Tuesday, September 30, 2008 @ 9:19 am by Josh Burcham

Hearing reports that all the images from my blog are missing. Is it happening to you? Trying to figure it out.

Sunday, September 28, 2008 @ 10:22 pm by Josh Burcham

I know a lot of guys, myself included, that have struggled with this exact sin. If you’re there now, know that you can with the power of Christ overcome and beat this sin. Here is where you start (eBook, Porn-Again Christian by Mark Driscoll):
Next step is to talk with someone. Anyone. Ask for help.

Sunday, September 28, 2008 @ 10:13 pm by Josh Burcham

If this happened at our prisons I would visit every week.

How did they get everyone on cue! This is amazing!

Friday, September 26, 2008 @ 3:52 pm by Josh Burcham

So far the Avs are 1 – 1 this preseason. With a lost in shootout to LA on Wednesday and a win over Dallas last night this are looking good. Avs played their second string last night to give the seniors a break and they played well. Looks like we will be competing this year.

Friday, September 26, 2008 @ 3:24 pm by Josh Burcham

the weekend/week was: tiring. I am wore out. Between work and everything else going on. I just done physically, mentally and emotionally. On a good note: Andrew got his MacBook this past week and is loving it!
where i am at the moment: hortons.
ridgepoint update: looks like Ridgepoint church will have its First Elements (Pre-View Service) mid-October. I still have to lock down a place. Meeting with some people this week to talk through some basics for Ridgepoint.
work update: have my first Market Core this weekend for work. I’m a store mentor now and I hoping to grow in the role even more over the next couple of months.
procrastinating about: I still need to call Nationwide and figure out what it going on with them. I’ll try calling later tonight. I need to get back to reading as well.
book i’m in the midst of: nothing. I know. It’s weak, but its been on of those weeks and I just have had to many other things to worry about that I just haven’t made the time to sit down and read.
music that seemed to catch my attention this past week: Brandon Heath’s Give Me Your Eyes, easy. I have Chase addicted to it now. He has probably listened to it more then I have in the last two days.
from the BOOK: don’t you hate it that when we get down or overwhelmed with life we start to dift away from truth. The time when we need God the most, is the time we try to do it on our own.
how i’m feeling about this week: hard to say and I’ll leave it like that.

Sunday, September 21, 2008 @ 8:40 pm by Josh Burcham

Pre-Season starts this week! Avs play LA at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday!!

Saturday, September 20, 2008 @ 2:22 pm by Josh Burcham

Seth Godin’s post on Microsoft’s 300 Million Dollar Marketing Campaign.

If you spend more than a quarter of a billion dollars on an ad campaign for a tech company, people will talk about it. If you give Jerry Seinfeld, the most famous comedian ever, $10 million to be in a few of the commercials you do, people will talk about it even more.

Microsoft has fallen into a trap that befalls many large companies in search of cred, buzz or respect. They’ve decided to buy some via advertising.
For more than twenty years, Microsoft has relentlessly commodified itself and the software it makes. It has worked to become a monopoly, a semi-faceless organization that cranks out very good (or pretty good) software that gets a job done for the middle of the market. It’s been a profitable strategy.

But now they have Apple envy.

The Zune plays music, the iPod is the badge of a tribe.

A PC laptop runs Excel. A Macbook Air generates buzz and creates joy.
The answer must be to run better ads! And lots of them.
Question: When was the last time you met an Apple employee who was truly passionate about the products she made or sold? My guess is this happened the last time you went to an Apple store. When was the last time you had a similar experience with a Microsoft employee?

If you talk to Google employees, odds are that they are totally engaged and on a mission to change the way people interact with the internet and with information. Talk to a Microsoft person and they will be happy to talk about reliability or standards they set or the way to engage the bureaucracy of the organization.

Microsoft may very well not be broken. The world needs reliable bureaucracies that mollify the needs of corporations and individuals in the center of the market. But if it is broken, advertising isn’t going to fix it.

Great principle to apply to the church. If we were honest with ourselves we would come to a conclusion that people don’t give (money, time, energy, themselves) to ministries. They give to a mission, a vision! Our your ministry leaders excited about what the church is doing to fulfill it’s vision or they happy with the ministry they are involved in. Let’s rally the troops and run towards a vision.

Friday, September 19, 2008 @ 11:30 am by Josh Burcham

Great utility for the Mac. Keeps all your personal information, credit cards, address, logins in one place. I don’t know what would do with out it. One downside: you forget your passwords. If you aren’t near your phone (since they have an iPhone App) or your computer you’re tough out of luck in remembering the password.