Jun 29 2009

My Dad {& I’m Spoiled}

Ok, so I’m spoiled. I have an incredible wife, a great job at a great church…and a great set of parents.

This morning I’m sitting in Starbucks with my dad who is visiting from {crazy} Cali…he’s not only sharing his wi-fi code with me – but giving me another glimpse into his life.

Dad in StarbucksHe’s sitting with his macbook pro, iPhone…and most importantly, a Bible and set of pencils and highlighters to mark the thing up as he studies.

Like I said, I’m spoiled.

Who in your life inspires you to be better? If they blog, link to it in your comment.

Travis


Jun 17 2009

Geek Stuff

Wordpress.org

For those of you who use Wordpress, the 2.8 upgrade is so worth it.

Call me names if you want, I’m right.

Travis


Jun 15 2009

Monday Monday

Oh, the day after Sunday. Had a rough spot yesterday in V2 .

Technology + live action + 100 yards between the main service and ours = guaranteed rough spots.

Sigh, next week will be better.

If you were there, this is your chance to comment on how awkward it truly was.

Travis


Jun 3 2009

Sometimes you win…with a little bit of loss

Winner!

I’m still learning the proper balance of celebrating wins that aren’t total wins.  Like when you have something go really well, but as you walk away you see all the things that could {maybe should} have been better and it takes some of the win out of it.

Here’s to growth!

Do you know what I mean?

Travis


Jun 1 2009

Welcome to Summer

This is a video from a photo shoot {by my awesome wife}.  She was taking shots to put in my office for the summer {genius} and after reviewing them I couldn’t resist movieing them.  Yeah, add that word to your list.

Enjoy.

 

What is your favorite childhood summer memory?

Travis


May 30 2009

Modern Church

So one of the things I love about my job is keeping up on technologies that can be used to further what God is doing through Faith…it is also one of the hard parts of what I do.  This week, for example, I caught the end of a live video cast from Tucson on how to use StreamingChurch.tv - and of course how it is “necessary” for us and how it will pay for itself.  That part is good. I’m kidding – it’s all good.

StreamingChurch.tv

There are just WAY too many options out there – and my job is to figure out which ones we utilize and which ones we respectfully decline.

One book I read {The Blogging Church} said you have to figure out whether the new technology is a tool or a toy.  Not 100% on this one yet.  Could be both…

I need more prayer on this one.

Would you watch a live service online and spend time commenting back and forth with people or would you rather just watch and not have other stuff going on? Or would you be fine with a video from a few days earlier?

Travis


May 29 2009

Unbelievable

Not only is ‘Unbelievable’ the name for the song in this video – but the animation and clever elements are pretty unbelievable as well.  Wait, can you say something is pretty and unbelievable at the same time?

Click here to view the commercial – trust me, it’s clever

unbelievable, coke zero

Travis