How To Get Your Wish

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Blind Bartimaeus and Mark 10:46-52 inform a message about “How To Get Your Wish”. Here’s some recommendations given in the message:

Be Present

Be Praying

Be Persistent

Be Prepared

Be Personal

Click to listen to the message given by me at the church I serve at Goodyear Heights Presbyterian Church, in Akron, Ohio on October 28, 2012

Listen to Make A Wish Come True

My Favorite Olympic Video Spoof

My daughter claims she was embarrassed when I performed this Olympic homage at the community pool in the late eighties….

From the Google Video description: Harry Shearer’s masterpeice on the art of Synchro swimming, featuring Martin Short and Christopher Guest.

Can Power Be Good?

Did your credit call ever call you as you left the store? Mine did. 

Here is the audio portion of Sunday’s message about power.

10 Reasons To Use PDF files instead of Word files

Ever get a poster, announcement, or handout in Word format that wouldn’t print right? If the person sent the information in PDF (Portable Document Format) you could print with confidence from any computer on any printer. PDF was designed to make printing easy regardless of the varieties of computer and printer combinations.

Here are 10 reasons PDF files are better for distributing information than Microsoft Word files, (which are made for easy editing not universal distribution and printing.)

1. Word reformats documents every time it opens a document on a different computer.
2. Word reformats docs every time a different printer is chosen even on the same computer.
3. This reformatting can change page numbers on long documents, ruining references and producing different versions for different people.
4. Reformatting can put hyphens in the middle of sentences making meaning of words harder to understand (mis-son or mission?).
5. Old versions of Word cannot open versions formatted for newer versions of Word (2007 vs, 2003 vs, 2000 vs. 97).
6. Word documents can easily be changed either accidentally or for reasons not agreeable to the author.
7. Every version of Word (or Word with add-ons to view different versions of Word files) is not available on all computers 
8. Free PDF viewers are easily available while Word is a commerical program that users must pay to obtain and upgrade.
9. PDF is created for electronic distribution and use on a wide variety of computer configurations.
10. PDF can be easily opened and viewed from the web sites.

PDF viewers

You probably already have one on your computer.  

Adobe is the creator of PDF and has the most common reader It is free, but I recommend unchecking the option box that installs McAfee Security Scan.

FoxIt Reader is also free and less demanding on computers. 

Making a PDF file

Version 2007 of Microsoft Office has a free download plug-in that will save files as PDF

Recent versions of Wordperfect have a built-in option to print to PDF

PrimoPDF has a free version that installs as a “printer” that prints by saving a PDF version of the document (or any file) to your computer.

CutePDF also installs as a “printer”

Wikipedia has a list of other PDF programs 

Online options (nothing to install!) include NitroPDF’s free pdftoword and Adobe’s CreatePDF (previously free, an annual paid subscription required) You send a file via a web page and they email you a link to download the PDF file in a few hours.

The original post was on Eastminster Presbytery’s website.

What Kind of Church Will We Be?

From Luke 18:9-14

A message in the wake of this year’s Presbyterian General Assembly looking at the church through the lens of unity and purity: What Kind of Church Will We Be about the struggles among the faithful and the possibility of help in Sinners Anonymous.