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What I can't understand is why the book is unavailable, at least in the States and so far here in Singapore. I've never seen a book with more popular appeal and yet 40 people are forced to read the same copy of the book. When will a bigger publisher grab this book up and distribute it as it should be?
All I can say is that this book will get at the funny bone of all Christians (except, perhaps, the Mrs. Flushpools). But it will also help you shake off some of those rags of religion that you were never intended to wear.
Plass summarizes the gospel succinctly: God is nice and He likes you. Let's not complicate it more than we have to. Start by reading this book.
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I put the book on my shelf until recently. I picked it up again, mostly forgetting what I didn't like about it the first time. I quickly remembered, but I kept looking for different and new ideas. I found them. All I needed to do was to open my mind and use my imagination on how I could incorporate the ideas he has and use them. The results were amazing! I realized I had limited myself because I was really looking for a letter I could simply copy and change. Once I dropped that attitude, my whole view of the book changed.
Also, the formula for writing a great sales letter is the same whether you are writing something like mine or other types of copy or sales letters...
I highly recommend buying this book. Use it in the right way and you will see results.
One of the most common mistakes a poor salesman makes is trying to sell a product based on features. This is totally ineffective when compared to selling based on the benefits the product will provide the customer. Kennedy does an excellent job of demonstrating the difference and how to write a sales letter that focuses on the benefits to a customer. The result is a highly effective letter.
Add to this the tricks of the trade, writing style, revision information and multitude of other tips that fill the book and you have one of the best books on writing sales letters that I have ever read. Well organized, well written, and easily understood, Kennedy takes you through a complete and repeateable process from concept to followup to sale that does not miss a beat. If you want a sales letter that can produce leads and then convert the leads to sales there is no better book on the market today.
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I think that if you buy Visual FoxExpress and buy this book, you will reduce your learning curve by several months.
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A must be read book for all true race fans.
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Two stud hosses from Ft.Worth, having starred at TCU, find themselves together in NYC and playing for the football Giants. They've got themselves a little old date in LaLaLand with the...Jets in what you call your Super Bowl. Puckett tells the story (in first person) of the days leading up to the game by taking a small tape recorder wherever he goes. Along with his counterpart, one Marvin "Shake" Tiller, and the gorgeous and talented Barbara Jane Bookman, Puckett waxes poetic on everything under the sun, particularly the hypocrisy associated with such an event as the Super Bowl in LA. It's lewd, raunchy, politically incorrect, and about as funny a read as you'll ever find...
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There is no fat in the writing, and the book is packed with information. The entire PC process is covered; purchase (a great component description, including moneysaving tips), use (including software), upgrades and replacements. In a review there really is no way to convey an adequate description of all that is there. Just think of the time that you have spent talking to disinterested salespeople, looking at help screens, manuals, third party books, on hold on customer service lines, bugging friends, etc. Then think of a book that actually provides detailed, well-written guidance that answers questions. Get the book.
Win9x experts probably won't gain much from this book. However, they're not the intended audience, and I wholeheartedly believe The Unofficial Guide to PCs is well worth the price for any new Windows user.
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By far the most imtimate and well written part of this book was the last chapter that Kathy Eldon wrote.
Obviously Jennifer New loves Dan's life like we all do but unfortuneatly she never met him and that glaringly stands out in the biography. There is way too much creative license here,the fact he is raised to almost sainthood can be squeemish at times.Jennifer's writing leaves a lot to be desired, but through the clumsy writing you can't helped but be inspired by the life of Dan Eldon.
Dan is amazing!! His photos say more about him than any bunch of words can. 'The Journey is the destination" is a must have book!!
Flip through that and I guarentee your life will be changed forever!
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There's another book (and author) that is yet to be discovered... the book is "A Mobile Church For E.P.I.C. Times: Crossing Faith Community Borders" by Fred Peatross. Leonard Sweet wrote the Foreword and Brian McLaren and Sally Morgenthaler wrote back cover blurbs. Pick the book up here at amazon.com.
I felt that the most helpful contribution of Kimball's book to the conversation on the postmodern church was in drawing the clear distinction, as Webber does in The Younger Evangelicals, between seeker-sensitive megachurches and post-seeker-sensitive postmodern churches. The temptation that the conversationalists are all trying to avoid is that of creating a postmodern "method", which is a contradiction in terms. And while Kimball takes pains to include provisos against interpreting his more logistical suggestions as a new church growth method, and while including reviewer notes in the sidebars encourages the spirit of dialectic, I think McLaren in Church on the Other Side does a better job of making sure his suggestions are interpreted as discussion points - suggestions to jar our thinking and get us to think in new ways - and not as a new church method.
For example, I can't decide if it was a good idea or not for Dan Kimball to put a diagram of a postmodern worship service layout in a book on postmodern church. I was so tempted, as many would be who think about these things all the time, to go right to the diagram and then read the book through that lense. And the flashy cover with numerous callouts within the text is unnecessary, I think, for Kimball's intended audience. Postmodern Christians are ready to be challenged, and not be spoonfed.
As Webber relates, "The point is not to do postmodern church; the point is to meet the needs that postmoderns have."
Too often the young are dismayed by the lack of biblical principle in church, where the goals of the pastors are to have a new piano, PA or plastic flowers. In Kimball's book, he offers insights into how to design and worship in a way that attracts people to Christ in an innate way, not just in an expected two times per year visit (i.e. Xmas and Easter).
I found it an honest and refreshing look at how emerging churches have potential to unite and heal and bring spiritual growth to a community.
It seems clear that Kimball has gained experience through his work, and I believe that he is onto the right direction in bringing the message to the emerging culture.
Kimball has some great insight on how to achieve that, based on his own struggles, thoughts, and successes.
The combination of Adrian Plass's incredible sense of comedic timing and deep insights into Christian living, will leave you apologizing OFTEN to family members for interrupting their activities with your recurring outbursts of irrepressible laughter. The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 3/4 proves once again that Plass can dish out consistently humorous insights, while at the same time challenging the reader to seriously examine his/her own Christian walk.
If you're feeling like you can't possibly fathom attending even one more church (dis)function, The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 3/4 is an absolute must read!
Sam D.
P.S. Addrian's a hysterical read - an anagram of "The Sacred Adrian Plass Diary".
(Alright. You caught me! I spelled his name with an extra "d". It's better than the alternative anagram though, which is "P.S. Adrian's a hysterical adder". His work DOES have bite, but it's far from venomous.)