March 11, 2009
Our boy The 1/3 turned us on to this important happening in June. A bunch of bands that longtime Buzzgrinder readers will recognize and appreciate are reuniting for a good cause. I just went ahead and re-posted the entire blog entry from The Huntingtons about the event. Saturday, June 13, 2009 at Ci...
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Sean Cannon
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March 06, 2009
I was just prompted by a question to re-read John Piper’s first chapter in Brothers, We Are Not Professionals. Here’s a taste of Piper’s prayer at the end of the chapter: Banish professionalism from our midst, Oh God, and in its place put passionate prayer, poverty of spirit, hunge...
Biblical Preaching
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Peter Mead
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March 04, 2009
You have the idea. You have the copy. You have the creative. Everything is done and you have an email marketing program/campaign that you are ready to get out the door. Check, Check, Check. But what happens when it leaves your location and enters into email inboxes around the globe? Well you could g...
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dylan@eroi.com (eROI)
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February 28, 2009
Continuing the list of ten characteristics of Jesus’ preaching, as observed by a chapter in Preach the Word: (6) Visual in its Appeal - Jesus painted word pictures. He didn’t speak in abstractions, but he helped his teaching to form in the minds of the listeners (whether they were inte...
Biblical Preaching
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Peter Mead
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February 27, 2009
Haslam’s book, Preach the Word, has a chapter entitled “Learning from Jesus.” To some it is obvious that we should look to Jesus, who was, after all, the finest of preachers. But I suppose some would overlook Jesus as a model of preaching since, well, we’re not Jesus. I...
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Peter Mead
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February 26, 2009
I've only just started to play with it myself, but early today, Shortcovers.com opened for business. Run by Canada's Chapters/Indigo book chain (though oddly not mentioned on their homepage), Shortcovers is the first solution for buying e-books on the go outside of the Kindle platform. They have...
The Distant Librarian
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Paul R. Pival
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Director : Amy Heckerling Release Date : 13 August 1982 (USA) Genre : Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance Cast : Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton, Judge Reinhold as Brad Hamilton, Robert Romanus as Mike Damone, Brian Backer as Mark ‘Rat’ Ratner, Phoebe Cates as...
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February 25, 2009
Continuing Greg Haslam’s list of reasons why preaching is ailing (first chapter of Preach the Word): 5. Some are too polite and too politically correct. It is easy for the message to be so diluted that it fails to rattle or challenge listeners. Preaching is not for cowards, but political correct...
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Peter Mead
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February 23, 2009
You’ve probably heard it said that good preaching comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable (or something similar). While this may be true, it is also possible to make listeners uncomfortable in the wrong way. Here are a couple of examples: 1. Pushing naturally unresponsive peopl...
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Peter Mead
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February 21, 2009
Sleepy's just won't help Ashley pick up her new mattress. The store promised to have rope on hand to strap the mattress to her car, but when Ashley arrived she was told that Sleepy's had "run out of rope." To apologize, a sales rep instead promised her free delivery, but called later to explain that...
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