by Michael Buckingham
Now here’s a challenge I can get my hands around! Relevant Church in Tampa, Florida has issued a 30 Days of Sex (or not if you’re not married) challenge. There are so many cool things about this.
First it is getting a…
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Tags: 30 days, marriage, sex
by Michael Buckingham
Gap has launched a fun project, Sound of Color, in which they asked various artists to create music based on a specific color. Below is Marie Digby’s translation of the color yellow.
found at Three Minds.
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Tags: color, gap, sound
by Michael Buckingham
If God puts something across your path that may not be the picture of how you see your calling, take a step back and remember: it’s not about you.
I had the honor of doing just that this weekend as a…
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Tags: conference, speaking, youth
by Michael Buckingham
Life Clever points us to greeting cards that actually don’t suck. Maybe it’s just because I see everything through a designer’s eye, but it really is hard to find a greeting card that I can actually put my name on…they’re usually…
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Tags: greeting card
by Michael Buckingham
That’s a quote from Eli Manning in an interview after winning Super Bowl XLII. At first glance it seems that he must have gotten hit too hard, after all a field goal wouldn’t be too hard to tie the game…
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Tags: superbowl, tie, winning
by Michael Buckingham
Many think of graphic design to be something belonging to recent history, birthed by big brands. Graphic design, or visual communication, has in fact existed for thousands of years.
The History of Visual Communication gives a brilliant visual history of the birth…
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Tags: design, history, origins
by Michael Buckingham
It’s one of the most frustrating things in the world of church marketing. The people around you, maybe it’s the church administrator, maybe it’s the church board, or even the pastor, don’t understand the impact of marketing and excellence in…
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Tags: change, church, church board, fear, pastor, resistant, stuck
by Michael Buckingham
I don’t follow football religiously, I can’t tell you who won the AFC last year or anyone’s record. Fortunately, I do enjoy watching the game because what is normally my highlight of the Super Bowl was a complete disappointment this…
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Tags: commercials, super bowl
by Michael Buckingham
I was chatting with Terrell Sanders of ministryCOM and during our conversation, we were talking about the possibility of speaking on sermon branding at the conference, we stumbled upon a pet peeve of mine. Church “creatives” stealing ideas from Hollywood. You’ve…
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Tags: movies, pop culture, stealing
by Michael Buckingham
This sermon series, for Sam Rijfkogel at Grand Rapids First, is all about pressing towards greatness. The series was also attached to their Vision Sunday, Martin Luther King day and Sanctity of Life day – A tall order.
We quickly threw…
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Tags: grow up great, series highlight, sermon branding