What If Starbucks Used Church Marketing?

What If Starbucks Used Church Marketing?

The blog ThinkChristian  clued me into this great video from Beyond Relevance. It answers one of the great questions: what would it be like if Starbucks based its customer experience on churches?

How do you find it when you visit a new church? Perhaps, it doesn't alway go that comfortably. This video definitely brings back some memories for me. I'll have a new appreciation for the simple joy of buying a coffee (which I already quite enjoy).

Here to Make Friends?

Found this video on ThinkChristian. IIt's demonstrates a common cliche in reality tv: the "I ain't here to make friends".










What it makes wonder though is whether this isn't just a reality TV thing. One of the girls above says that she already has enough friends and doesn't need anymore. I wonder if there are times when I'm just civil to people but deliberately avoid anything deeper then an acquaintance. If I am, which I'm sure I am in at least some situations, how am I missing out?

Bradley Hathaway

A while ago, I came upon this guy on the X3Church podcast.

He's a Christian poet or spoken word artist and his work is beautiful.

Look him up on Youtube and Myspace to hear some more: Bradley Hathaway

I'm planning on ordering some of stuff on Amazon once I get a 3V (online purchasing) card sorted.

John Piper and the Prosperity Gospel

This is a video that I found on Benjamin Euler's blog. John Piper is talking about the Prosperity Gospel.
I have to say I can understand why he is so angry about this. I come from a background in a prosperity Gospel church and I've seen first-hand the damage that this false teaching does.

It raises expectations for God to deliver and when God doesn't give wealth, health and joy, people question  their faith, their righteousness and eventually leave the faith. Prosperity Gospel IS NOT a good thing.

I think my experience with the prosperity gospel is what gave me the passion I have for confronting false teaching. That's about the only benefit that my dealing with it have had.

Video of the Last Gap

This is the video that George put together of the last Gap with the Gasons.

Good times... Good times...

A New Hope (for sitcoms)

This clip sums up in ninety seconds, all ten seasons of Friends, the undisputed sticom king of the nineties. Sure, it had it faults: not least of all, its disregard of anyone other then liberal, white Americans. However, at the bottom line, Friends was funny.

However, a darkness is rising off the plain of US sitcoms. It’s not quite there yet, but within a year, we could be devoid of any decent US sitcoms.

• Friends – over after ten seasons
• Will & Grace – over
• Fraiser – Over
• Joey – put out of his misery
• Stacked – dead before it had a chance
• Everybody Love Raymond – nobody likes Raymond
• The War at Home – characters aren’t likeable
• Scrubs – season 6 is rumoured to be the end for Sacred Heart

This brings me to the new kids on the block: Will and Gareth (those in the above clip).
These guys are the main character of Scrub’s creator, Bill’s Lawrence’s latest project. Nobody’s Watching is the story of two guys (fraternal lovers in the vein of Turk and J.D.) who love sitcoms and given the chance from WB to create their own sitcom while WB record their own show about the making of the sitcom. So, basically a very easy premise.

In an evil twist of fate, NBC (in reality) cancelled the show after the pilot. In a good twist of fate, the pilot made it onto YouTube and international interest was raised in the show. Now, Nobody’s Watching has started an internet campaign to get it’s show from NBC (ironically, the opposite of in the pilot). I watched these guys, they’re good, very good. Here’s the link to their site. Go there. Watch It. Tell your friends.


I want this show to make it to air. We need a light in sitcom land.