One Day Remaining for MacHeist nanoBundle 3 ($9.99)
The clock is ticking on the MacHeist nanoBundle 3—you’ve got one day left to pick it up. At $9.99, this bundle is a great value. Here’s are the highlights:
Path Finder ($40) — This app has been on my wish list for a long time now. Path Finder is a powerful file manager and Finder replacement for your Mac. It was unlocked as a part of the bundle after 30,000 had been sold. I expect to use this app daily.
Fantastical ($20) — I already own Fantastical. It’s my go–to calendar application 95% of the time. It allows you to create meetings and appointments using natural language.
Clarify ($30) — This app makes quick work of creating how–tos, instructions, and tutorials using screenshots, annotations, and text. I’m really excited about putting this app to work.
AirServer ($15) — This is another app I’ve had my eye on for some time now. AirServer allows your Mac to receive AirPlay feeds, similar to Apple TV. Slick.
xScope ($30) – A set of measuring tools for designers and developers. I’m not a designer or developer, but I can see this app coming in handy every now and again.
iStopMotion ($50) — Create your own stop motion animation. I doubt I’ll use this app often, but I’m definitely looking forward to playing around with it.
Little Inferno ($10) — Burn stuff.
CleanMyMac 2 ($40) — I’ve never been a big fan of utilities like this, but I might just give it a try. I can use all the help I can get getting rid of junk and freeing up space on my modest–sized SSD.
Totals ($40) — A tool for creating invoices.
?????? — There is one application yet to be revealed. It’s identity remains a mystery.
This bundle includes several great applications and it’s selling at an outstanding price. Jump on it soon—there’s only one day left.
GTD and Your Productivity Tools
David Allen on using tools with GTD:
The strange paradox with all of this is that the less the tools matters, in other words, the more you really get the methodology of GTD, the more the tools matters.
Did he just say “PDA?”
The Scope and Subtlety of the Gospel
I’m currently reading Unbelievable Gospel: How to Share a Gospel Worth Believing by Jonathan Dodson in preparation for an upcoming Classroom Series session 2 Pillars Church is holding on Evangelism. In the opening chapter, Dodson observes the following about the gospel:
The gospel is both bigger and smaller than we think. Sometimes we can’t imagine the scope of the gospel, as news so good that it changes everything—society, culture, and creation. People really need to hear this. This vision of reality is better than anyone can imagine. The good news of the gospel is better than the best news people can conceive. Others times, we can’t imagine the subtlety of the gospel, that it brings us exactly what we need in Christ: acceptance, approval, forgiveness, newness, healing, worth, purpose, joy, hope, peace, and freedom, all in Jesus. The gospel is bigger and smaller than we think, as big as the cosmos and as small as you and me. It is the good and true news that Jesus has defeated sin, death, and evil through his own death and resurrection and is making all things new, even us!
This is the good news of the gospel. This is the message Christians are called to share. This is the message Christians get to share! It’s implications are huge and cosmic on the one hand, subtle and deeply personal on the other.
I’m really looking forward to this upcoming installment of the Classroom Series. We’ll be seeking to grow in our own understanding of this good news and our calling to proclaim it. We’ll also spend time discussing the practical how–tos of evangelism. It’s shaping up to be a great morning.
Join us on April 20 if you’re in the Lincoln area.
Tim Challies on Discernment Bloggers
Tim Challies wrote some passionate words about so–called discernment bloggers today. His conclusion:
But I will not read any more shocking exposes built on nothing more than one sides accusations and angry conjectures. I am not going to read about this persons finances and that persons leadership style. I am not going to allow people with so little integrity, with so little concern for truth and love, to violate my conscience, pollute my mind, and disrupt my love for others. And I’d encourage you to join me.
Well said. I’m in.
How to Start Anything
Mike Williams, president and CEO of the David Allen Company, talks with Inc.’s Jeff Haden about how to be more productive when starting anything:
A great way to be significantly more productive is to start anything you’re about to do with one question: What does a wildly successful outcome for this meeting, project, conversation–whatever it might be–look like? If you ask that question up front you co-create success: Everyone knows what you’re shooting for and actively works towards making it happen.
Victory in Christ
I ran across this incredible John Calvin quote today as I was reading Rid of My Disgrace, by Justin Holcomb. Take a few moments to read it, be encouraged and may it cause you to worship Jesus:
Every good thing we could think or desire is to be found in this same Jesus Christ alone. For, He was sold, to buy us back; captive, to deliver us; condemned, to absolve us; He was made a curse for our blessing, sin offering for our righteousness; marred that we may be made fair; He died for our life; so that by Him fury is made gentle, wrath appeased, darkness turned into light, fear reassured, despisal despised, debt canceled, labor lightened, sadness made merry, misfortune made fortunate, difficulty easy, disorder ordered, division united, ignominy ennobled, rebellion subjected, intimidation intimidated, ambush uncovered, assaults assailed, force forced back, combat combated, war warred against, vengeance avenged, torment tormented, damnation damned, the abyss sunk into the abyss, hell transfixed, death dead, mortality made immortal. In short, mercy has swallowed up all misery, and goodness all misfortune. For all these things which were to be the weapons of the devil in his battle against us, and the sting of death to pierce us, are turned for us into exercises which we can turn to our profit. If we are able to boast with the Apostle, saying, O hell, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? It is because by the Spirit of Christ, we live no longer, but Christ lives in us.