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Get ready! It’s time for Videos of the Week and we aren’t messing around this time!

If you’ve grown to hate the Verizon Wireless “Can you hear me now” guy, then this video might just redeem him.

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Church Marketing Sucks celebrated its 4th birthday yesterday, so I wanted to say congratulations to the CMS team—Brad Abare, Kevin Hendricks, Joshua Cody, and the occasional guest blogger—for their fine work. Blog years must be similar to dog years because the genius, wisdom, and insight of CMS is far beyond that of any 4-year-old I’ve ever met. And what a great motto: Frustrate. Educate. Motivate. (Remember, I’m a big fan of mottos.)

Keep up the great work, guys.

In addition to our daily blog and our ever-churning UpFront section, we’ve been busy adding new article content to the site. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s new in the last week or so. Hopefully you’ll see something you like.  Read the rest of this entry »

I’m curious: As a generally tech-savvy audience (you at least know how to navigate to a blog), what do you think of podcasts? Do you subscribe to a bunch of them? Do you look to them for entertainment, information, or something else? Or are you over the podcasting craze and instead spend your time listening to music? Are you constantly looking for new podcasts to add to your library or is your library clogged with a ton of feeds you never listen to? If the entire podcasting medium disappeared tomorrow, would you be bummed or would you even notice?

Please share your thoughts below.

Well my friends, the week’s almost over which means it’s time to for Week in Review!

• YouVersion has created a free iPhone Bible application and it is amazing. Thanks Lifechurch.tv!
• A conference in the boonies for churches in the boonies. 
• Blu-ray discs will see a price cut this fall; too bad the players are still ridiculously expensive. 
• Did the Beatles like Jesus after all?
• Author Douglas Wilson is blogging his entire book, Evangellyfish.
• Ben Arment defines “The Nooma Effect.”
• Pope Benedict XVI is texting!
• Come to church and we’ll give you a free semiautomatic assault rifle! If that don’t git you in the door, ain’t nothing gonna!
• Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is horribly hilarious. Seriously, watch this.
• Phil Vischer of VeggieTales talks about Christian media.
• Our friend Camron Ware is finally blogging!
• Apple is now the 3rd largest computer maker in the U.S. Congrats Stevo!
• The highly anticipated Dark Knight hit’s theaters today and is likely to be this summer’s box office smash.

Honorable Rejects:

• The actor who plays Professor X in the Marvel Comic’s X-Men movies actually became a real professor.
• As you may have heard, cow farts release a lot of methane gas and are hurting our atmosphere. So some scientists thought of this!
• Little girls might not be playing with Barbies anymore after the newest release.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the Dark Knight!