Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

GodiPod.com is T-minus seven days! We'll launch GodiPod.com with a full-page ad in the Catalyst notezine. We'll also have a booth set up at the Catalyst conference.

I'll continue to provide updates until the GodiPod.com website goes live. Then I'm going to launch a GodiPod.com blog that will revolve around digital discipleship. It'll link with evotional.com.

Here's a little backstory on Godipod.

God + iPod = GodiPod.com

The mission of GodiPod is simple: redeem technology to foster spiritual growth. It's all about digital discipleship.

GodiPod.com is the byproduct of three contributing factors.

First, I began this year experimenting with spiritual disciplines. I got an iPod in April and began downloading content to feed my spirit while I excercised my body. I call it spiritual multitasking. I just started redeeming time by redeeming technology.

Second, I had what I can only call a God-ordained meeting with a professor of Information Technology from the Naval Academy. He is also the President of a start-up company called Riptopia. Our conversations were the catalyst for GodiPod.com.

Third, I was praying in May of this year asking God for a $2 million miracle for our coffeehouse. To be perfectly honest, I was asking God to send someone with a lot of money who could write a check to pay off the mortgage on Ebenezers. To make a long story short, I really felt like the Holy Spirit said, "What if I want to give you a $2 million idea?" I think GodiPod.com is the $2 million dollar idea. I'm believing that it'll help us retire the debt on Ebenezers.

I'm not sure of all that GodiPod.com will become. But we'll start off preloading Bibles, audio books, worship songs, and sermons onto Apple iPods enabling customers to feed their spirit while they commute, relax, or work out. Along with selling preloaded iPods, GodiPod.com will offer a variety of products and services:

1) Ripping Service--get your entire CD collection preloaded onto an iPod
2) Podcast Directory--subscribe to Godcasts that will feed your spirit
3) GodiPod Blog--discover new ways of practicing ancient spiritual disciplines

Along with selling preloaded iPods to individual customers, GodiPod.com has the scalable technology to customize content. It's all about win/win partnerships with like-minded organizations. GodiPod.com will partner with churches, conferences, and bands that want to preload their own customized iPod.

The theaterchurch.com iPod will be a prototype. It'll come preloaded with 1) Top Ten Message Series 2) the Message//Remix 3) Further worship CD and 4) a sample theaterchurch.com podcast.

There are still a million loose ends, but if we waited till all of our questions were answered we'd never do anything!

Ecclesiastes 11:4 is one of my guiding verses. It says, "If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done."