Author: Glen

PersonalMDiv.com

I’ve been slowly stewing an idea in my brain for a few days now, and I finally decided to act on it. I noticed the creation of personalmba.com with interest, but didn’t think much about it until I saw that Jordon Cooper was inspired to create a comparable M. Div. list (thanks to Andrew Jones for pointing it out).

Anyway, I noticed that there was some criticism of the overall idea and of the specific book choices (some of the criticism was thoughtful, some was knee-jerk). I thought it would be great to create a wiki to let the broader community craft a list of books, articles, and projects that would really make a difference in someone’s ministry.

So I did. I present PersonalMDiv.com.

Have at it.

Everyone Has A Blog…

There’s a few small things I’ve been meaning to post for a while, but that I just haven’t gotten around to:

One of our students, Alan Asbeck, was featured on television for a patent application involving a wall-climbing robot. How cool is that?

My pastor has a blog now: check out Scott Aughtmon at Random Ramblings of a Church Gatherer.

In fact, more and more of my friends are blogging.

And those are just people that I actually have a real-life, 3D relationship with. If you count people I’ve met at conferences (such as Andrew Careaga) or in passing (like Mark Batterson), the list would be ridiculously longer.

Media Shout 3.0

I finally got my upgrade copy of MediaShout in the mail yesterday.

Wow.

This release fixes everything I’ve ever disliked about MediaShout and adds tons of new features I’d never considered.

The three best upgrades:
* You can play just a specific, custom clip from a DVD. So you just want to play from 1.54.36 to 1.57.12? Done.
* All songs now have permanent formatting stored in the database. No need to reformat every stinking time you use the song!
* You can edit text cues directly from within the program–no more random RTF files lying about.

Also, it looks like they’re trying to break into the VJ market–the new version includes better support for mixing video feeds on the fly. Still, it just doesn’t compare to Arkaos in that department.

The one thing I really wish they had done was include the Greek & Hebrew Bibles (they include the Latin Vulgate–why not the original text?).

Overall, I’m thrilled.

On The Facebook

I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this on my website, but I’m on the Facebook.

I bring this up for two reasons:

  1. If you’re a new student coming to Stanford feel free to scope us (Chi Alpha) out online. Also check xaStanford.org and Chi Alpha on the Facebook. Feel free to join our Facebook group without any sense of long-term obligation.
  2. If I’ve met you at a conference or something you can feel free to add me as a Facebook friend. Just do a global search for Glen Davis at Stanford (the global search link is at the top of the page under the fa in facebook).

Superfluity of Naughtiness

I rarely look at the King James translation, but today I happened to glance at it while preparing for a conference:

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. James 1:21, KJV

That’s right: we are to avoid a superfluity of naughtiness.

What beautiful phrasing.

Half Blind In Bangkok

I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while, but my brother is half-blind in Bangkok right now. He’s on a mission trip and got some sort of infection behind his eyeball (yuck).

It sounds like he’s going to be A‑OK, but I’m sure it’s quite disturbing to fall ill in another country. Especially a non-Western one.

On the plus side, he had travel insurance and so everything is paid for. It’s far better for him financially than it would have been in America. And whatever he has isn’t something he got in Thailand–it was developing before he left.

Anyway, he should be coming back this weekend. Until then, I’ll keep thinking about Murray Head’s One Night In Bangkok.

Absolutely Amazing

I listen to MP3s when I bike to campus. Not music, as I really don’t like music all that much; rather, I soak up lecture/seminar/sermonic stuff. I get a lot of them from Discipleship Library and I’ve recently started downloading some from IT Conversations.

Anyway, I recently listened to Ben Saunders’ amazing story. He made a solo expedition to the North Pole and really knows how to spin the tale. I was agog. Highly recommended.