connecting to the world

It seemed like such a simple proposition when my friend Rick said, "Why don't we post your sermons to the world wide web. I can't even remember when the project began. Rick purchased a piece of equipment a year or so ago that could record audio directly to CD's. This technology allowed us to burn cd's, thus leaving us with an audio file that was in digital instead of analog format. That file could then be loaded into any computer. Next Rick figured out how to download a free file to edit this information. This digital language conversion and track formatting made it possible for our computer to communicate with the rest of the computers in the world.

For a long time neither of us could figure out how to post this information to our website, even though we now had a website, thanks to our resourceful volunteer Lisa. When I finally communicated to the people who host our website, they indicated that we had already purchased the resources to make it possible for us to post audio files. We were simply not using the resources we had available.

For the next 24 hours, I worked to get the proper codes, links, programs, etc. until I finally was able to make audios of our Sunday messages available on the web. Yea! Check it out at tcchrist.com.

So, here I am thinking about what just happened. We wanted to get the message of Christ out to the world. We needed to convert our message into the language of the world. We had to work together. We had to realize that many of the road blocks that we thought were there to successfully accomplishing our work didn't even exist. And finally, we had to be persistent if we cared about sharing the gospel. Wow! I guess I (we) learned more than how to post an audio file.

plou (trying to connect to the world)

Western Church Dating of Easter

Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar the Hebrew people used to identify passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.

Here's the interesting info. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here's the facts:

1. The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).

2. The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!