So far I’ve sold and shipped 6 things on ebay since my little announcement last week. I had one little setback of an item that didn’t sell. That’s okay though. It’s been relisted and is hoping for a second chance. Today I’m going to list another wave of items because I didn’t list for a couple of days.
But here is the problem you see… After I do some weeding, I find more room to put things I do want. So now there are empty spots in my house where things like this
or this
What makes these so great you say…
Are they valuable? Probably not. Are they tacky? Probably so. Are they Jesusy? DEFINITELY. And that is why I must have them.
It’s vicious cycle. For now I’ve vowed it off. No buying on ebay. Not until I’m competely finished with my purge. And of course, these items will have found new homes by the time I’m ready to start purchasing. It’s quite sad. But I’ll manage. Luckily for me ebay has a lot of stuff (and I have poor taste).
But wait. You could buy them for me. Wouldn’t that be grand? If you do, I’ll send you a custom prayer. If you get both of them for me, the prayer might even include ritualistic animal sacrafice. If you want to buy them for me, just click the pictures…
Since I was still a little distraught over the brother Benny Hinn losing out to Rick Warren, I’ve decided to now support another person on their quest called the Great Commission. It almost inspires me to resurrect my “Even Greater Commission” that I spoke about a couple of years ago. I think for the sake of misty water color memories I just might start that back up…
Anyways, I’d like to get back to my new friend Pastor Shepherd of the Power Hour. I’m sure you’ve probably seen his show, The Power Hour, and depending on what state you live in you might have even heard news reports or seen the billboards about his 2008 presidential campaign. If you’re not familiar with him, you should probably click one of these links and get in the know.
Pastor Shepherd has friends in high places (in addition to me) and is only going to move up. My prayer for him is that next year he overtakes Rick Warren’s 49% household name recognition ranking.
The following is a clip of actor Gary Busey on the Power Hour:
Gary still unfortunately seems to be battling some inner demons but for what it matters I think his heart is in the right place. Bless Gary Busey and Pastor Shepherd and bless you.
I’ve decided that my current belief system isn’t working out for me and now I need your help. YES. YOU.
I am at this stage in my life I’ve gotten to the point where I keep running into the same question over and over and over again… Because of that, I know it is time for a major change.
Here is where you come into the picture… I have to ask you a very personal question about your faith so I can decide if I should convert. Does your religion have really cool hats? I’ve got this cowlick issue going on with my hair and it never seems to want to lay down right. If I was able to find a really good religion that could help solve (or hide) my embarrassing hair issue, I know I could give myself completely.
Hey, and for those of you whose religion (or lack of) doesn’t involve stylish hats… You can still help. Just point me in the direction of some holy head coverings so I can learn more.
Oh, and btw… If you write an article about certain religious figures or/and link to a magazine that they might be publishing (even though you don’t mention the magazine by name and aren’t linking directly to the publisher or an image), the magazine publisher will visit your website. So will at least one person from an IP owned by a religious figure you mention. Oh and so will some jackassy internet image/brand protection company.
According to a recent article on the Christian Post, the profitable prophet behind the Purpose Driven™ brand of Christianity has now surpassed Benny Hinn, one of my all-time favorite holy rollers, in household recognition.
The poll by the HCD was conducted less than 10 days after the inauguration, so surely Rick got a little bit of an Obama bump but still…
For those of you who don’t know about Benny, he is mostly TV and stadiums and he does waste a lot of time firing up people in Africa and South America. He probably doesn’t get the face time on TV that he had 10 or 15 years ago though. He’s not as cool as Benny Hill but he definitely has his own pizzazz.
Rick Warren also does the stadiums and his 30,000+ person megachurch but his biggest helper is WalMart, with its humble book section. More than 30 million copies of the Purpose Driven Life have been sold (and that’s as of 2006). In addition to that, he has sold millions of copies of his other book on how to put asses in the seats. Any clergyman worth his salt knows that more asses in the seats mean more money in the coffers, so of course thousands of churches are pushing his product.
Benny likes the theatric…
Where as slick Rick would rather blenderize 14 translations of the Bible into one new and improved version that he wrote.
To be honest, I’m a little sad that Benny got beat by an Oprah impersonator, but then again Benny Hinn doesn’t have the support of the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Barack Obama so what can you do…
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that most “Purpose Driven” churches are modeled off of this video?
Rick Warren has got it down pretty good.
If you haven’t read the Purpose Driven Church, you should. It’s a great marketing book. And no, not the Purpose Driven Life. Skip that book. That is the book given to the bilkee, not the bilker.
Back to PDChurch… There are so many useful chunks of info in there that I don’t know how I ever suckered people without it. It even goes so far as to give a list of types of people who easiest to trap in your web. Okay, well I guess that part is kind of common knowledge. The reason why it’s more impressive is the fact that he had the stones to put it in a list format and print it.
It tells you to make a lot of changes to the church (specific changes). It mentions the use of music with more bass. Bass is important to Jesus apparently. It tells you that some people will not like the new church but that’s okay because they are dead weight. Fill people’s life/time with activities so they don’t have time to themselves or with other nonmembers.
