I logged straight into my iTunes account and changed my password and found that someone had downloaded a free app called “Kingdom Quest” from Sega then made in app purchases totalling $36.50 – leaving me with an iTunes Store account balance of $1.54.

The Sequence
First I knew was an email from Apple advising that my iTunes Store account had changes to Name and Credit card information.  Next was an email from Apple advising that the Kingdom Quest app had been downloaded to a previously unauthorised device.  Last, an email advising about the in-app purchases in Kingdom Quest.

Each email advises changing iTunes Account passwords if it wasnt a genuine account holder purchase.

Well, too late Apple.  Looking on your website I find that this has been going on since November 2010.  In the Apple forums there are more than 1500 comments over 101 webpages with over 230000 views on this same iTunes Store hack.  It has reached the media here.

I normally read of peoples Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Paypal, eBay etc etc accounts being hacked and somehow always feel immune to it.  Well when it happens its not good.

Change your passwords regularly. Dont share them. Make them secure.

It toom me ages to find where in Moodle administration the setting is.  I did the usual search Moodle.org forums, then the web, eventually finding it.  For users to register in a Moodle course and only be able to self-enrol based on a specific email address domain go to:

Site Administration > Plugins > Authentication > Manage authentication.)

Scroll down to the Allowed Email Domains field and enter the allowed domains without the @ symbol.

Simon O. Sinek (born October 9, 1973) is an author, marketing consultant and motivational speaker best known for developing “The Golden Circle” and popularizing a concept of human motivation.

I like the comment near the end separating leaders from those who lead – there are people in positions of leadership, but there are those who lead and inspire others.

There’s plenty of things to do in church if the Sunday Sermon just isnt cutting it.  Especially these days if you’re using a digital Bible where you can access other books, Bible versions, Reading Plans or dare I say email, Twitter, Facebook……

But I dont want to promote not listening to what you’re being told, I want to share what you can do when you want teaching “extra” to what you might be getting from attending your local church.

Here are some sources to Bible teaching that might be helpful:

iTunes Podcasts

Many well-known Bible teachers and church pastors now distribute free teaching material using Podcasts.  A Podcast is a subscription to an audio or video  recording.  These recordings may be that speakers sermon, radio broadcast or conference  presentation and could be in video or audio format.

You subscribe to their Podcast using software such as iTunes and whenever a new recording is added it will show in iTunes and you can simply click “Get” to download it.

Some well known speakers offering free Podcasts through iTunes include - John Piper, Louie Giglio, Tim Keller, John Macarthur, Chuck Missler, Mark Driscoll, Hillsong Church, Charles Stanley.

To subscribe to any of these Podcasts install iTunes then subscribe to your selected podcast after following the links.  Podcasts are usually also available in audio format if they are in video format so depending on how much you want to download and what format you want it in, you can make the choice.  Podcasts can be copied to iPods, MP3 players or burned to CD for listening to on the run, in the car, at the gym…..

OnePlace.com

Oneplace.com is owned by the Salem Corporation which owns over 100 Christian radio stations in the USA.  These radio stations distribute a lot of teaching material from many Christian Bible teachers, speakers and pastors and the same radio broadcasts are being made available through the Oneplace.com website. They have a large range of ministries and speakers available – view the list here.  At Oneplace.com you can listen free to the sermons but they do charge a fee if you want to download it.  If you download them you can put onto a CD or media player just like a Podcast recording.

SermonAudio

SermonAudio.com is another source of audio teaching material that you can Podcast or listen/download from the website.  They have nearly 500,000 free audio messages available to download free.  Browseable by speaker, topic, Bible, date all ministries represented must adhere to Sermonaudio’s Articles of Faith.

ChristianAudio.com

Christianaudio.com is one of the largest Christian audiobook publishers and the largest Christian audiobook website on the Internet. They digitally distribute more than four hundred audiobooks and thousands of additional audiobooks from publishers like Tyndale, Oasis Audio, Baker, Regent, Blackstone Audiobooks, Naxos Audiobooks, Recorded Books, Treasure Publishing, and Crossway Publishers.

Each month they offer a free audiobook download to members (membership is free) and authors have included – Tim Challies, Corrie Ten Boom, Jerry Bridges, John Piper, Gary Chapman, J.O Sanders.

Christianaudio.com also distributes audio for ministries such as John Piper’s Desiring God Ministry, John Eldridge’s Ransomed Heart Ministry, Richard Foster and Dallas Willard’s Renovare Ministry, R. C. Sproul’s Ligonier Ministries, and many others.

Faith Comes By Hearing

Want just God’s Word without any exposition? Faithcomesbyhearing.com has a great selection of audio Bibles free to download in a mix of languages, dramatised or not, for adults, children and even in Australian!

Once downloaded you can listen on your computer or like other files, transfer to a portable player or CD.

What other sources for resources do you use?  Do you have a preference for video or audio?