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Tyler Gillies One Christ Body
Monday, October 20, 2008
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
social media sites. what's your favorite?
Image via Wikipediathere are a bunch of social media sites out there. brightkite, plurk and friendfeed to name a few. what are your favorites?
Testing Zemanta
Image by chucks via FlickrTesting new browser plugin Zemanta, that adds images and links to your blog posts. +1 Laziness!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Jaiku to rise from the dead
A lot of people are talking about how Google has "dropped the ball" in regards to Jaiku. True, I think they are going to be late comers to the social aggregation scene. However, Google still has a card up their sleeve. Android. Judging from Scoble's response at GoogleIO, Android phones are going to have some good competition with the iPhone. If Android phones start eating up the market share, guess what phone based social aggregator users are going to be given? You guessed it, Jaiku, or at least some Googlefied version of it.
I don't think its Google's goal to have an active community for Jaiku yet. The only reason they are still even letting people use the Jaiku service is because they want an existing userbase when they open it up to the public again. They even tell as much on the official Jaiku website FAQ:
Q: Will Google continue to support Jaiku users?
A: Jaiku will continue to support its existing user base. Jaiku users will be able to invite new friends, but new user registrations have been closed for the time being. We are working on exciting new products and our Jaiku users will be among the first to try them out!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Snocap store finally adds my previews
The snocap store finally added my previews for my songs on Myspace
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Snocap
Snocap previews of my music store are not showing up. I'll give it antoher day or two and then delete it. Oh well... :(
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Snocap/Myspace Store
I just started a new artist Myspace page. Check out my stuff!
Snocap is a cool service that allows artists to sell their music independantly.
My tracks are only 50 cents a pop and they're pretty good (I think), so go buy em up!
Monday, April 21, 2008
First Picasa Creation
I created this guy using all the pictures in the "my documents" folder. turned out kinda trippy.
Picasa
I just downloaded Picasa so I would have a place to store images. I usually use flickr, but I'm wondering if picasa might be a better workflow, considering its part of the Google family.
XP Silver Theme
I just recently switched my Windows XP theme over to the silver one that comes default. I am constantly amazed at how much better it looks and I wonder why Microsoft didn't make it their default theme.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
New found finances
I just realized today that I had some money in a retirement account that I forgot about when I was in the service. I owe the service about the same amount that is in the account, so I am (unsurprisingly) super stoked. My payments to the government are currently 400 bucks a month. So this should provide some much needed relief
iTunes podcast listing
My podcast is now accessible by iTunes at this link.
It should be added to the searchable directory within a few days.
Monday, April 14, 2008
New Podcast
I'm creating a new podcast for my music so you can keep track of all the little stuff I release and don't decide to post to an actual forum. Enjoy.
Heres the web link
Heres the link to add to podcast programs
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Clubbing
Last night I went to a local dance club (I think the only one on the island). It's been the first time I've been to one in a long time. I was surprised that I actually pulled out some fairly decent moves. I got there around 10:30 and danced until 1 something. I had to get up early so I could setup things around the church. I got a good 5 hours, not too bad.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
New Song
I just added a new song to my music profile at virb. It's a dance remix/mash of "I shot the sheriff" by Bob Marley. Be sure to check out my other music on there.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
pandora.com
Pandora is a free music player that plays a "radio station" of songs based on a user inputted artist or song name. You can click the thumbs up or down button to tell pandora which songs you would like it to play more or play less.
hulu.com
Check out hulu.com. They offer full, free TV episodes and feature films. There are minimal commercials (less than "real" tv)
Photo Posting
You may have noticed that I started including photos with my blog posts. I think this catches the reader's attention and makes it more likely that they will read an article. The majority of the images are under Creative Commons license. You can find them on flickr using the advanced search feature.
1st Corinthians Chapter 3
Chapter 3 is where we get the idea of baby Christians.
Paul says that he can not talk to them like spiritual people but as worldly people. This "milk" he is talking about is worldly things.
Solid food is a spiritual thing.
They are not developed enough in their walk for him to talk to them about spiritual matters. He says that he knows that they are not mature because of the "fruit" that they bear.
He calls them jealous and quarrelsome. these are two attributes that are opposite the fruits of the spirit.
In verse four, he references the division he discussed in chapter one.
verse 6 is deep:
- I planted the seed.
- Apollos watered it.
- God made it grow.
It wasn't Paul or Apollos that did anything
they were just doing a servants job.
It was the power of God which caused any growth what so ever.
Our leaders don't directly cause us to grow.
They just tend us as servants unto the Lord.
It is the sole responsibility of God to help us with our actual growth.
Paul warns us about the type of material we should build with on top of the foundation of Jesus Christ. He gives a list, it starts out with the most important material and then goes down from there.
- Gold
- Silver
- Costly Stones
- Wood
- Hay
- Straw
He says that "fire" will test these materials.
These materials represent the quality of our ministry and the amount of truth contained within it.
You'll notice that the materials towards the bottom of the list are more suseptable to fire.
He is saying that if we build upon the foundation of Christ with material that is not worthy, they will be burned up in the End.
People works will be devoured, but the person will be saved, only because they built their foundation on Christ in the frist place.
verse 16 talks about how God will not tolerate people damaging His temple. We are that temple and we should not damage ourselves.
Sin damages the temple.
in verse 18 he references chapter one by talking about how you mst become foolish in order to become wise.
in verse 21 he says to stop boasting about men, because all things belong to us as christians. We all, as christians, belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. Therefore everything belongs to God ultimately and therefore we should only boast in Him.
1st Corinthians Chapter 2
Starting out chapter 2, Paul prides himself of knowing little of worldly knowledge
in verse 2 he says "For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified."
Thats pretty simple. I know there was a man named Jesus. And I know he was crucified.
He is telling the people that this is all you need to know to have true wisdom.
He tells them that he came to them trembling and with fear, and the point of his visit wasn't to prove how charismatic he was, but to demonstrate to them the power of God. which we remember from chapter 1 verse 24 is actually Christ himself.
In verse 7 he says that God's wisdom is a secret.
He doesn't tell them this because he wants them to hide the reality of who Christ is, he is simply saying that not very many people knew who Christ really was.
He says in verse 8 that if the rulers of this world truly understood who Christ was, they never would have crucified him in the first place.
verse 9 says "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"
This means that nobody has seen what God sees, nobody has heard what God hears and nobody knows what God knows.
verse 11 says "For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God."
No man can understand another mans thoughts or plans, let alone Gods.
A man's spirit knows a man's thoughts. God's Spirit knows God's thoughts.
verse 12 says that we do not have the spirit of the world but the spirit of God, therefore we can know the thoughts of God because the Spirit of God searches the depths of the "Mind of God".
What is the spirit of the world?
I think he is saying that we no longer think, or see, or hear things the way the world sees them.
Upon receiving the spirit of God, we understand where God is coming from and we start seeing things from His perspective
Verse 14 says that a man without the Spirit of God can not accept the thoughts of God that come from the mouths of men, they are foolish to him because he can not understand them.
Without the spirit of God to "interpret" the thoughts of God, you are left with a meaningless bable, kind of like if you went to a country where you did not understand the language. People would make perfect sense to each other, but it would seem like nonsense to you.
Verse 15 says "The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment"
This does not mean that we don't judge things wrongly sometimes.
It simply means that we have the ability to judge things because we understand them as God understands them through his Spirit.
If we are not using the spirit to judge things and we are judging things from our own perspective, we are wrong.
Men without the Spirit can never judge things correctly because they forced to judge things from their own perspective, therefore forcing them to always be wrong.
They can not judge the judgement of the spirit, because they can not judge God.
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