephesians 2:10.

That changed this past week, with the release of the GOD'S WORD Translation for the Kindle . Right now, it's available for free (although that's most likely a temporary offer). If you want to find a specific passage, you just start typing, and as you do, it quickly brings up the list of matching books. It works just like Google Quicksearch. You type an "E" and it brings up the only books in the Bible that start with the letter E (Ecclesiastes, Ephesians, Esther, Exodus, and Ezekiel). Type the second letter (P) and you're looking only at references in Ephesians. Type out the remaining two letters of the book abbreviation (visible on screen), a space, the chapter number, a period, and the verse number and depress the joystick and it jumps you immediately to the verse. (The whole thing sounds more complicated when you write it out like that. You simply type ephe 2.10 and you're there!)

Of course, all of the standard highlighting and annotation tools on the Kindle are available as well, so you can create your own set of custom notes. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to do the standard text search -- for instance, looking for a word like "baptism."

One final option -- if you've got a Wi-Fi only or WiFi & 3G Kindle and can connect to the Internet, you can always load up the mobile site for YouVersion. But when you don't have a net connection, like on an airplane, this is a great Kindle option.

 

 

This week there are two other free Bible available for the Kindle platform. Unfortunately, neither one has the direct chapter and verse lookup feature:

 

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I've always been an avid reader, and since July, and avid "e-reader" as well. (In July I purchased a used Amazon Kindle from a friend, and it has become one of my constant companions). When I read -- particularly non-fiction -- I like to underline, highlight, and mark up the text with my handwritten notes. On rare occasions, I've taken the time to actually write down (by typing or with my Livescribe pen) the relevant passages and my thoughts about those passages, putting all of that into a Word document or an Evernote clipping so that I have a customized book summary and reflection. I can go back months or years later to these custom documents and get a quick refresh of a book and my reflections on that book.

The problem with this process is the inordinate amount of extra time it takes to re-type or re-write those passages into some kind of electronic format. This has always been a second step -- after reading a chapter or two -- which takes longer than the first step of reading and highlighting the text in the book. So, as valuable as these documents have been for me, I found that I rarely invest the extra time to complete step two. (I suppose I could ask an assistant to do this for me, but that's not a luxury I've had until recently.)

Enter the Amazon Kindle -- not just the device, but the platform. When I say Kindle, I don't just mean the e-reader itself, but the various Kindle apps for Windows, Mac, IPhone, IPad, and Android (and hopefully soon, HP/Palm's WebOS). One of the huge benefits of the Kindle platform is that it eliminates step two -- the highlights and annotations I make on the Kindle can be quickly converted into a set of customized notes on any book.

On the Kindle itself, I can highlight using the pointing device and annotate using the built-in keyboard. Using the Windows app, I have access to my mouse and full-sized keyboard. Kindle apps on other platforms have similar functionality. And my highlights and annotations are wirelessly synchronized across my devices -- regardless of where I entered the highlights and annotations.

But I've recently discovered a "hidden" Kindle feature -- all of my notes and highlights are automatically uploaded to a personalized website at kindle.amazon.com. (You login to this website using your regular Amazon username and password.) The slogan on the site is "Read, Review, Remember" -- and that's exactly what it allows you to do.

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After logging in, I can choose any of my books marked as read and see my highlights, all highlights (from other Kindle users who have read the book and shared their highlights), and my annotations. If I want to add additional annotations to my highlights, I can do that right from the website, and those notes will also be synchronized to the Kindle and Kindle apps.

Here's a quick view of my highlights from Rick Rusaw's book The Externally Focused Quest: Becoming the Best Church for the Community:

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Switching to the all highlights view allows me to see highlights from other Kindle users -- a social view of what's important. I could see this being incredibly useful to students who are doing group study, or who simply want to see what others have marked as important as they review for a test.

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Finally -- and this is a killer feature -- there's a "review" feature that will set up review on a time interval that you specify. Your highlights and annotations will be presented to you in a "Flashcard View" on a schedule you determine.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/403094/david_close-up_prof_pic.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3ssW5yhcA8Lv David Limiero davidlimiero David Limiero Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:08:00 -0700 American Idol? http://www.davidlimiero.net/american-idol-565 http://www.davidlimiero.net/american-idol-565

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The words of the worship leader hit me hard yesterday morning:

I'm coming back to the heart of worship
and it's all about you
It's all about you, Jesus
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it
when it's all about you
it's all about you, Jesus

Now, I've heard (and sung) that song many times before. But it hard me hard yesterday for a reason -- the church I was sitting in at the moment the worship leader sang out those words was the second church I visited yesterday, and the reason I was at church #2  was because I had left church #1 just ten minutes into the "worship" service.

I'm not sure that I've ever done that before -- left a worship service in frustration because I just couldn't bear to be there a moment longer. Now, I've been to a lot of worship services where I've not enjoyed the style. And I've been to a fair number of services where the preaching has been mediocre, or the preacher has said something that's a little off kilter. I haven't always agreed with what I've heard taught or sung in worship, and that's OK. I don't expect to agree with everything at every service. But I also don't expect a service of idol worship.

Idol worship!? Strong words, I know. Church #1 didn't feature a golden calf surrounded by liturgical dancers; there was no Asherah pole or Baal statue on the platform. No, this idol was far more subtle. Idol worship here was far more discreet. My guess is that most of the people there weren't even aware that they were worshipping an idol.

You see, yesterday was July 4th, and church #1 was celebrating with a patriotic musical.The service began with the worship leader announcing, "We're here to celebrate and remember America today." As I scanned down the list of songs for the morning, my heart sank. Every single song, with one exception, could have just as easily been sung at the local elementary school or the American Legion hall. All were patriotic. None were explicitly Christian, with the possible exception of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." My only hope was the communion meditation and prayer way down at the bottom of the page, after a long list of songs about country and flag.

Now, I have nothing against patriotism. I've spent decades in the Boy Scouts, first learning to respect the USA as a boy, and now teaching other boys and young men to do the same. I've studied, practiced, and taught flag etiquette. And the only flag I've ever burned was during a very moving flag retirement ceremony with my Cub Scouts.

And I have a confession to make -- one I've never shared publicly before. Years ago when I was in seminary I spotted an American flag flying atop the flagpole of a local cemetery late at night, in the dark, with no light shining on it -- a big no-no. So I took down that flag, folded it carefully, and set it at the base of the flagpole with a note on flag etiquette. (I even signed the note "Captain America," after the comic-book hero of my childhood.)

But I also recognize that Christianity is not an American religion, it's a global one. In fact, there are far more Jesus-followers living outside of our country than inside of it. And America, as good as she may be, is not the city on the Hill. That role belongs to the followers of Jesus, and to the followers of Jesus alone. There is a "holy nation" referred to in the pages of the Bible, but it's not a reference to the United States of America.

But the clear stream of Scripture was muddied by the dirt of syncretism that morning in church #1. As the service continued, I tried my best to be good. But two songs in, when the narrator began to list the dates that all 50 states entered the Union, I couldn't take it anymore. I had come to church hungry that morning -- hungry with a deep desire to worship Christ, not country. I wanted to praise my Father, not my flag. I love my country, but I couldn't stomach an entire service of worship to an American idol.

And so, two songs in, I bolted. My heart was crying out with a need to worship Jesus, and I knew it wasn't going to happen here. So I got up, left the service, jumped into the car, and drove around until I found church #2. I got there late, more than halfway through the pastor's sermon, but enough to know that he was encouraging the congregation to celebrate the communion together as a foretaste of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And then the worship leader got up to sing, and when he opened his mouth, out came these words:

I'm coming back to the heart of worship
and it's all about you
It's all about you, Jesus
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it
when it's all about you
it's all about you, Jesus

My eyes filled with tears and my heart filled with grateful joy as my mouth was filled with those words of confession to my God and King. Because, far too often, I am, like church #1, guilty of the sin of idolatry. I confuse the things of this world with the things of heaven; the treasures of an earthly kingdom with the riches of a Heavenly one. I may not confuse Country and Christ, Flag and Father, but quite often I confuse good things and God-things.

And for that, Lord, I am sorry. I'm sorry that I often forget the heart of worship. I'm sorry for the thing I've made it. Because it is, indeed, all about you, Jesus.

Amen

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This was $259 at Barnes & Noble last week

Meanwhile, the Amazon Kindle has dropped from $259 to $189.

 

All of this to compete with the $149 Kobo E-Reader from Borders.

At this rate, could we see $99 E-Readers by Christmas?

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Carissa is spending the week in Tyler, TX working with homeless children. 

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Exponential 2010 - Podcast and Blog Posts

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/403094/david_close-up_prof_pic.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3ssW5yhcA8Lv David Limiero davidlimiero David Limiero Wed, 26 May 2010 07:30:00 -0700 We're number 67! We're number 67! Bakersfield Scores Rock Bottom in Quality of Life. http://www.davidlimiero.net/were-number-67-were-number-67-bakersfield-sco http://www.davidlimiero.net/were-number-67-were-number-67-bakersfield-sco

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I've never heard a group of cheerleaders chanting the phrase, "We're Number 67! We're Number 67!," before, but that's how Bakersfield ranked on a "quality of life" survey by business journal portfolio.com. That places us dead last in the survey, which analyzed census data from 2006-2008 on twenty factors including the economy, education, traffic, and cost of living. Among the "highlights" -- just 1 in 10 adults in Bakersfield holds a college degree. Thankfully, the survey didn't mention our air quality, which is the second-worst in the country after our neighbor to the south (Los Angeles).

Before moving to Bakersfield, I worked in Naperville, Illinois, a far-west suburb of Chicago that consistently ranked #1 in national surveys -- the best place in America to raise children; the best library system in the country, and so on.

I've been thinking about the impact of news like this on our collective psyches. How does this impact the lives, and particularly the aspirations, of those who live in such places?

In Bakersfield, the local paper chronicled the news with both a news article and an editorial, aptly titled, "C'mon now, is Bakersfield really that bad?". Both pieces not only present the news, but also the local angle that it's really not that bad of a place to live, despite what the experts say. The local paper includes a regular column about the high-achieving kids who grew up here, left for a while, and then moved back here to live. It's as if there's some sort of collective effort to convince ourselves (because nobody else really cares) that we have a city that's worth living in. It's an interesting form of self-talk; an attempt to buck up our own spirits in the face of depressing evidence.

Contrast that with Naperville, which also regularly chronicled the city's achievements. There was a real pride of place for the people who lived there. In fact, the people who lived close by, but not actually in the city itself, would often tell people that they were from Naperville. (Full confession: I worked in Naperville, but lived in the neighboring suburb of Bolingbrook. But on more than one occasion when asked where I lived, I answered "Naperville.")

When my wife and I first moved to Bakersfield to start our church, a well-intentioned pastor from northern California laid hands on us and prayed, "God, bless this couple in their efforts, because they're going to the armpit of hell, itself!" We tried, mostly successfully, not to laugh out loud at his characterization of the city to which God sent us. Not being from California, we had no idea how deeply set this impression of our fair city really was.

For those who were born and raised here, such comments are not merely comical, but deeply disturbing. Like the father who continually tells his son, "You'll never amount to anything," I wonder if this ongoing Bakersfield-bashing creates the worst kind of poverty -- the poverty of low expectations. How many people allow the environment to deeply impact their identity? How many are never challenged to be great because they are constantly being told they are not?

For the follower of Jesus, our identity isn't determined by where we live, but by our new life in Christ. Whenever I think of Bakersfield, I think of the words of Paul to the church in Corinth:

"Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 1:26-30 The Message)

In the end, whether you're a "somebody" or a "nobody" in the eys of others, everything that you have comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. Let's not let our environment determine our identity, but instead remember that our real identity comes from our heavenly parent and not our earthly place:

"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" (1 John 3:1 NIV)

 

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Anthony working on his homework at Panera, complete with coffee and a laptop.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

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Anthony as JoJo and Mariah as the Cat in the Hat remind us that, with imagination, everything's possible! Three Life Journey kids and teens on the stage and several more backstage for this production of Seussical today at Bakersfield Christian High School. Two more shows tomorrow at 3 PM and 6 PM.

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Somebody has a new license today.

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Social Security to See Payout Exceed Pay-In This Year

By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH

The system is projected to pay out more in benefits this year than it receives in taxes, a tipping point toward insolvency that was not expected before 2016.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/business/economy/25social.html

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JD Payne just added a third post in his series on North American church-planting missiology. In addition to going deeper into some of the theological and historical issues involved, he's also posted a link to a Powerpoint and some audio from a recent presentation.

Good stuff!

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Great opening weekend for the Verve Church in Las Vegas!

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Considering an IPad? Whether you submit or resist, Gizmodo can help you justify you decision:

·         The Litany of IPad Resistance

·         The Litany of IPad Submission

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JD Payne has started an interesting series of articles on the missiology used in North American church planting. His question: are we primarily coming from a pastoral missiology, or an apostolic one?

I'm one of three church planting missionaries in my family. My brother Steve works with new churches among the Oromo people in Ethiopia with CMF International, and my wife's twin sister and her husband are planting church in rural Paraguay with SIM. Our strategy when we planted our church in Bakersfield in 2003 was definitely pastoral, and theirs was definitely apostolic.

Since then, we've shared some interesting conversations, and I've come to agree with JD Payne that we need to rethink not just our strategy, but the missiology from which that strategy flows. That's led me to an ongoing dialogue with colleagues who are planting churches internationally.

As part of that dialogue, I'm helping coordinate a workshop track on church planting at the National Missionary Convention, and am working with Doug Lucas of Team Expansion on casting a vision for 1000 new church plants in the US and 1000 church planting movements worldwide between now and 2020.

Meanwhile, our church in Bakersfield has participated with Stadia in the launching of two other congregations -- one Anglo and one Latino -- as well as starting a small missional community in a low-income apartment complex a few miles from our Sunday morning campus. I'm still wrestling with the issues, but that hasn't stopped us from planting churches while we wrestle!

If you're a church planter, how would you describe your own missiology -- pastoral or apostolic? What thoughts do you have on how this has worked in your context?

 

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Leadership Network is hosting an upcoming free webinar by Larry Osborne on "sticky churches." This is good stuff for churches that are struggling with assimilation that leads to spiritual growth.Here's a quick excerpt from the Learnings Blog at Leadership Network that describes the webinar...

 

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Yesterday I spent an hour with Dino Rizzo, Eric Swanson and Rick Rusaw talking about churches that serve on our monthly webinar, The Spotlight. It was a great discussion, and it was really neat when they were each taking notes from the others’ stories! If you missed it, don’t fret – you can download the recording and a copy of the notes (in slide format) here.

On April 14, 2010, The Spotlight will feature Larry Osborne of North Coast Church in Vista, CA. Larry is the author of several books, including Sticky Church  (Zondervan, 2008) and his latest, Sticky Teams (Zondervan, 2010). The webinar is a one-hour, online presentation that lets participants interact with the presenter in a Q&A format. Got a question for Larry about stickiness in your church? Go ahead and email it to me now -- we’ll try to answer as many questions as possible on Wednesday, April 14 at 3:00 pm Central (convert to my time zone ). The webinar is free, but you must register to participate, so register now!

via learnings.leadnet.org

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/403094/david_close-up_prof_pic.jpg http://posterous.com/users/3ssW5yhcA8Lv David Limiero davidlimiero David Limiero Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:56:00 -0800 From Lifehacker: Harmony Attaches and Opens Google Docs from Outlook http://www.davidlimiero.net/harmony-attaches-and-opens-google-docs-from-o-0 http://www.davidlimiero.net/harmony-attaches-and-opens-google-docs-from-o-0

This looks like a very intriguing plug-in to integrate Microsoft Outlook with Google Docs. It essentially creates a file directory inside of Outlook, and allows you to edit those docs within Outlook. This video reveals many more features of the product.

Inside our organization, we're big users of Microsoft Office, but we also share a lot of things with people on the outside using Google Docs. It's always a bit of a hassle to chase down these documents.

There's also a similar version available for Sharepoint.

Harmony Attaches and Opens Google Docs from Outlook

Windows with Outlook: Sharing a Google Docs file for group collaboration can be a lot more useful than emailing individual copies to an entire team. Harmony makes opening, sharing, and managing Google Docs from inside Outlook a natural fit.

The free plug-in opens as a right-hand sidebar when you click its toolbar icon or launch it from your Start menu. Sign into your Google or Apps account, and your documents show up, ready for opening, sharing, or other use. Buttons at the bottom quickly toggle your view between documents, spreadsheets, and other files, and the PDF mode, in particular, might be a help for those who are all too handy at losing the right document at the wrong time.

Harmony also sports a similar Sharepoint integration sidebar, though we lack for a Sharepoint server at Lifehacker East. If you've used that feature, or found clever uses for a combined Outlook/GDocs inbox, tell us about it in the comments.

Harmony is a free download for Windows systems running Outlook only.


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