Category: Technology

A Big TV, Apple TV and Bible Classrooms!

Do your Bible class teachers need the use of a projector in the classroom?  Does your small church need an inexpensive way to get a presentation system.  Let me share something for you to consider.  At Seven Oaks for years one of our teachers used a large projector and large screen.  It never worked well …

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The Digital Library – Overdrive

I enjoy listening to audiobooks, but they are expensive to purchase.  I know if you listen to lots of them a paid lending service is a good option.  But it is hard to beat free! The local library here in Mayfield, Kentucky has a pretty good selection, but typically these are older books.   I …

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Your Facebook Attitude

“Facebook!” Love it or hate it.  You cannot deny it’s power and pervasiveness.  It has changed our culture. If you use Facebook, I want to ask you to consider this question: “What attitude are you bringing to Facebook?” So often it seems that people will put a status update about some current reflection, a funny …

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The Power of YouTube

Check out this infographic about YouTube.  It is pretty phenomenal. I first got it from Thom Rainer’s blog where he referenced it at Social News Daily. See my brief comments at the bottom.     I was amazed when I first read this because we have not watched Youtube that often.  In the last year we have watched …

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Introducing iTunes Podcast and More

Some exciting news and updates to share with you. Domain name change — You might have noticed that we changed the domain names of our sites.  We are now just — joshketchum.com and amandaketchum.com.  We dropped the KetchumKlan portion to make it simpler and also to remove any offense with the use of the term “Klan.”.  We …

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Danger of E-readers

E-readers, phone reading apps, and tablets have changed the reading landscape. Publishers now forecast e-readers and tablets to compromise 50% of the revenue market by 2020 of all books and magazines published. David Renard, an industry executive, stated, “We forecast that by 2020 there will be more than 1.1 billion tablets and e-paper e-readers in …

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Reducing the Noise!

In the last post I explored mind-food.  We have to manage our mind-food and it is very difficult in this world today with so many distractions.  One of my friends made me laugh with this tweet over the holidays:   Sid Gray ‏@sidgray Let’s not forget what the holidays are for: gathering around the table with …

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Get an App for the Bible on your Phone and Tablet

I like technology, but I only recently upgraded to a smart phone.  I got an iPhone 4s on Straight Talk.   I really enjoy it.  It has been great for our family and for my ministry.  We have had an iPad2 for the last year.  I am not going to call names (Seven Oak’s folks), …

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