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Late last week, the website for the SBC Pastors’ Conference was finally launched.  Sherwood has the privilege of hosting the event this year and the website is one of the ways we are communicating all the details.

I choose to build the site on the Wordpress platform because of its ability of blogging (a prayer journey leading up to the conference) and custom themes over Adobe’s Flash and E-zekiel. The latest version of Wordpress, 2.5, was used with the following plugins: Kimili Flash Embed and Ultimate Google Analytics. If comments were open on the site, Akismet would have been turned on as well.

Brian and Bobbie Houston’s website was the starting idea or inspiration for the site design, my new friend Bryan Haynes pointed me in the right direction to embed the Flash portions into IE, and dhawker quickly found bad links and graphic issues. Thanks for your help.

Check out sbcpc.net and join us April 29 on the website for the beginning of the prayer journey leading up until the 2008 SBC Pastors’ Conference.

Side note: Sherwood Pictures will have a preview showing of Fireproof Sunday, June 08 before the Pastors’ Conference at 2pm. All attendees are welcome and encouraged to attend.

I have not written in a long super long time.  So here is a quick update.

1) I still messed up another update of this site even after reading my own blog about backing up files.  There is a style file somewhere that I have to backup before upgrading.  Or I could copy the text out of the sidebar file before upgrading.  Either one would save me some time.

I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.RC1 release and like what I see so far.

2) This year’s ReFRESH conference was awesome.

3) My Princess turned 7 and the Strongman turned 4. Both kids had parties here at the house.  Dee did a great job planning and prepping for both parties.

4) The Fireproof website has officially launched. Check out the His & Hers video section.

5) Struggling to find great music this year. I am open to suggestions.

6) Getting ready for another trip to Passion.

7) I enjoyed our Easter holiday today.

I have been thinking about some things to focus on for 2008:

Eat Better
Exercise More
Read More
Study the Bible More
Work Smarter with Fewer Hours
Hang Out with my Kids More
Have a Bigger Impact in Ministry (people)

Focusing on seven items seems intimidating at the moment. Maybe this list will help me decide when to say “no” to instead of striving for another “yes.”

I downloaded two CD’s last night.

The first was “Give Yourself Away” from the Robbie Seay Band. I have toyed with getting this CD since its release back in August. Amazon currently has it for $8. Favorite songs so far: Song of Hope, Stay and Beautiful, Scandalous Night.

The second was “Become Who You Are” by Mainstay. I was introduced to Mainstay when iTunes gave away the first song off the CD. The song, Become Who You Are, is still my favorite. I was a little disappointed at first listen; I thought the CD would be heavier than it turned out to be though I am hoping it will grow on me. Like “Give Yourself Away,” I have had my eye on getting this CD for a few months. The decision was sealed when Walmart offered it at $5.

If you have not discovered it yet, the Fireproof team has setup a blog.  They are writing a story for each day of the shoot and posting it the next day.  The blog is well done and includes lots of behind the scenes photographs and “inside” stories.