The gospel coalition’s doctrine of church

(I know its been a while, but I'm going to just post away like nothing happened) I was having a look at the gospel coalition's lovely website when I came across this section in their doctrinal statement:

Asides ...

• Ben: I'm going to walk down to the apple store to get my copy after class if anyone wants to join me. Here are the new things in it for $39. In particular, this caught my eye: Bidirectional text. For languages that are written right to left, such as Hebrew and Arabic, Snow Leopard now elegantly handles mixing in left-to-right text. It also has a split-cursor option that shows the appropriate cursor direction at the boundary between right-to-left and left-to-right text. #
• Ben: As I've been thinking about our new church website, a new thought occurred to me. You probably already knew this, but I'll share it anyway. I had been thinking in terms of three groups of users. 1. The local person we'd like to come to our church, they need basic info - where and when - plus lots of good vibes. They find the site through Google or some other advertising. 2. The church member - they need details for events and more complex features like event sign up. 3. The Christian from another place who is looking for a sermon or resource. But what I hadn't considered was that a good church website really helps your church people extend an invitation to their friends and neighbours. Google isn't going to be your key referrer. It will be your number 2 people shooting an email to their number 1 person friends. #
• Caleb: I just discovered a brilliant online presentation tool called Prezi. It lets you create stunning presentations that go beyond the boring slide to slide Powerpoint experience we've grown accustom to. Anyone game enough to use it in a sermon? (Via TechCrunch) #
• Ben: Hans has some great thoughts on sermon branding. #
• Ben: There is a good discussion going on over at the sola panel about blogging. Started off as a discussion on post-length but its turned into a lively look at the way the whole blog-medium works. #