Shiloh Community Fellowship contracted me to design a new website for their church. The new website allows the community to learn about the church and allows the congregation to be kept up-to-date with the latest news and events. Shiloh also asked for two logos to be designed for their children’s and youth ministry. Check out the website by clicking here.

The Atlantic Conference of the Brethren in Christ Church charged me with re-designing and launching a new website for the NextGen Student Internship program. This new website allows their director to easily update and manage information that changes on a regular basis. Churches are able to submit internship requests as well as find information on how to hold an internship program. Potential interns are able to contact the denomination allowing the leadership to place them in a position where they can grow and serve the local churches of the Atlantic Conference. Check out this website by clicking here.

The leadership of New Life Church of Hershey was looking for a new website design along with a new logo. Their existing website was out-dated and was difficult to maintain and update. The new logo design and website work together to create a new, clean and fresh look for the congregation. The new website makes it much easier for the leadership to make changes and add information to the website. Visit the website today by clicking here.

The Table Community Church held a car show on Sunday July 17, 2011 in Willow Street. This was a video I created for fun using my Canon 7D and Glidecam. The video was edited in Final Cut X.

Direct Link: Click here.

Music:
“Something in the Water” – Brooke Fraser
“You and Me” – Dave Matthews Band
“Sweet Disposition” – The Temper Trap

Technical- Canon 7D, Canon 28-135, edited in FCX

‘For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; (Exodus 31:15)

The Sabbath is a contemplative spiritual discipline, meaning it is meant to refresh our spirt, mind, and allow us to adjust and align our focus and prepare for the active discipline of “work.” To Sabbath is to rest from one’s labor. In scripture we are told that heaven is an eternal Sabbath (Hebrews 4:9). It is important to examine the example that God set for us. This is the key to understanding the Sabbath. I see God modeling a rhythm of first labor and then rest to enjoy the fruit of that labor in Genesis 2:2.

So, what about Jesus? Jesus seemed to have purposely lived his life in a public way that was at times ridiculed by the Pharisees, specifically in relation to the Sabbath. We see Jesus healing on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:1-14, John 9:1-17), teaching on the Sabbath (Mark 6:1-2), and even promoting evangelism on the Sabbath (John 7:21-24). In these passages we see Jesus demonstrating that the Sabbath is not to be enforced legalistically, but that it exists for worshipful fun and rest. Jesus is saying that a true Sabbath is not in a day but ultimately in a saving relationship with Jesus where we can rest from trying to earn our salvation and rest in His finished work (Matthew 11:28–30; Romans 4:5; Colossians 2:16–17). To wrap this up I would say that the Sabbath is not a law for us to obey, but instead a grace to enjoy.

Read this quote from “Revolution of Character” by Dallas Willard. He said….

“When we come to the place where we can joyously do no work, it will be because God is so exalted in our mind and body that we can trust him with our life and our world, and we can take our hands off them.”

To really practice the “Sabbath” we must get to a place where we can let go of our tendencies to take control, achieve, produce, and attain gratification. The Sabbath is saying to the frantic, exhausted, distracted, over-worked fatigued, busy people of God to take a break! I need to personalize this and say to myself that even though I work in ministry, and my job is about pointing people to Christ I need to stop producing, consuming, moving, accomplishing, buying, and planning by setting aside time to find rest in Jesus. I am still pretty certain that the best way to do this is by setting aside a day, showing the world that we are different. God instructs us to work and Sabbath equally well. If we fail to do so, we might ask ourselves what our god truly is and where our faith truly lies.

Have you found a way to really trust Him with your life and world and take your hands off both?

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The time has finally arrived when I will unveil the brand new jeremydenlinger.com. After a few weeks of development and work the new website is live. I recently recognized that I have not been able to do as much blogging as I had hoped in the past and my somewhat small design business is now beginning to grow into something it wasn’t just a year ago. The new design focuses on my business and the services that I offer. I will still blog occasionally, although I don’t think I will be making a living from it!

Although the website is live, a working website is never complete. In the coming weeks I will continue to work on updating my portfolio of work and I will likely make some tweaks and changes to the design of the site as well. If you have any feedback, just leave a comment. On a personal note I will be building in a weather feature to my website. At Christmas time my wife got me one of my most favorite gifts of all time – a weather station. As many of you know I love the weather. Within the next few weeks I will launch a segment of my website where you will be able to access real-time weather data, local weather radar, and a weather blog of sorts. Living on the East Coast in Central Pennsylvania brings a lot of fun and interesting winter weather forecasts. I will do my best to predict and explain the winter storms!

Thanks!

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