Comments on: Reading your Bible, geek style http://www.ichurch.co.za/blog/2007/01/18/reading-your-bible-geek-style/ Sat, 19 May 2012 10:59:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: moose http://www.ichurch.co.za/blog/2007/01/18/reading-your-bible-geek-style/#comment-3255 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:36:31 +0000 http://www.ichurch.co.za/blog/2007/01/18/reading-your-bible-geek-style/#comment-3255 Topher.... you see here's the thing, all this tech overload while i have been here (in the UK) has done just that to me.... especially been out in the UK largely on my own, you'd think there would be more time for God, you know in all those lonely moments and stuff. But somehow it just don't seem that way. Anything from all those funky RSS feeds that you taught me so well how to use, to the latest podcasts, whether Christian, news, whatever... In fact i think my tendency has been to know absolutely everything that is in the news, like first thing i do when i get home is flick on to BBC news (there really are no other better channels!). THen i am on the net, maybe check out the M&G back home... quickly push play on 702's Africa Report podcast... And if it is not that, then it is the insane access to all things sport... as we speak, I am browsing iChurch, listening to the cricket on streaming audio, and have the FA Cup football on the TV... oh and of course I have all those instant messenger efforts running as well... and am in the middle of a conversation as I type! So I so get how quickly time slips away. But I have managed to at least try use the good old technology to my spiritual advantage... like this week when I downloaded 3 sermons on Tuesday night from the Church I was at in Southampton earlier this year, popped them onto my iPod, and listened to them on the tube on the way to work the following 3 days. Any massive spiritual epiphanies? Nope, but I know the potential is there... i just wish they would turn up the volume on the recording, cause it is pretty hard to hear a contemplative preacher above the screaming rail tracks and the reverberating train engine (or whatever it is that drives those things) oh and kudos to the guys who brought the Bible to my cellphone... many an opportunity on the train to check out some verses... nice one. But there just aint no substitue for turning off the TV, laptop, iPod, cellphone, sitting on the couch, and talking to God. The band width on that connection is infinite Topher….

you see here’s the thing, all this tech overload while i have been here (in the UK) has done just that to me…. especially been out in the UK largely on my own, you’d think there would be more time for God, you know in all those lonely moments and stuff. But somehow it just don’t seem that way. Anything from all those funky RSS feeds that you taught me so well how to use, to the latest podcasts, whether Christian, news, whatever…

In fact i think my tendency has been to know absolutely everything that is in the news, like first thing i do when i get home is flick on to BBC news (there really are no other better channels!). THen i am on the net, maybe check out the M&G back home… quickly push play on 702’s Africa Report podcast…

And if it is not that, then it is the insane access to all things sport… as we speak, I am browsing iChurch, listening to the cricket on streaming audio, and have the FA Cup football on the TV… oh and of course I have all those instant messenger efforts running as well… and am in the middle of a conversation as I type!

So I so get how quickly time slips away. But I have managed to at least try use the good old technology to my spiritual advantage… like this week when I downloaded 3 sermons on Tuesday night from the Church I was at in Southampton earlier this year, popped them onto my iPod, and listened to them on the tube on the way to work the following 3 days. Any massive spiritual epiphanies? Nope, but I know the potential is there… i just wish they would turn up the volume on the recording, cause it is pretty hard to hear a contemplative preacher above the screaming rail tracks and the reverberating train engine (or whatever it is that drives those things)

oh and kudos to the guys who brought the Bible to my cellphone… many an opportunity on the train to check out some verses… nice one.

But there just aint no substitue for turning off the TV, laptop, iPod, cellphone, sitting on the couch, and talking to God. The band width on that connection is infinite

]]> by: topher http://www.ichurch.co.za/blog/2007/01/18/reading-your-bible-geek-style/#comment-653 Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:11:43 +0000 http://www.ichurch.co.za/blog/2007/01/18/reading-your-bible-geek-style/#comment-653 I wouldn't worry too much about that Michael! Thanks for all the hard work you put into the podcast - it's touching so many lives. I wouldn’t worry too much about that Michael! Thanks for all the hard work you put into the podcast - it’s touching so many lives.

]]> by: michael Lee http://www.ichurch.co.za/blog/2007/01/18/reading-your-bible-geek-style/#comment-644 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:39:31 +0000 http://www.ichurch.co.za/blog/2007/01/18/reading-your-bible-geek-style/#comment-644 Thanks for the link-in to The Bible Podcast. Reading the scripture along with the podcast sounds like a good way to focus in on the text. My only concern is that I tend to make quick slip-of-the-tongue mistakes in the reading, and if too many people follow along with the printed text, they'll start calling my on it! Thanks for the link-in to The Bible Podcast. Reading the scripture along with the podcast sounds like a good way to focus in on the text. My only concern is that I tend to make quick slip-of-the-tongue mistakes in the reading, and if too many people follow along with the printed text, they’ll start calling my on it!

]]> by: joe http://www.ichurch.co.za/blog/2007/01/18/reading-your-bible-geek-style/#comment-643 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:39:49 +0000 http://www.ichurch.co.za/blog/2007/01/18/reading-your-bible-geek-style/#comment-643 I'm glad to know I'm not the only victim of information overload! Thanks for sharing your tips :) I think #1 is the most fitting for me. I spend way too much time in front of the PC. Logging off, walking away from the computer, and carrying nothing electronic sounds like the best strategy for me personally. And my weekly small group should be a good opportunity for me to do that. Clearing my head and praying for the Spirit to reveal something new - now why didn't I think of that!? Peace. joe I’m glad to know I’m not the only victim of information overload! Thanks for sharing your tips :) I think #1 is the most fitting for me. I spend way too much time in front of the PC. Logging off, walking away from the computer, and carrying nothing electronic sounds like the best strategy for me personally.

And my weekly small group should be a good opportunity for me to do that. Clearing my head and praying for the Spirit to reveal something new - now why didn’t I think of that!?

Peace.
joe

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