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Helping You be Thankful, One Pin at a Time
November is the month that contains my favorite holiday: Thanksgiving. For years, I have said that this holiday is my favorite, and it isn’t all that close. But, as we often say, we need to be thankful for more than just one day out of the year. Some have used social media to pass along something for which they are thankful every day for the month of November. That’s a great way to build up gratitude in our lives. We want to take that a step further this month, and we want to help us all be more thankful. One of my boards on Pinterest is called “Quotes of Faith…
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Christian Vegetation and the TV Set
We live in a “veg out” society. We work very hard, and there are times when we just want to sit in front of the TV set and mindlessly flip through channels for a few minutes. At other times, we just want to have the tube on and watch a TV show that doesn’t make us think. Let me say at the outset of this post, that I am not saying that doing this is always wrong. We need to rest, and some people find that just having the TV on is a good way to let their brain wind down from a hard day. However, I want to challenge…
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Seven Good Things Week : iPreach
Welcome to “Seven Good Things Week.” This is the final post this week, and I am tremendously grateful for your interaction with the posts. We hope all the “things” we have shared this week have encouraged you. Today, we share something that’s been around awhile, but continues to grow. Almost exactly 6 years ago, Dale Jenkins and I got together with the idea of starting a podcast designed to help preachers. I had thought about starting a personal podcast, and Dale had had the idea before of a ministry podcast. We put our ideas together, and iPreach was born. Though the first few episodes were very rough, a few people…
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Why We Retooled One Podcast Before It Even Got Off the Ground … and Started Another One
When we relaunched our blog in early June, one of the big parts of the launch was a family podcast. A ton of work went into getting some things lined up for the launch of The Faughn Family Podcast, which was scheduled to begin on August 1. Well, “the best laid plans of mice and men…” The Faughn Family Podcast is still going to launch on August 1, but we have done a lot of thinking in the last couple of weeks, and have decided to retool the show a bit, even before it starts. Originally, we were going to produce a weekly program, and had already recorded four of…
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Google Reader is Leaving : Where Can You Go?
I have used Google Reader for, if I remember correctly, almost 10 years. It has literally become part of my daily routine, and is the way that I am able to keep up with all the blogs I follow. A few months ago, however, Google announced that Reader would be going away at the end of June, 2013. While it isn’t the most important thing in the world, I have dreaded this day, because I love the simplicity of Reader. [By the way, if you have no idea what Google Reader is, here is a post I wrote about it just over one year ago.] Since the announcement, I have…
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A Tour of the New Site…and That Huge Announcement
Welcome back! It seems like we have been away forever, but it’s only been a week. When you are used to blogging 4-5 times each week, taking even one week away seems like it will never end. But, as you can see, we have been doing just a little bit of work around here. We want to give you a tour… …but we have to get the big announcement out of the way first. Announcing The Faughn Family Podcast! That’s right, we are starting a family podcast! While we are a little while away from starting, this was one reason for the redesign. The first show is going to go…
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Blogging Break for Construction…and a Quick Reminder
For those of you who have been reading our blog for a long time, you have probably noticed that we have really been focused this year on the site. Thank you for your consistent visits and kind words about the site. I hope you find it obvious that we love doing this, and that we are always striving to make the site better. That’s why we are taking a break. That’s right, we are taking a short break from the site, but I think you will appreciate what happens when we are done. We have a couple of huge things you will be introduced to when we get back, but…
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Huffduffer: Make Your Own Audio Feed Online for Free
A few weeks ago, we were involved in a blog hop concerning podcasts that we enjoy listening to. If you go back and look through that post, you can see that I listen, via subscription, to a lot of podcasts. In fact, there are a couple more I’d like to subscribe to, but I just don’t feel I have the time right now. But even if you aren’t a podcast person, today’s post is for you. I recently discovered a free online tool for all those random audio files you find online that you’d like to hear, but you don’t want to keep running around the internet to find them.…
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How to Encourage a Blogger
You are amazing! Yesterday, for the second time in just 3 weeks, we shattered our record for most visits to the blog. The numbers on “bad” days are now more than we used to get on pretty good ones. For that, we say a sincere “thank you.” Your visits are so encouraging, but I’d like to share with you some other ways to encourage your friends who blog. Since blogging is a very crowded space, it is hard to get noticed. And it can be highly frustrating, as well. There are now some 42million blogs just using WordPress alone (!), so getting “heard” is very hard. How can you encourage…
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Blog Hop: Podcasts We Like
Today’s post is very special, because it is a “blog hop.” Five blogs are all writing on the same topic, and we hope you will check each one out. The topic today is simply podcasting. Five writers are each listing the podcasts (by category) they listen to, and linking to where you can find the information about that podcast. At the bottom of the post is the link to the other writers who are involved. MY PODCAST LIST #1: Brotherhood Podcasts (produced by members of Churches of Christ) Ashville Road Church of Christ (Drew Kizer) Bear Valley Church of Christ Sermoncast (Neal Pollard) Behind the Pulpit (The Equip Network)…
