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2 November 2009 tagged accept, body, car, donor, earn, educated, farm, flannel, gift, heart, life, machinery, man, nature, rescued, self-made, summer, wither with no comments
There once was a man who worked in the fields. He worked with farm machinery and had great knowledge of all things that grow. A tough man. Calloused hands. Sweaty brow. Soaked flannel shirts and long pants in spite of summer heat. He could accomplish more on a given [...]
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11 May 2009 tagged addicts, american, automatic, break, break a stereotype, christians, country, courage, criticism, farm, ghetto, goodwill industries, hearts, illustrate, interesting, kentucky fried chicken, middle east, middle easterners, minds, pastor, rap, rare, silly, stereotypes, suburban, Success, terror, thrifty, whiny with 3 comments
There are millions of silly stereotypes that we choose to either perpetuate or eliminate. The problem with stereotypes is that they are, at best, only partly true. They are often completely wrong. They don’t tell the whole story.
I find it so interesting when people break stereotypes successfully. Usually it takes [...]
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12 December 2008 tagged animals, awestruck, bill seaver, blackerby, blog, blogger, christ, church, content, conversation, deep, depth, evan, evan blackerby, evan shaw blackerby, excellent, farm, flash, flashiness, God, Greensboro, hype, hyped, hypocrisy, idea, JEsus, market, marketd, marketing, mcdonald, Microexplosion Media, North Carolina, old mcdonald idea, paradigm, read, reasons, shallow, shaw, shift, simple, simplicity, style, trump, valuable, value, valued, wordy with 4 comments
One of the reason’s I read Bill Seaver’s MicroExplosion Media is that he seems to always bring substance. He shares that people are looking for valuable content in a blog, in a conversation, in their world. Simplicity and valuable content trump style and flashiness any day.
In a wordy, over-hyped, [...]