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So here’s the scoop. I’ve been thinking about a lot of things and have a lot of things I’d like to say here on wanting-more but as the title states I hate typing.

I thought to myself “I own a recording studio for crying out loud.  Just record what you want to say  and put that up.” Not really switching it to a podcast as I’d like to occasionally type somethings. So I’ve spent a chunk of time the last two weeks  figuring out how to best implement this in WordPress and it was going to be too big of a pain and probably cause me to have to change my web hosting package. Not really interested in all this.

Then it was pointed out to me I have a camcorder. Why not do video posts then embed them from Vimeo or Youtube.  I could even do it from my iPhone and upload from there.

While I really don’t like the idea of my face being on here it will allow me to share my thoughts a lot easier, quicker and without all the poor grammar.  I do a lot of work with a video producer so overtime I might work on making it higher quality but we’ll see.

Don’t worry they won’t be long videos. Just short 2 minutes clips. It will probably be quicker to watch then to read. So over the next few days I’ll try it out and see how it goes.

Blessings

On a side note I just noticed according to the spell checker in WordPress, WordPress  is spelled wrong.

So after much kicking and screaming I joined Twitter. I started a personal account a few weeks ago but wanted to start one where I could share more of my thoughts on God and church.  So if you are on Twitter you can follow me @wanting_more

Here on the wanting-more.ca website there is a widget on the right hand side that will display my most recent “tweets”. I’m thinking that Twitter will be the place I blurt out the large number of thoughts I have during the day that I’m not able to blog about.

Happy Tweeting

Here is a clip of an interview he did with Dag Soderberg who published a new version of the bible. It’s called “The Book; The Bible Illuminated”.  Again here is a link to the clip.

I’m not going to comment too much on the book because I haven’t seen or read it but some of the statements that were made really grabbed my attention and resonated with me.  Mr. Soderberg said that the bible was the “most referenced yet least read book. ” That his organization’s goal is to bring about discussion and bring the bible “from the book shelf to the coffee table. ”

I’m totally into their goals for the bible, but I don’t want to get to excited because I don’t know too much about this version.  Like I said I resonate with all of their goals and want to see Christians engage the world but I want them to engage the world with Jesus.  Are the pictures and things they’ve added going to help engage the world with Christ and His message or are they a cool way to sell books and going to be a distraction from the message?

Again I haven’t seen the book so I’m not going to give my opinion on it. I just want to be careful before I get to excited about it. I did a very quick google search and didn’t see any rage over the book but nothing that seemed to rant and rave over it (other than the publishers homepage). I’ll probably order a copy because I’d love to see it and know if it could be a useful ministry tool and when I do I’ll write a review.

Has anyone seen the book or any thorough reviews? Anyone have any thoughts on what their trying to do?

Found this really cool video on YouTube that I thought I’d share. Just an awesome example of thinking outside the box creativity. RSS readers will need to click to the site.