TPE Interview: The Road Less Traveled
This online interview with Ken Horn, Managing Editor of Today’s Pentecostal Evangel (The AoG national magazine) deals with my book, Off-Road Disciplines, and includes a link to a supplementary audio interview.
Turning Ministry on Its Side
Linda Leicht of the Springfield News-Leader gave the AGTS Off-Road Disciplines conference a great write up.
Off-Road Disciplines Flash Media
Leadership Network is making a flash media presentation available to promote Off-Road Disciplines. It includes my voice, Len Sweet’s voice, and lots of outdoor photography.
Hermetically Sealed
Last Thursday I arrived home after work to find that the very first hard cover copy of Off-Road Disciplines had arrived at my house. Up to this point I had only seen a PDF version of the text and a paperback edition (“uncorrected and not for resale,” the cover warns) known in the biz as a “galley” (named after the Roman slave galleys that bore newly published books from the provinces to the Emperor for his reading pleasure). Of course, I immediately sealed the new volume hermetically in a handy zip lock bag to preserve it from the wear and tear of showing the thing to everyone I can find. I took this photo at the Mud House, one of my…
ContinueEarl and Mark's Velocity
I read this in today’s EMP Datafile: “U.S. book publishers released 172,000 new books, and new editions of previously published works, in 2005, reports R.R. Bowker. That’s 18,000 fewer than in 2004 — the first time the number has dropped since 1999.” Now that’s what I call intimidating. What is the hope for any one book to find a niche or a market or whatever you call it when every publication is just a drop in a Niagara of words, and a shrinking Niagara at that. In a recent blog, Seth Godin explains how he believes ideas catch on in the networking age http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/09/what_makes_an_i.html: “For an idea to spread, it needs to be sent and received. No one “sends” an idea unless: a. they understand…
ContinueAmerican Idol as Marketing Paradigm
Today, Glen Davis, Chi Alpha missionary to Stanford University, http://www.glenandpaula.com/ sent the email below to Alicia Chole http://www.onewholeworld.com/ and me. The subject: books as a consumer product. Glen reports an interview with one of my favorites, Seth Godin http://sethgodin.typepad.com/:————————————“Seth Godin (marketing guru) was recently interviewed by Guy Kawasaki and the first question seemed apropos since both of you have already shared so much of your content in public venues: 1. Question: I am not worthy: How did you get your publisher to give you a contract for a book of stuff that you had already written and published? Answer: Books are the new t-shirts. We used to buy t-shirts as a way of covering our hard abs. Now, though, the purpose of…
ContinueOff-Road Disciplines
In Off-Road Disciplines, Earl Creps reveals that the on-road practices of prayer and Bible reading should be bolstered by the other kinds of encounters with God that occur unexpectedly—complete with the bumps and bruises that happen when you go “off-road.”
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Earl Creps—a popular speaker and leader—is director of the Doctor of Ministry program and associate professor at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS) in Springfield, Missouri. He has been a pastor, ministries consultant, and university professor. Along the way, Creps earned a Ph.D. in communication at Northwestern University and a doctor of ministry degree in leadership at AGTS.
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