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I have enjoyed some time recently to do some Web design work. Design is what really makes me feel alive. I have had several ideas that I have wanted to work through. I also have some tools that I am trying out or have learned about different functions within Fireworks or Photoshop that help to realize some of my ideas.

You can see a sampling of some of my recent work under “Projects in Process.” You can also see a listing of recently completed projects.

Here are the questions I came up with this morning. I got most of them from QuEST 1.0.

• What happens at death?
• What determines a person’s experience of either heaven or hell?
• An ABC News Special seeks to answer two questions. “Where is heaven?” and “How do we get there?” Would you be interested in hearing how the Bible answers those two questions?

I want to work on the last question. These were my first ideas.

Last night, I watched Barbara’s look at her 10 most fascinating people of 2005. At the end of the show, she promoted her next show which will be about heaven. The tag line is “Where is it? How do we get there?” I will be interested to see if she comes up with an all-inclusive answer or does not really answer the questions. She is going to interview several religious leaders including the Dalai Lama, Richard Gere and others.

I was thinking this morning about a survey to get to students that would tie in. I think this program would be a good starting point for a spiritual conversation. It airs on December 20 which is not a time that will work very well with the college schedule.

One final note: I was disappointed that I could not find any information about this show on abc.com or abcnews.com. I find that to be a big useability problem and a missed opportunity when they promo something but have no information on it on their site. I wanted to see the two questions they asked and when it aired. Nothing on their sites about it. I found more info by Googling “barbara walters and heaven.” I found an article on StarPulse that gave me the basic info I wanted.

I really enjoy being in the office around the holidays. It is quieter and there are not as many pressing things. I took advantage of this last week and finally put together a Narnia Resource Center on GodSquad.com. This is a collection of resources that help students use The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrode as an outreach opportunity. I have been wanting put this together this for several weeks. I think movies can be a powerful way of getting into spiritual conversations.

I found several helpful resources at narniaresources.com. I highlighted several ideas that I thought our student leaders would find helpful. I also had the chance to look through some resources that our Campus Crusade staff in Eastern Europe put together. They gave me permission to use the content in a tract they put together and I was able to get permission from narniaresources.com to use several images from the movie. I am looking forward to putting that together this week.

Katy, my 5 year old daughter, was baptized yesterday. Last December, she asked Jesus into her heart after I had the privilege of sharing the gospel with her. It has been exciting over the last year to see God grab hold of her life. I see so much faith in her prayers. She has taken a very active part in joining the family as we have sought God’s direction and His provision.

Katy is very outgoing. Almost every Hungarian camper knew who she was this summer when we went on a mission trip which used English camps as the outreach. I am also amazed at how articulate she is and how comfortable she is in front of a group of people. I really saw it come out yesterday when she shared her testimony at church before the baptism.

I took video of her testimony and baptism and converted it to Flash video.