Who Are These Guys: How to record a podcast on your mac with skype on the cheap!
Well, I tried to put a tutorial together here as a blog post, but I couldn’t get the images to format right and all that stuff. BUT, I just went ahead and created an E-Book on the subject of How to record a podcast on your Mac on the Cheap!
Let me know what you think, it is my first ebook, but I think it isn’t to shabby!
(Oh, and share this with a bunch of people, blog about it or whatever, fun!)
The Flux Capacitor Pre-Episode #3
Finally, we get to release a new podcast!In this episode you will get to experience some of the best audio mixing and sound EVER (and by best I mean really really bad!). Apparently I was holding my nose at the beginning while Josh entered in and out of caves and was security checked by a couple of wookies. Ack!But we get a chance to talk about our American Idol finale adventure and get on a roll about connecting and enabling volunteers with opportunities in ministry.(Flux capacitor)
Site Highlight:. FeedBurner
If you have ever had to explain what an RSS feed is to a person in your church, then you know that a lot of people don’t know WHAT they are, WHY they are helpful, and HOW to read/subscribe to them. Now, as time goes on and they start to realize the best part about RSS feeds is that you are in control of whether or not you receive them, the more they will like them.
Until then we have FeedBurner to the rescue. FeedBurner is a site that can help your (in their words) Analyze, Optimize and Publicize your RSS feeds. For a free service it has an unbelievable amount of enhancements that it offers you and your feeds, but there is one in particular that we are looking at today.
RSS to Email! As painful as it would be for me to think about taking the beauty of an RSS feed and retro fitting it into an Email, it is actually one of the most powerful features of the service. Here is why:
- Most people in a church are already familiar with email, and would prefer to receive your articles this way.
- FeedBurner provides you with a nice form and/or link to place on your blog or site for people to put their email addresses into and subscribe. It looks professional, and is super easy (just copy and paste).
- FeedBurner keeps track of the database of emails that have been submitted, meaning you don’t have to! You don’t have to keep track or maintenance anything. If people want to opt out, FeedBurner takes care of it. You didn’t get into ministry to figure out servers and email lists, and now you don’t have to!
- FeedBurner doesn’t end up in spam! Mass Email systems and getting to people’s Inboxes is a whole Industry, you don’t have time to learn it, or even care. But with FeedBurner, all the emails are sent from their servers, and are optimized to make it to people’s “inbox”.
- The titles in the email link back to your blog or site, so if people want to read more or comment they can.
What would you like to hear about?
Josh and I are obviously blog and podcast uber geeks, we are passionate about ministry, we love the Church, and we like cheeseburgers.
What kind of stuff would you guys like to hear about?
Episode 2
Episode 1
Faith and Endurance
Endurance is certainly not something we like to have tested. Unless you are one of the weird-os that loved Cross County and running around in embarrassingly short shorts. Today the whole pace of life is fast, instant, on demand, live. Fast food feels to slow; we can’t fast forward through the commercials with our Tivo soon enough, even the search engines on our computers now does a live search as we type the letters in cause we can’t wait to get to the result. The current pace of life is hurried and blindingly fast, and that is why times that require strong endurance can quickly knock us off our feet.
James 1:2-4 is one of the passages that consistently gives my attitude and heart a hard kick in the pants.
James 1:2-4 (NLT)
“2 Dear brothers and sisters, whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy.
3 For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.”
Many times I am praying for God to do this, and do that, and to take away hardship. When in reality I am asking God to take away the teaching and testing I need to be ready for anything.
But the phrase that has caught my eye today is in verse 3, “… your endurance has a chance to grow.” When our faith is tested, meaning when our life can’t be lived in our own power – by choice or situation, there is “a chance” for our endurance to grow. It is not automatic. The growth ties back into our attitude of Joy in the midst of trouble.
I have definitely done this wrong. Several troubles or hardships that I have gone through, I have done the mumbling and grumbling. I have gossiped, I have talked behind people’s backs, I have had the wrong attitude, and it was certainly not a time of Joy. I think when you remove Joy you remove the opportunity to grow because when you are complaining and grumbling you have given up. You have given into letting an event, situation or person control you. Instead of deciding to have an attitude of Joy, I have given over to the worse case scenario of life lived in my own power. An attitude of Joy can really only come from fully trusting that God is in control, AND that he is faithful and good at being in control of our lives.
This thought reminds me of a quote from David Allen author of Getting Things Done, “The better you get, the better you better get.” He is speaking about that in terms of personal productivity and the corporate world, but how much could that easily apply to the building of our faith and endurance?
So what does it take for God to slow us down and teach us endurance? Well it takes Joy on our part, and it takes a peace that only comes from trusting in God with abandon. With abandon … hmm that sounds risky…
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