Thomas Umstattd Jr.

If you are a writer or a speaker this will help you understand how words work and how to make you message stick. This talk comes from the books Presentation Zen by Garr Reynold and Language in Thought and Action by S. I. Hayakawa.

Here is a recording and slides for the Ladder of Abstraction talk that I gave at the Austin Rhetoric Club a few weeks ago.

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Here is a talk I gave at the 2007 Christmas Evangelism Boot Camp. You may recognize the first few minutes as from my blog. The audio quality improves dramatically after about five minutes.

Summary

Learn the principles that ground good evangelical methods. Learn to balance your presentation of the Gospel between Spirit Truth and Love. In this talk we discuss the challenges to balanced evangelism and how to overcome them. You can get the Balance in Evangelism Handout from here .

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Before we get started, I would like to share a story. A family once had a pool party at their house. They had friends from all over filling their backyard.
While no one was looking a young boy creep ed over to the pool and fell in. "That kid can’t swim!" One of the ladies said. Then a man replied; "Why don’t you go and help him?" (more…)

I have recently started my first podcast. For those of you who don’t know what a podcast is check out my other post what is a podcast? My Podcast is on the Dangers of Computer and Video games and will act as a companion to the book I am writing. You can listen off of the webpage or subscribe in iTunes.

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This short 4 minute video explains podcasting better than anything else I have ever seen.

I know many of you were bummed when the Antioch leadership decided not to do a CD for World Mandate 2007. I respected that decision and am content with the World Mandate CDs I already have. One song by James Mark Gully though I really loved. It is called Jesus is the Lord and it is one of my favorite songs. Well Antioch has just released that song in a royalty free download from their website.

Story Behind the Song (from the Antioch website)
“Robert Fuller, our college worship pastor, walked into my office one day with half of a verse and half of a chorus. Immediately, I said, “We need to finish this song together.” The result is an anthem that declares that Jesus will receive the reward due for His sacrifice: the worship of people from every nation and tribe. It is a song of humble, passionate adoration of Jesus in all His glory. Both of us are amazed at what God has done through “Jesus is the Lord” at Antioch, and so we wanted to make it available to you here as a gift. May you offer it back to Jesus with a heart wholly given to Him.”

James Mark Gulley, Pastor of Worship & Arts