For anyone looking to watch Full Episodes of your favorite TV shows online, here’s a couple of good options (with varying quality and selection):

1. Download the TV.COM app. It’s from CBS and the content options are slim, but growing.
2. Fire up Safari and visit m.nbc.com. Click on Video…Full Epiodes. Mobile Office? Yes please.
3. Another Safari link. Visit iphone.cwtv.com for CW content. You’re only allowed to use this if you’re 12 or under. Sorry, that’s the law.

For best results, use WiFi.

Last night I watched the season premiere of Jon and Kate Plus 8 with my wife. I would say that she made me, but that’s not entirely true. I’ve watched it for a couple of seasons now and I was interested in what they were going to say in regards to their recent controversies. (If you’re more of a man than I am you might want to click here or here to catch up.)

The first thing I noticed (and I’m sure I’m not the only one) is that they did not interview together. In fact, in the whole 75 minute show they were on screen together for less than 5 minutes. And in that 5 minutes together it was clear to everyone that there’s trouble in paradise. Here’s why.

The last 2 minutes of the show made the Gosselin’s priorities very, very clear. They both stated emphatically that the kids mattered more than anything. In fact, the producers repeated this several times. More than anything the kids mattered the most. This is what made me sad. As important as my children are to me, they will never matter more than their mother who, in turn, will never matter more than Jesus. This is why so many couples get divorced soon after they become empty-nesters. They don’t take the time to strengthen the relationship between each other. Here are a couple of pointers to keep your relationship with your spouse strong.

1. Date your spouse. Get a babysitter and leave. Go out as often as you can afford it. Talk. Laugh. Be alone together. Find the time. If you’re kid’s lives are so busy that you can’t make this happen, then you need to slow them down. Take them out of sports or extracurriculars. You are setting the example that they will turn and act upon when they’re married. Make the time.

2. Tell your spouse often that they’re more important. I tell my wife all the time that she’s my favorite person in the world. I love my kids, but we can make more of them. There’s only one Anna. And she knows it.

3. Evaluate your relationship on a regular basis. One of the best pieces of advice that I ever received was to sit down and have a ‘State of the Union’ with my wife every year. We decided to do it and have found those times to be some of the most incredible moments of intimacy and connection. Sometimes it hurts. We’re brutally honest (always communicating in love) about what needs to improve. We set goals for ourselves and for each other for the next year and evaluate how we did last year. It sounds absolutely awful, but I assure you those are the most incredible dates we’ve ever had. We get dressed up and go out to eat and sit there for hours. (Be sure to tip extra. A lot extra.)

4. Actually believe that your spouse is more important. In order for these things to work…in order for you to communicate to each other…your spouse has to actually BE more important. More important than your kids. More important than your job or ministry. Your spouse is given to you by God to be the single most important person in your life (other than Jesus himself). They have to know it…and it has to be true.

It’s not too late. Your spouse needs to know how important they are.

Rock Bridge has recently been featured in Worship Facilities magazine. In fact Stage 123 has been featured in several trade publications regarding worship architecture. This just happens to be the first one I got ahold of. Check out some scans in the gallery below. [EDIT: Here's the link.] We have a great church!

I’ve been asked several times in the last week what I do. And while the complete description would bore even my wife, one of the most important things I do is manage the volunteers and equipment that make multiple venues (and multiple locations) possible.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Rock Bridge has two venues (of equal importance) in Dalton (edit: The Wink Theatre and Stage 123) and one venue (of equal importance) in Calhoun. While there will be posts that follow dealing with service planning and the vision of multiple sites, this will start a series of posts on the personnel and equipment involved in being multi-site and multi-venue. We’ll start with the Wink Theatre.

The Wink Theatre is a restored WWII era theatre house complete with neon marquee. The first venue, this is where Matt Evans typically preaches live. We are currently running a two-camera IMAG system with an iMac on ProPresenter and a Panasonic AG-MX70 video switcher. In addition, there is a JVC HD250 in the rear of the room for Stage 123 (but we’ll get to that.) Front of house audio is a Yamaha M7CL48. Lights are controlled by a Jands Vista I3 (mostly ETC source 4’s, ellipsoidals, and color scrollers although we do have 6 Coemar Prospot 250’s). We are currently using two primary projectors (@ 15k lumens) for IMAG and a secondary projector (@ 6.5k lumens) for set support. This is the venue that drives the video for all other venues as it’s the only one with permanent cameras. Up in the booth there is a MacPro running Windows and Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder for our live broadcast (available at www.rockbridge.cc). There’s also a Doremi MCS-HD and a bunch of Ensemble Brighteye equipment for Stage 123 among other random equipment.

To keep the show running smoothly, we have a Floor Director specific to this venue. Following his lead is the Video Director, Technical Director (on switcher), Computer Operator, Sound engineer, lighting operator and two camera operators.

Here are some pictures of the Wink Theatre in action.

Stay tuned for more details on our other venues.

This post was originally posted at www.mattevans.cc

I came to Rock Bridge almost a year ago to help our worship team with audio, video and lighting. It’s been a great year and I wanted to share with you one of my hopes for the people Northwest Georgia. My passion in this church is to see people truly get involved and plugged in to ministry. You might remember several months ago Matt when talked about our church being volunteer-driven. I can’t say enough how important this is for us, as a church, and for every Christ-follower.

Typically, when people think about the importance of volunteering, thoughts immediately go to the benefit for the organization or the people who are being served. But when it comes to volunteering, it’s as much about your heart as it is about the people you’re serving.

In the book of Jonah we see a man who is running from what God has asked him to do. You might remember that Jonah was thrown into the sea and swallowed by a giant fish. You might remember that Jonah was spit up onto the beach and finally complied with God’s command (although rather reluctantly). But look through the book and tell me the name of one Ninevite. You can’t do it, because we’re never told any of their names. Revival goes through the whole city (120,000 people and much cattle) and we don’t even know the name of the king. In this story, God was focusing on the servant as much as he was on the served. Jonah was just as important to God as the Ninevites. His attitude (see chapter 4) was as important to God as revival in the city.

I’d like you to consider a few things about volunteering and then consider taking that next step in faith (if you’re not already doing so).

1. Volunteering builds community. Despite our always-on technology that connects us to others like ever before, people are more lonely than they’ve ever been. God has created us to connect to other believers. Connecting in service, behind a common vision, often helps create deep, lasting relationship.

2. Volunteering creates a sense of ownership. It’s too easy in modern Christianity to simply come to church for what you can get out of it. It’s a natural extension of our culture. But the church is not a place to get something, it’s a place to be a part of something. When you volunteer, you join in the mission of that organization and become a real part of it.

3. Volunteering requires sacrifice. Volunteering requires you to give your time. It may require you to do something with which you’re not completely comfortable. It causes you to give of yourself in order to meet somebody else’s need. Jesus sets the ultimate example for this, sacrificing everything for us. We can follow that example by giving our time (or resources) in sacrificially for others.

4. Volunteering is an act of worship. Or at least it can be. Putting others first and making a sacrifice of your time or resources is a great way to worship the God that gave them to you. I pray that all of my volunteers think about (and worship) the God that created them every time they serve.

You may not see or feel these things when you volunteer. Maybe you only feel one or two of them. Focus on them and give it time. My hope and prayer is that when you volunteer, you do so out of a love for God and a love for people. In the same breath, volunteering is all about your heart and not about you at all.