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Tangible Sermon Reminders

Mar 12th by Jon
#727.

(John Crist, you fantastic, completely unexpected guest poster. This showed up in my email one day, and I thought it was very true and very funny. I hope you do too.)

For those of us that have been to a Christian conference, retreat or youth camp in the last decade, we know the power of the Tangible Sermon Reminder. The TSR usually occurs when multiple speakers are up against each other, all vying for your inordinately short attention span and space in your pre-worn journal. We’ve all been victim of the TSR and it usually takes the form of a small, post-sermon giveaway that is meant to drive home the sermons’ main point.

As Christians, we don’t remember any of the sermons we’ve heard in the last ten years but I ALWAYS remember the TSRs.

Traditionally, the TSR comes in many forms. It can be as simple as a small cross or as complex as a bracelet with six different colored beads on it, all representing a different stage of the roman road.

But with TSR competition heating up in the last several years, Christian conference speakers have taken TSR use to new heights. It usually happens after the closing prayer (any earlier and the speaker could risk loosing the attention of the audience) and it typically comes in the form of a small trinket or memento. Before you’re inspired to change your life as a result of this gift, keep in mind that it was purchased with your tithe.

Now, everyone please look under your chair and find out the three most common TSR’s of 2009.

#726.

As I’ve confessed before, a few years ago, my brothers almost had to have a joke intervention with me. It was a mess and to tell you the truth, I’m not even sure how I got there. It started off so slow.

There will be rocks.

Mar 11th by Jon

These last two years have been a weird learning experience. From the Stuff Christians Like book to the blog, it’s been this fire hose moment of trying to communicate and share and not fail and take risks and try new things. In the midst of that, I feel like I’ve learned something about communicating …

I am a huge fan of Tripp Crosby and Tyler Stanton. (Tyler has a new book too, check it out.) They both live in Atlanta and are at least 64% funnier than me. Sometimes we get together and beat each other’s jokes up and try to encourage each other to move to LA already and write a movie.

Recently, they did a video called “Things you can’t do when you’re not a dog.” I thought it was hilarious and hope you dig it too. You can watch it after the jump.

OK, I used a random number generator to pick both of these winners.

Colin Burch won the Macbook Pro

Jennifer Phipps won the Nook

If that’s your name, send me an email with your mailing address please.

Thanks for playing!

#725.

“What we’re really doing is turning him into a drug addict.”

That is my favorite sentence from a recent article about an escaped monkey loose in Tampa, Florida. Apparently, every time animal control hits this monkey with tranquilizer darts he just shrugs them off and keeps running around down town. He’s become a bit of a local celebrity and has his own facebook page, which lists one of his hobbies as “Messin’ with the popo.”

This Saturday, March 13th, we’re having a 24 hour day of prayer. From 7AM eastern on Saturday morning until 7AM eastern on Sunday morning we’ll be praying. We have two time slots that need to be filled and if you’d like to jump on one of the other ones, that would be great. Just comment on this post with what time you’d like to pray. If you’re praying during that hour, there are over 300 prayer requests from readers on this post. You can also leave prayer requests on this post as well.

So, how can we pray for you?

List of people praying:

7:00AM = Toni, Jenny, Tracey, Paul, Jon

8:00 = Steffi, Jordan, Kim, TJ

9:00 = Nick, Alas, Rebecca C, Jennifer, Erin, Susan, Jess, Stephanie

10:00 = Donna, Kels, Brittany, Gina, Violet

11:00 = Alison, Rae, Cindy, Edna, Meg, Jon B.

12:00PM = Aydan, Rayanne

1:00 = Caroline, Phillip, ldhrendur

2:00 = Emanon712, Stacy, cjnash06, huggiesgirl, Curtis Honeycutt, Christina08

3:00 = AymieJoi, Stacy from Louisville

4:00 =

5:00 = Brittany

6:00 = evambrose, Sarah

7:00 = Rebekah

8:00 = Honeylove

9:00 = Persio, Malin

10:00 = Dawngreen, Connie, Mina

11:00 = Rebecca, Shannon

12:00AM = B. Marie, Megan

1:00 = Miss Ashley

2:00 = Squinancywort, Raven

3:00 =

4:00 = Scott, Katy

5:00 = eastern ky pastor, Gina, Jennifer, Tanya, Jenochej

6:00 = Charmaine, Angela, James

Christian Greeting Cards

Mar 9th by Jon
#724.

A few weeks ago, a greeting card company asked if I would ever think about doing a line of Stuff Christians Like greeting cards. The answer to that question my friend, is “yes.”

#723.

I invented cool.

I believe you know my opinion on the Stuff Christians Like book. (I believe you should buy it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books Christian etc.)

But if the $8 price tag and chance to win a free macbook pro are not enough to convince you, I thought you might want to check out the introduction to the book. I took a photo of it. Here you go:
Introduction

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