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Israel Trip 2010 - Feb 16 - What Day Is It?

5:30AM Israel time... which means we will get a wakeup call in 15 minutes. Oy!

Israel Trip 2010 - Feb 14 - Last Minute

Feb 14: Scrambled around Gwinnett county to find spare batteries for my camcorder, only to end up right where I bought it in the first place, Fry's Electronics.

Reflections on Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture masterpiece

Last year, I had a Frank Lloyd Wright calendar on my office wall; the entry for Fallingwater noted the house was located in Pennsylvania. On

A 20-Year-Old Podcast: Special Deliverance, aka "Worldly Darkness High School"

In my sophomore year of college, a room-mate of mine loaned me a tape of a radio drama produced by an organization called Eternal Vision. It's part Pilgrim's Progress, part surreal, and completely thought-provoking.

Great news, fans! The CD is out of print, but you can buy Special Deliverance via iTunes!

Do You Know Who Your Kids are Texting?

So I'm settling in for the evening with my family, and I get a text message. I'll protect the sender's identification... for reasons you'll find quickly.

UStream.TV video of Oregon Trip posted

Some very generous venture capitalists have thrown a substantial amount of money to the folks at UStream.TV, enabling lowly folks like myself to broadcast video events on the Internet, using nothing more than a Flash-enabled browser. With an el-cheapo webcam and the broadband provided during our vacation to Oregon, I managed to wrangle up some material here on our UStream.TV feed page at http://www.ustream.tv/TroyAndJessica - check it out.

Berean Baptist Church choir on YouTube

Courtesy of some extensive work by our A/V system folks at church, our choir is on YouTube--or at least our voices are!

Berean Baptist Church to Appear on Good Morning America

On Sunday, February 3, 2008, our pastor, Dr. Dan Sweatt, informed the congregation that Berean Baptist Church may be included in a Good Morning America "Super Tuesday" Election episode on February 5.

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