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Stumbled into this over the weekend.
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I read the blog, Cognitive Daily, and today stumbled into something worth remembering.  The piece was on the effectiveness of humor in Super Bowl advertising, but speaks to preaching as well.
Surprisingly, there actually hasn’t been much research on the effectiveness of humor in ads. Instead, most research has focused on expectancy: if something in an [...]

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On Saturday I challenged us to consider asking questions versus making statements in our sermons.  Today I stumbled upon a piece that was sharing methods to tell a story like Malcolm Gladwell.  (Author of the new book, Outliers as well as The Tipping Point and Blink.)
They gave 7 methods, but this one was [...]

Dan and Chip Heath, authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, have a new article up on Fast Company.com.  It is about making presentations and how they can be more engaging to the listener.
I think these two paragraphs sum up the article quite well.  They read….
….Great presentations are mysteries, not [...]

This is good.

Thanks to Pastor Hacks for the find.

Thanks to Church 2.0 for the heads up on this one.
Over at Movietools.info is a series of free background loops.  They look fairly simple but hey, the price is right.  You can check them out here.
Also, don’t forget to check out my links to a couple of different sets of free countdown videos.  (Link 1, [...]