I want to find simpler and more effective ways to communicate online. Some of the projects I am working on at Maranatha deserve to be shared, but are often so time consuming they leave me with little time to write. Recording audio updates appears to be an excellent solution to the little-time, much-to-share problem. With this in mind, I am experimenting with several different services. Here’s a first attempt with SoundCloud.
I am a Major League Soccer fan. I have enjoyed watching their business grow over the past few years. They have made smart choices time and again to become a serious professional sports league in this country. If you are a business or soccer geek, you need to check out this video. I have particularly focused on their digital strategy. They are doing a phenomenal job marketing MLS online and in a variety of digital formats.
Those who know, say Don Garber is the best commissioner in sports. I agree. He has MLS in a period of major growth at a time when the naysayers are many and the business climate isn’t exactly favorable. Great job, Don.
To be “cool” is to resemble more closely the popular people and culture of the world in which we live. Those who don’t “fit in” cannot be cool.
Should Christians be cool? Should we have a desire to be cool? What does our desire to be cool say about our spirituality?
Well…our Bible tells us to be set apart, to be separate from the world. Not removed from it, but certainly not like it. Therefore, a desire to be cool is incompatible with a desire to be Godly. They are, by their very nature, totally opposing one another.
To make it clear: one cannot more closely resemble popular people and culture, while at the same time being “set apart”. It is impossible.
