I had the privilege again this morning of being a guest on The Techology Show this morning. We chatted about a variety of subjects including Rob Bell & his book “Love Wins”. We also chatted in length about the book “Heaven is For Real” by Todd Burpo which I reviewed here a few months ago.
Here is the video of today’s podcast:
Thanks to Tony, Heath, Matthew, and Steve for inviting me again to be involved in this!
Right now, Amazon is offering the eBook, “The Very First Easter” for FREE through the Amazon store.
STOP. I know what you’re thinking: “I don’t have a Kindle, so I this is a worthless blog post.” Well let me tell you that I don’t have a Kindle either and I’ve already downloaded this book on my phone AND my laptop!
The whole eBook craze is a bit overwhelming for sure, but if you’ll take a moment to realize how YOU can get in on the craze WITHOUT having to buy another $200 gadget, you might learn something.
Amazon offers a Kindle “app” for many platforms:
Kindle for PC
Kindle for iPhone or iPod
Kindle for Blackberry
Kindle for iPad
Kindle for Android
Once you “purchase” a book (this one is FREE, mind you) you can automatically send it to any device that you have installed the application on and the next time you open that application the book will download and you can begin reading!
How cool is that? And what are you waiting for? Most Kindle books are listed CHEAPER than the print-copies, so you might be more-inclined to buy the book as an eBook and save a few bucks and read it on your phone, iPad, laptop, or even desktop computer!
Now, more about the book…
In “The Very First Easter“, children will learn the story of Christ’s death and resurrection, and the reason we celebrate Easter. Featuring The Beginner’s Bible vibrant art this book will delight children as they learn what Jesus did for them.
The book weighs in at a lightweight 31-pages. If you choose to download it, let me know in the comments! And let me know if listing FREE (or greatly discounted) books like this is something you’d be interested in here on stevansheets.com!
I received the following email last evening with the subject line, “We’re sorry you may have had trouble watching instantly”:
As you can see, the email was from Netflix and I was quite taken back as I read and then re-read it.
My family and I were away all-day on this purported service-interruption of Netflix’s streaming service that we subscribe to, but Netflix sent us the email anyway and offered us 3% off of our monthly bill for the trouble. (no, we didn’t take it)
Sure, 3% of $7.99 is “nothing”, but the service behind it is what is impressive to me.
Netflix left the decision up to me about whether to ask for my refund. I liked that. Trusting consumers isn’t a very popular thing these days I don’t think, so when it happens, I choose to highlight it and applaud it!
And I think there is something further to learn in other contexts via this example. We, as a people, are quite untrusting, too! What if we learned to stop being so untrusting all the time, took a risk and attempted to trust “outdide the box”? I can’t imagine that Netflix only refunded the 3% bill to those who actually experienced service interruption, and yet they went for a “mass-trust” of their customers and won!
Where are we missing out by not trusting?
The neighbor we don’t yet know?
The cafe down the street that we haven’t yet tried?
Trusting God with our finances? (I aknowledge the big leap here, but I think it makes a point)
I want to trust like Netflix, take faith-risks, trust in new ways that are unpopular and maybe even dangerous…
I think it’s what Jesus calls us to when he says, “Come follow me.”
Thanks for the reminder, Netflix.
This morning, Amazon launched “Amazon Cloud Drive” a brand-new storage solution for those of us who use multiple computers and devices. With the launch, Amazon is offering 5GB of FREE storage. 5GB is enough space to store about 1,000 songs or about 2,000 photos.
The benefit of storing in the “cloud” is that our files are ALWAYS available (so long as we have an Internet connection). This means that if we store a photo or a song via the Amazon Cloud, it can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection WITHOUT having to copy that file TO that actual computer. Amazon also updated their “Amazon MP3 App” for Android to allow us to stream any song in our storage cloud directly to any Android device, too! I can now access 5GB of songs on ANY Internet-connected computer and my cell phone! How cool is that?
With their newly launched “Cloud Drive”, Amazon is also offering a year of 20GB storage for FREE with the purchase of ANY album via their Amazon MP3 store. (There are “albums” that cost ONLY $.69, by the way)
One of the other benefits of “the cloud” via Amazon is that ANY MP3 purchased from Amazon will NOT count against our storage limit – we can purchase 50GB (or more!) of music through Amazon MP3 and still use ONLY the FREE “Cloud Drive” account of 5GB storage.
Sound confusing? Watch this video explaining Amazon’s Cloud Drive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_5h5vSlhHE
No video? Click here.
Sign up for Amazon’s Cloud Drive today for FREE 5GB storage!
MinistryMatters.com – looks like there is yet another ministry resources website that is soon-to-launch.
Thousands of free resources for church leaders that will change the way you prepare for Sunday.
Judging from their promo video and basic shell of a website, I’ve already added this one to my favorites for future reference.
They’re telling us to text “MINISTRY” to 41411 to get in on the beta experience. I’m hoping this leads to pre-launch access of the site and I’ll post some updates if this is the case!
