Have you reached your Potential?

All right Blogville, today I started a whole new blog that will be all about to have a live streaming video/audio experience. What is technically required? How to set it up? and more interesting nerdy gears... I named it http://www.livegears.net/ and I'll be having fun posting on how to create a Live Campus on the Internet using the current technology available... I'll be sharing my goals and the opportunity behind every new challenge for the new projects I'm involved in. So, take a peek and if you are not a nerd, I'll do my best to help you to understand the geek issues related with the magic's behind the scenes!

Today's suggested reading: Proverbs 14 I Am Not Always Right Sometimes. Brian Vasil, Media Pastor “Arrogant know-it-alls stir up discord, but wise men and women listen to each other's counsel.” Proverbs 13:10 (TM) I only fight when I have to. I don’t like discord, disunity, disagreements, or disco. Basically anything that involves fighting, yelling, or platform shoes. Never have. When my brother and I would fight as kids, I’d usually win just because I was bigger than him. Now he is 6 foot 4 and that doesn’t work so I have to out-think him. I have to convince him that I know it all. I have all the answers…I have it all figured out. Of course, I really don’t, but you’d never know it by the way that I fight, though. Have you ever been in an argument or fight and realize halfway through that you are TOTALLY wrong? You know…that thing called pride kicks in and we are fighting for its own sake. Why do we do this to ourselves? Has arrogance or pride ever helped to solve a conflict? I...

“Don Quijote de la Mancha” is one of the greatest pieces of the Spanish Literature, it was written in the late XVI century by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, and it is considered as a corner stone of the novel writing. The first time I read this book I was 12 years old and I was captive by the romantic history of a Man who believed he was a “knight errant” with his armor bearer, Sancho Panza. All the history is about his dreams, his adventures and his errands. The first part of the book is funny and entertaining but the second part is more reflexive. Although the history is about “Don Quijote”, one of the reflexive characters is Sancho Panza, a man who always believed unconditionally the vision of his master, and no mater how crazy the venture looked; He was always there to support the Quijote's journeys. God gave to our Leader a vision to reach people all over the world to partner with them to reach their God's potential and to be “One church where you are" Today, at our st...

There are just few hours to start the “MyNakedPastor.com” series. We have been working at least for three months, planning, researching, designing, developing, doing tests, checking equipment, debugging, discarding by trial and error and we are almost there… at the beginning of a new adventure. Some of the equipment that we will be using is listed as follows: One Panasonic 3 CCD digital camera Two Sony Digital cameras with night view One Sound Blaster USB Camera, One wide angle lens One Mac Book with Windows XP One Dual Core Pentium D Computer with Windows XP Three 10 Meter FireWire cables One Verizon Wireless USB Modem One external magnetic mount antenna One Linksys router Two heavy duty tripods One tripod One 1,500 Watts inverter One 450 Amp Jump Start battery One LED lamp One Grip mounts for the camera One ISP monitoring our Bandwidth on a fiber optical output to the net… And a lot of cables, connectors, extensions, adapters and transceivers All of this to run for five weeks 24 b...

Today, Sol was jumping on her sister’s bed and she was hurt with a small cut on the leg. She didn’t wanted anyone to touch the cut, but I explained about the cuts, the infections and how the bacteria can causes more pain, and after the long explanation, she agreed to allow me help her to clean herself and to put a band aid to protect the cut. Some times we are also hurt by some situation in our life and we don’t want to be toched by anybody, even when we need assistance, because the pain is so big that we believe than there is nothing to release the pain, and we keep it on that way… We need to clean our wounds to start the healing process, and the one who can clean us and heal us is Jesus. Today is a good day to recall anything that can be causing pain in your live and allow our savior to clean and heal you.

Today I review my “to do” list at home and there was some pending tasks to be done. Paulina’s bed was broken and I needed to replace the base wood to fix it, also one of the kitchen drawers required some work, My daughters room needed a ceiling light, one of the baths needed some towel hangers… so “Labor Day” was a good day to take my to do list, and tackle it. I took some measures, I needed a large piece of 39 x 78 inches, and a small piece of 12 ½ by 4 ¾. I choose a panel and I took it to the cutting area, I gave the measures to the man who was doing the cuts and once I got my pieces, I’m used to check the measures and for my surprise, the small one it was 12 ¾ by 4 ¾ instead of 12 ½ I went back to the cutter, and he explained that it was close of the measure I requested, and he suggested me to use it just like that, I just laugh, and I just told him, sorry, but I’ll need this piece 12 ½ , no 12 ¾ . Then he told me “We are not allowed to do cuts smaller than 12 inches… I laugh again ...

One year ago, I met Deanna and Gonzalo, a young couple who was seeking wedding information, they where planning to get married. I gave them all the information, requirements and also we started a couple’s seminar that I usually give to the married couples. Marriage is the most important project on a humans life, is the fusion of two different elements onto a new one. Imagine this: You know in your heart that you want to be an architect, you love to design, you know that you have the potential to be not a good one, but a great one. You decided to go to the University fill out the application, sign your enrollment, and in that moment, get your diploma, you start looking for work, with your brand new title, they assign you to develop and build a nice complex… and you got all the enthusiasm, the feeling… but cero knowledge… after you got the project, you start studying and trying to accomplish the task at the same time… what will be the result? You’ll be lucky if you can get any progress ...

After the first two weeks of school, I decided to give a break to Sol and Sarai, and I wanted to expend some quality time with them, so we went to Butterfly World at Coconut Creek, Fl. after school. During our 40 minutes journey, we where playing and joking starting with the traditional “Are we there yet” the minute we left the school… When we arrived, I was surprised when we walked in to a big cage and there were butterflies all over the place… Thanks God I brought my camera and I got some great shots. We explored the place, observed the worms, and some different stages on a Butterfly’s live. We learned some about the Lepidoptera (Scientific name for butterfly) and some other insects like the spiders, cockroaches, and other species on some museum. After that, we where to the mall and we got some food, jokes and fun at the Sawgrass Mills Mall and in our way home, we stop at the park to close a perfect day with my two little ones. I was amazed by the perfection in all the creation by G...

Here is my video for the Contest for MyNakedPastor.com

When I started this blog, I made a commitment with myself to write every day, to be constant and make my best effort every day, to improve my writing, little by little but every day, and my goal is to become a better English writer as time goes by… this sound nice… like new year promises… but the true is that we need discipline to produce what we propose ourselves, and any laziness moment can become a great obstacle to reach your personal goals. Last Thursday, I start writing my daily post, but I was tired, it was a long day, and I was not 100% satisfied with the content, so I said to myself… Ok, tomorrow morning, I’ll be fresh and I’ll finish this and I’ll write tomorrow’s together… but then it happened that on Friday, I got a lot of things to do also, so I just start to write Friday’s post (Without conclude my Thursday’s one), then my Friend Freddy jumped in, some prints to do, my daughters had to go to the movies I had to pick them later… and the day slip from my fingers just like w...

Last week I went to Miami looking for a Wide Angle Lens for MyNakedPastor.com camera to provide a better view of what’s going on at Troy’s for 5 weeks. Here are to shots. One, a Wide Angle shot and two, another without. You see it is a better view. On my search of the lens, I visited several stores and also some parking lots. On the first parking lot there was an upset cashier, I pay and give them some encouraging words, not reacting on the way I was treated, may be she was struggling with some situation… I pray for her. On the second parking lot the cashier was with an I-phone, just grabbed my ticket and my money… no interaction at all. Never looked at me… and the third one, there was a nice cashier, she smiled me, greet me, and she wished me a great day… Three different persons, the same work, where is the difference? One word: Attitude. We all struggle with different situations every day, at work, at school, at home. No matter what is the circumstances around us, we can better use o...

Today was my first class day, and just coming in, I got my first test! To check my current knowledge, first, it was a Pre-test… so on this test it was reading, math and writing. First Results: Reading, 100%, (Is good to now at least that I can understand all I’m reading), Math, I got 96% (Ok I don’t remember how to divide fractions) and then… Writing. I check the sentences, read the questions several times… and I think I just got no more than 15%... the teacher just told me… “Well, you said you needed to learn writing…” I’ll get the right materials for you. She gives me the real tests (Now big books) for Reading and Math, and she told me that she will get one for writing next Monday. So I did the real tests, and it was fun, more than the questions, I was having memories about the time I learned the topic on question… it was something between nostalgic, melancholic and memories tests. I don got the results yet, but I’m pretty sure I got very good results on those tests… How different is...

The MyNakedPastor.com Series is a great technical challenge, because for five weeks we will be broadcasting Troy Gramling 24 x 7. This weekend Garland’s message for the Antology series was “Today Matters” oh… and by the way, Today is Garland’s B-Day… (Happy Birthday Gar), and it was about to be prepared, it’s funny, I’m trying my daughters and my to read or at least try to listen the Maxwell’s book with the same name… why? Because is important to be prepared. I’m sure if you watch this archived teaching when become available, you’ll agree with me how important is to be prepared, because every moment today will build the success for tomorrow. I’m sure this upcoming series will be not only successful, but also will touch many people’s heart, helping them to reach their God’s potential. We have been working preparing this series for about two months at least. One of the weeks Troy will be broadcasted from his car, and on that week he will have a travel to Tampa. So I got all the techni...

The picture inquiring about the couple in a lake, is Ronald and Nancy Reagan... Later today I'll post another picture that I have at my office, now, on my way back to Cooper City :) Ohhh and the winner is: Troy Gramling :)

Finally arrived at Tampa at 11:40… what a great city. The trip was great. We have poor coverage only from mile 150 to Naples… but after that, we got good signal almost all the from Naples to Tampa. There was people following the beta test from Barranquilla, Colombia, Texas, Florida, Mexico… and two engineers, Doug and Freddy who where monitoring my signal all the way long. There was few glitches, but now I’m making notes about it to be ready for the real enchilada… I really believe that the next series will be a great opportunity to reach many people… so… be ready for www.mynakedpastor.com series… Good Night!

Today We will be broadcasting live from my car, as a beta testing for the next FRC Series: MyNakedPastor.com and I’m setting up the equipment ready: 1 MacBook 1 Verizon Wireless Card 1 USB Creative Camera 1 FireWire 3 CCD Panasonic Camera 1 External Antenna with 11 DB Gain 1 Power Inverter MSN Messanger Windows Media Encoder V.9 Running So, let’s see what we can blog from this trip. I’ll have some beta tester viewers that will be sharing later their thoughts about this exiting test. I cannot wait the new series to start. This will be something completely different; I have great expectations on this Troy’s great idea.

It was a great start the first teaching of "Antology". We got a new and great look on the stage. The Internet Campus Attendance was above 600 people watching the service from all over the world, it was a great weekend. We all love comfort and easy. In fact there is some electronic "Easy" button, that you click and gives you some encouraging words, but in order to reach our God's potential, we have to walk away from our comfort zone and change from being an observer to become an actor, and when we start acting, we will face challenges, difficulties, situations. This weekend Troy talked about that topic and he give us 3 questions that we have to ask ourselves when we are facing a situation: 1. What2. Why3. What. Number one: What is happening? We must become an observer and slow down to think and observe the situation. Second: Why is that happening? Is there something we can do about it? Like Grandma said “if your problem has a solution why are you worried? If it h...

I often receive the question of what we are using to deliver the Internet Campus to the world. I'll try to answer this nerd question on the next few postings: Computer: I built a rack mountable computer to handle the main stream with the following specs: Processor: Two Xeon Dual Processors @ 3Ghz Motherboard: Intel PCI-XRam: 4GB DDR Video: PCI-Xpress Card with 256Mb Ram Audio: SB Audigy Capture Card: Osprey 230 PCI-Xpress Storage: 500 GB Sata 300 Hard Drive Raid 1 Power Supply: 550Watts CD/DVD RW We have the computer getting the video signal from the Main Video switcher from live services At this point we are building a new control Room to have a separated Audio Mix specifically balanced for internet. We are using Windows Media encoder 9 to deliver the video trough a T1 dedicated lane with two streams: One at 350kbps and other at 115 kbps for mobile users.

I created my blog two years ago, then I lost it... I created it again on Jan 07, but I'm being so busy (At least is what I tell to myself) but now I'm decided to go for it... Being a Campus Pastor at Flamingoroad has been a really challenging experience. It was on the middle of the last year when Troy Gramling dreamed about the possibility to reach people outside the walls... It had opened a few off-site campuses but needed another way to reach the community – the question arose, “What if Flamingo Road Church was available to everyone worldwide? What if didn’t matter where people lived? What if God would allow us to be one church where they are on a global scale?” What started as a question became reality. Work began on a website that would allow people to experience church in every aspect. This wouldn’t just be a website on church; this would be a church IN a website. A real campus where people would hear the worship…take virtual notes…listen and watch Pastor Troy…turn in comm...