From the lips of babes...

My youngest loves to make up songs and in the odd moment when she's not talking loves to sing away to herself. Here's what I overheard the other day:
"Jesus made all the stuff,
He made all the stuff,
He made all the stuff,
He made all the stuff in the world"

Amazing the grasp of theology a 4 year old has - it's a pretty good paraphrase of John 1:3 "Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made."

Quartz Composer Screensaver in church

This is a screenshot of an advert I made for church last Sunday with Quartz Composer on my mac mini. I was impressed by how simple it was to make. In less than an hour I had downloaded this CNN Globe example (bottom of linked page), changed the image to be one of NASA's, copied and pasted the details from a bundled example and changed the text on each face, leaving the rear face blank. I don't know where I'd start to do something similar on a PC.

Quartz composer is very easy to use, but if you're a mac user and haven't installed the Xcode tools from your Tiger disk, I've published the inputs so you can easily change the text. Just download the fullglobe.qtz from here (only 64kb!) and drop it into your ~/Library/Screen Savers folder. Then open the "desktop and screensaver" option of your system preferences, click Full Globe and then click options to change the text. You're done!

If anyone else has some great looking .qtz files for use in worship please get in touch. Or maybe post a link to some resources?