How fun is this? I hope you and yours had an Easter experience worth repeating everyday!
Easter Opener 2012 from North Point Media on Vimeo.
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These two monkey are my sons. Ryan, the one on the left, is 10 years old and in the 5th grade. Dylan, the one that needs a haircut, is on the right and he’s 9 years old and in the 3rd grade. They are 100% boys, and I love to bounce things off them from time to time. I mean that both literally with objects and figuratively like books that publishers send me.
One of these such books is The Action Bible from my friends at David C. Cook. They’ve had an Action Bible in their bedrooms for over a year, so they were familiar with the graphical wonderland of this fun book. David C. Cook sent us a devotional for me try out, so I passed it on to the boys and told them I’d ask some questions after two weeks. (The devotion is broken up into one-a-week segments, but I asked them to complete at least 5 of the devotions. )
The questions are mine, but the responses are straight from them!
#1. Tell me about The Action Bible. What is it? How is it different than other bibles?
RYAN || Well, the action bible is totally different because it’s all in comic book form of the bible! It’s every thing a boy would love!DYLAN || It is different then other bibles becouse you can write in it and it gives me questions.
#2. What were some things you liked about the Action Bible Devotional?
RYAN || I liked the missions you had to do after you read the little comic. Like there was one where you had to build noahs’s ark out of legos or something. I also like the ‘x-ray vision’ which was about what the story meant and how to apply it to our lives.
DYLAN || I loved the missions most of all!
#3. Was it easy to use the devotional?
RYAN || Yes, it was very easy to use it with all the ‘inside information’ and instructions for the things you could do.
DYLAN || Yes, because you just write down whatever you learn from reading it.
#4. Is there something you didn’t like about the devotional?
RYAN || There isn’t anything that makes me not like it.DYLAN || Not really.
#5. Why is it important for kids like you to read the Bible?
RYAN || I think it’s important for kids like me to read the bible so we could know how to act like jesus and learn about making wise choices.
DYLAN || Because we learn stuff and when you learn stuff you get smarter.
Check out all of the newly released Action Bible tools.
I came across a fantastic infographic, and with it being Passion Week it seemed a fun thing to share. It is a chronological timeline of the major events that happened during Jesus’ last week before he died and rose again.
Each event is cross-referenced with the gospel(s) it is found in. It also includes major location changes as well as the relative possible timing of the Last Supper, Trial and Crucifixion.
Enjoy! (Click the image to make it much larger!)
The Friday Bag is my way of sharing some of what I find online each week. I save it and then I share it. Enjoy!
Living with Less. A Lot Less. – “Somehow this stuff ended up running my life, or a lot of it; the things I consumed ended up consuming me. My circumstances are unusual (not everyone gets an Internet windfall before turning 30), but my relationship with material things isn’t.”
PicMonkey: Photo Editor – I use this every time I use an image on my site. It’s easy to use, and has about a thousand uses. Go check it out!
Two Enemies Discover a Higher Call in Battle — “The pilot glanced outside his cockpit and froze. He blinked hard and looked again, hoping it was just a mirage. But his co-pilot stared at the same horrible vision.” // Any WWII historians out there? You’ll love this story of redemption.
Leaders of Courageous Character. Where are they? – “A true leader is more than someone who stands around telling others what to do expecting everyone to fall in line. Certainly a leader is to be a visionary. But a leader is also expected to be an advocate. A team looks to its leader to show them the way. But they also look to their leader for support.”
Michael Jordan Has Not Left the Building — “Five weeks before his 50th birthday, Michael Jordan sits behind his desk, overlooking a parking garage in downtown Charlotte. The cell phone in front of him buzzes with potential trades and league proposals about placing ads on jerseys. A rival wants his best players and wants to give him nothing in return.”
Bruce Feiler has a radical idea: To deal with the stress of modern family life, go agile. Inspired by agile software programming, Feiler introduces family practices which encourage flexibility, bottom-up idea flow, constant feedback and accountability. One surprising feature: Kids pick their own punishments.
Let’s take a break from our regularly scheduled programming. If there is one thing that I’m all about, it’s about solving all the world’s problems. One of those crazy, out-of-whack problems recently is how Instragram (owned by Facebook) and Twitter are being jerks to each other. In fact, they’ve gotten so stubborn with each other that recently Instagram stopped allowing Twitter to embed images inside the Twitter stream. This has left us with the serious problem of having to click Instagram links within someone’s twitter feed instead of just seeing their image automatically.
Then along comes “If THIS then THAT” and IFTTT provided the help that all of civilization has been waiting for. IFTTT is the greatest Internet thing around right now. I personally use it to make starred emails in Gmail go to Evernote, backup all my Instagram images into Dropbox, and send me a text each morning with the weather. It’s wonderful. Like a hot coffee in the morning kind of wonderful.
Here is the Twitter/Instagram workaround.
Step #1: Open an IFTTT account and tie in your Twitter and Instagram apps.
Step #2: Use this recipe below. If you click the image, it will take you to the actual recipe.
Step #3. Then when you update Instagram, unselect the “share with Twitter” button and enjoy the automation of:
—–>>>>>TO THIS —–>>>>
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You’re welcome. And if you don’t understand you can just go to IFTTT and read up on all the awesomeness that awaits you! And seriously… I know this isn’t a real-world problem. #firstworldproblems
