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Saturday, October 5, 2013
Taxidermy Gets Creepy
If it wasn’t so creepy, I’d love to do taxidermy for the sheer creativity.
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Christianity Suppressed in Bangladesh Village
There is so much persecution happening against Christians, particularly in Mulsim countries, that it’s easy to miss news of the smaller communities of the world where Christians are facing similar roadblocks. The Bangladesh village of Bilbathuagani is one such place.
Reports are coming in that construction of a church has been halted by the local government and that threats of beating and eviction have been made to those professed Christians who do not convert to Islam. Since a new government was installed in 2009 that promoted religious freedom, Bangladesh has fallen off the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom watch list. Despite constitutional provisions declaring that the people are free to practice whatever religion they want, the village administrators are not willing to obey or even hear of it.
The country is made up of less than 1% Christians. It is a land where the opportunity to bring the Word of God is great. Pray for those who are spreading the Gospel and if you know of any ways that they can be helped otherwise, please let us know.
A local government official in central Bangladesh has halted the construction of a church, forced Christians to worship at a mosque and threatened them with eviction from their village unless they renounce their faith.
The Tangail Evangelical Holiness Church in Bilbathuagani village, Tangail district, about 100 kilometres north of Dhaka, was created Sept. 8 by a group of about 25 Christians who had been meeting secretly for three years.
Read More: World Watch Monitor
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Friday, October 4, 2013
Survey Paints an Interesting View of Jews and Christians in America
The headline of an article caught me off guard. It read, “More white evangelicals than American Jews say God gave Israel to the Jewish people“. It seemed strange enough to where it was likely going to be on some untrustworthy website with information from a faulty source, but it turned out to be Pew Research. While they’re still often slanted, they do better than just about any other research organization in the country at painting a mostly unbiased view of the data.
The general premise turned out to be true. When surveying the general public, most who considered themselves Jews by religion and the vast majority who considered themselves Jews in heritage only did not believe that God gave Israel to the Jewish people. By contrast, a slight majority of Christians (55%) felt that this was true. When looking at white evangelicals, the numbers were very strong. 82% believed that Israel was given to the Jews, a number beaten only by orthodox Jews at 84%.
Here’s the survey results followed by the story itself:
Israel defines itself as a Jewish state, and most Jews in the United States say that emotionally they are either very attached (30%) or somewhat attached (39%) to Israel. But on some measures, Jews’ feelings for Israel are equaled or even exceeded by those of white evangelical Protestants.
Read More: Pew Research
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Acting Out
This is an important distinction to make. Remember, the people who run the country were elected. Their salaries are paid by the people. They are not our bosses. They are not our overlords. They are our employees.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Raising dictators
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50 Years After the Schempp Decision, Scholars are Still Debating
There are those that would argue that the real downfall of America started with the decision in the case of School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp in which the court ruled that public schools could not teach from the Bible nor through prayer. Others have said it was an awakening moment in American law similar to ending slavery. The scholars are still debating the issue today, 50 years since the decision was passed down.
Today’s public schools are finding it harder to keep students in line. The last couple of generations have been less prepared for the world from a purely Christian viewpoint and are therefore behind when it comes to bringing Yeshua into their lives. Regardless of how the debates go, it is hard to argue with the results of the decision.
Here’s some background information:
Recently, Secretary of State John Kerry explained that if he could do it all over again, he would major in “comparative religion.” Were it not for a Supreme Court decision 50 years ago, this might not have even been possible.
We’ve been commemorating events from the anniversaries of the Civil War and the civil rights movement. But this landmark was not about race; it was about religion. In Abington School District v. Schempp (1963), the Court held that Bible reading and the Lord’s Prayer in public schools violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment. But while the Court declared that teaching children how to practice religion was unconstitutional, the majority and concurring opinions in Schempp also insisted that the academic study of religion was a valid and essential approach.
Read More: Christian Century
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Why don't my selfies ever come out looking this epic?
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Facebook marketing without ads is like racecar driving without wheels
There was a time not too long ago when Facebook was a viable marketing tool for businesses who did not invest into Facebook ads. Over the last year, this has changed to the point that today, ads are a necessity for most businesses to be able to find success.
Some have been very vocal about their displeasure over this. Nearly a year ago, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban publicly advised Facebook on how to make things better. This came after he watched his reach numbers drop dramatically.
There’s really no need to be upset. It’s a part of the game. Facebook is a public company that has to make money. If they make it easy for businesses to find success on Facebook without spending money (or worse, giving that money to a social media agency) then they would be dong a disservice to their shareholders. Compared to other forms of online advertising, Facebook’s is more user-friendly. They can be inline or on a sidebar. They appear on mobile devices nicely and rarely distract from the social networking experience.
From a business perspective, Facebook marketing without advertising versus those with a properly managed advertising plan are often night and day. The ads can account for exponentially higher traffic than similar pages that don’t advertise without being overly expensive, at least for small businesses.
Larger companies see that the rates go up sharply. Advertising a single post on Facebook can cost the owner of a small page as little as $5 while still generating strong results. On larger pages, a few zeros need to be added before it is effective. For huge pages, the options to advertise start in the tens of thousands of dollars per week and go up sharply from there.
Facebook has always had a challenge with demonstrating the effectiveness of their ads, but in many ways it’s more akin to television advertising rather than other types of online advertising. The mentality is clear to see. With search marketing and other forms of advertising, the goal is normally to grab people’s attention when they’re already in the market. With Facebook and television, the goal is to catch them when they’re higher in the sales funnel, exposing product information while increasing branding.
Nobody goes to their spouse to say, “I think we should look for a vehicle. Let’s turn on the television and wait for a car commercial.”
Nobody goes to Facebook thinking, “Okay, time to scroll down on my news feed until I see a car special.”
It’s for this reason that higher funnel sales work so well. The only way for most to achieve this goal of awareness and education is through ads. There’s simply no way for small- to mid-sized businesses to keep their Facebook marketing completely free and organic just as there’s no way to advertise on television without spending a little money. Thankfully for advertisers, Facebook ads are much less expensive and can often deliver equal or better results. From a pure ROI perspective, a strong overall strategy can blow away any other form of high-in-the-funnel marketing.
The days of Facebook marketing for free are dead. Facebook has made sure that your exposure with a little bit of advertising money heading their way can actually move the needle. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Facebook marketing for free has no chance of working unless you have an extremely interesting niche and or if you’re running a strategy for a company the size of General Motors. Then again, they shut off their Facebook ads, then turned them back on a few months later when they saw the real benefits.
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