Custom Design Blog

December 11, 2010 in design with 0 Comments

This past week I began to post on a design blog called Pixel Philes.

The blog is dedicated to the vast amount of mac design and customization on the web.

We post the best of these custom designs on here for people to enjoy.

A blog dedicated to showing off the wonderful work of the customization community.

You can find us somewhere other than just here!

Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/pixelphiles/

Or you can join our deviantART group http://pixelphiles.deviantart.com/

We are working on a Facebook page, stay tuned!

Check the site out Here.

I am Ungrateful.

November 28, 2010 in church with 2 Comments

I just heard one of the most important messages ever made by Andy Stanley.

He did a one part sermon on gratitude called “I. O. Who?”

Andy discussed how important gratitude really is in our relationships with God and with others. He made the simple but effective point that “Unexpressed gratitude is ingratitude”. So many people, including myself, are very grateful towards someone, yet they tell everyone they know except for that person. It doesn’t matter if you tell everyone, if you don’t tell that person. Because that person sees that as rejection.

To refuse to pay my debts of gratitude is to live with an inflated view of myself.

By refusing to show your gratitude to those who have served you is to say that what they did was expected and shouldn’t be thanked.

Gratitude closes the loop in our relationship with God and others.

Andy used the great example of a mother reminding her child to say thank you. That thank you closes the loop. Without an expression of gratitude, that person feels rejected.

This is something that I need to embrace and live out. Expressing gratitude to everyone who has helped me. I need to be a returner.

A returner is someone who is willing to go back to those who enabled them to go forward.

The first thing that really hit me when I heard this message from andy was that I am rejecting God. I take my forgiveness and I run. I am ungrateful to Him.

That hit me. I am rejecting the only One who can save me. I have rejected He who died on the cross for me. I need to accept his gift of forgiveness with more gratitude than ever before.

For He died to save me.

How humbling.

-Travis Fish

Check out the full message Here.

Standard Theme on Sale

November 27, 2010 in blogging with 0 Comments

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My blog is powered by Standard Theme and I couldn’t think of any other theme that I would use instead.

Get the Standard Theme at 30% through the rest of the month here!

Christmas Music. Finally.

November 27, 2010 in Other with 2 Comments

The best time of the year.

I absolutely love Christmas music.

I start playing it around the end of the summer, but most people don’t agree with my timing so I’ve decided to wait until now to blog about it.

I’ve heard that after Thanksgiving Holiday it is appropriate to begin playing Christmas music.

For the past few weeks I have been perfecting my Christmas music playlist.

I have been working off of this playlist for 2 or 3 years and I think I’ve got it down to a science.

It started with all of the traditional songs and it has now evolved to be a nice mix of modern and traditional.

And yes, there will be songs that will have to be left out.

But fear not, there will be a second edition of the playlist.

It’s wonderful what joy Christmas music can bring to your family and even more important what joy the spirit of God can bring to us all.

Whenever I start listening to Christmas music, It reminds me where all of the joy in the world comes from.

It reminds me that without Christ, Christmas and happiness would not exist.

So here it is, the first annual Christmas playlist:
1. Wonderful Christmas Time – Paul McCartney
2. Jingle Bell Rock – Bobby Helms
3. What Christmas Means to Me – Stevie Wonder
4. Do You Hear? – James David Carter
5. Merry Christmas, Here’s To Many More – Relient K
6. Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee
7. All I Want For Christmas Is You – Vinca Vance And The Valiants
8. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Relient K
9. In Like A Lion (Always Winter) – Relient K
10. Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow – Michael Bublé
11. Please Come Home For Christmas – The Eagles
12. All Creation Sing (Joy to the World) – Seth Condrey
13. Happy Xmas (War is Over) – John and Yoko
14. Everything Changed – Eddie Kirkland
15. Autumn Leaves – Vince Guaraldi Trio
16. I Celebrate The Day – Relient K
17. A Holly Jolly Christmas – Burl Ives
18. Last Christmas – Wham!
19. Sleigh Ride – Relient K
20. White Christmas – Bing Crosby
21. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Frank Sinatra
22. Please Come Home for Christmas – Jon Bon Jovi
23. Christmas Time Is Here – Vince Guaraldi Trio


Please leave your feedback on the playlist in the comments!

And your Favorite Christmas song of all time!
(Mine is “What Christmas Means to Me” by Stevie Wonder)

Travis Fish

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