How Congress is owned by oil industry.

July 5, 2010

Here’s a great article in the New York Times about how how oil industry owns Washington: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/04bptax.html?_r=1 If you want a quick abstract, you can get it here: http://holykaw.alltop.com/oil-companies-among-the-most-subsidized-recei Time to send a lot of Congress home this fall?

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Quotations on Freedom and Liberty for July 4th

July 4, 2010

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” Benjamin Franklin “Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people” Abraham Lincoln “Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.” “Let every nation [...]

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The Christian book market – What’s selling?

July 1, 2010

Check out the Christian best-sellers for June as listed by Publisher’s Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/religion/article/43646-june-2010-christian-bestsellers.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly%27s+Religion+BookLine&utm_campaign=7e648d735b-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email What does this tell you about the needs of those purchasing Christian books?

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Prophecy opens up a pathway between the actual and the potential.

June 30, 2010

Prophecy opens up a pathway between the actual and the potential. True friends live in that space for each other, because while they can see who we are right now, they also know who we are becoming. Graham Cooke

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Interested in publishing a book?

June 29, 2010

Today we’re reviewing, discussing, and giving away A Path to Publishing: What I Learned by Publishing a Nonfiction Book by Ed Cyzewski. Keep reading to learn how you can win a free copy. In A Path to Publishing, Ed Cyzewski provides authors with a guide through the entire publishing processes from writing to contacting an [...]

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Using Social Media Networking with Your Church

June 28, 2010

1. Know Your Church’s Goals. What is the focus of your church? How does it intend to accomplish that? What are the needs your church is trying to address? What people groups? 2. Who else in your church is already using social media and networking? What networks are they using? Connect with them. In our [...]

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Pictures oversized

June 28, 2010

Yep, I know – some of the pictures on the postings aren’t being resiizing properly. I’m working on that.

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Validation video

June 25, 2010

This is one awesome video and has over three million hits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao Note: The video is about 16 minutes long. Watch it when you can pause and enjoy the story. Here are Trey Pennington’s notes on this video: Here’s the foundational principle at work on social media: * everyone wants to be heard * everyone [...]

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Blog status report

June 25, 2010

We are running on the new theme now (step 4). There’s still work to do, but it is installed and working. We have NOT upgraded to WordPress 3.0 yet – our blog software. We cannot do this until our host moves us to a new server. That is still about two weeks away.

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Watch for changes – you’ll like them.

June 22, 2010

Watch for major changes here. Currently we are using WordPress, but we don’t like the theme. Headings at the top areoften lost merging into the breadcrumbs at the top. The font is bad. There’s more that needs work. First, we are adding a backup plug-in to protect things as we change the blog. We are [...]

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