Loren Dean Greenawalt: 1953-2008

December 22nd, 2008

Loren Greenawalt

My father, Loren Greenawalt, passed away on Saturday, December 20th. My wife, Rebekah, took this picture of him one of the last times he came to town, and I know he would have loved this as a memorial. He was truly the most amazing, naturally gifted musician I’ve ever known and a loving person, and we’re praying that our children will inherit just some of his wonderful talent when they are born.

New Video Podcast

October 4th, 2008

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Keep current with world events and what God is speaking through His prophets. GI News will take you into the studio for prophetic news and “behind the scenes” with Mike and Cindy Jacobs.

We launched a brand, spanking new video podcast from the Generals HQ this week called GI News. You can check GI News out on our shiny, new podcast page.

Relevance gone bad

September 11th, 2008

I have no words…

[via PhilCooke.com]

Magento and TYPO3

August 5th, 2008

There’s a new project on “the Forge” that’s connecting Magento and TYPO3, and you can see their progress here. I’m pretty excited, and it looks like we will probably end up switching to Magento in the future for the ministry. Now that they have “virtual products” working, I’m sure I’ll be able to get donations and downloads (our two highest priorities). I’ve spent the past couple weeks learning how to make better forms and checkout processes, and I’ve been slowly working on a new donation form for our FishCart installation that will use dojo library for validation and accordion-style layout collapsing (is that how you say it?). Anyway, this looks like good news for the TYPO3 sites out there that really have been wanting a good, powerful integrated store.

Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89

August 4th, 2008
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photograph by Mikhail Evstafiev

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn died at the age of 89 from heart failure. He was in work camps, sentenced to a life of exile, had cancer, lived in hiding, got a Nobel Prize, spent two decades in the West, returned to Russia, and didn’t die until the age of 89. I wonder if he ever imagined that he would even live to see the outside world or his 40th birthday when he was in the work camps. I remember reading Gulag Archipelago the first time in high school…  I had to put it down halfway through for three years before finally finishing it. I wish I could say that I’ll be able to buy and read the thirty-volume edition of his collected works, but I’ll just say that he was a great writer and he’ll be missed.