Luke 2:1-20; John 1:1-14
December 24, 2007
Lake Harriet Christian Church
Minneapolis, MN
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Is the Tipping Point Toast?
Marketers spend a billion dollars a year targeting influentials. Duncan Datts says they're wasting their money.
Fortune: Hillary's modest proposal (to wreck the housing market)
The current mortgage mess requires a more intelligent approach than the buzzsaw plan floated by Hillary Clinton.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
When Ross Perot Calls…
The former presidential candidate blasts John McCain, and gets an education about Barack Obama's religion.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Mars Hill Tackles Sex, Rape, Birth Control the Biblical Way
"Do you believe that abortion as a result of rape is wrong?" one worship service attendant at Mars Hill Church in Seattle posed to the pastor.
It's one of many controversial and long-debated questions being asked at the growing church that draws a large twenty-something crowd every week. Pastor Mark Driscoll has opened up the pulpit to a daring "Ask Anything" session, giving unscripted answers to questions not typically addressed in the church.
And the content being addressed over the course of nine weeks has been divided into two categories: offensive and really offensive.
Spiritual growth nurtured within
Religious or not, Americans focus on their inner lives as a path to God or a shelter from the 24/7 storm
Kudlow 101: Recession Indicators
A quick snapshot of the official recession indicators. These are from National Bureau of Economic Research. There are four indicators.
2007 Online Holiday Retail Sales Grew 29 Percent as Tracked by Chase Paymentech Pulse Index
Sales volume and the number of transactions conducted at 10
of the largest U.S. retail Web sites rose 29 percent during
the 2007 year-end holiday shopping period, according to data
tracked by the Chase Paymentech Pulse Index
(http://pulse.chasepaymentech.com), suggesting that online
shopping provided one of the few bright spots in an otherwise
sluggish period for the retail sector.
A four-day span in mid-December (Dec. 11-14) generated $598.1
million in online sales for Chase Paymentech Pulse Index
merchants for a daily average of $149.5 million. This was
the busiest sustained activity of the 2007 online holiday
season, and occurred two weeks prior to Christmas Day --
evidence that more shoppers were turning to the Web to do their
holiday shopping while ensuring delivery in time for holiday
celebrations.
Other significant metrics from the 2007 online holiday season,
as tracked by the Chase Paymentech Pulse Index, include:
-- Single-day highs: $168.9 million in sales and 3.05 million
in transactions (both on December 18)
-- Highest single-day average ticket order: $62.57 (November 28)
-- Busiest online shopping day of the week: Wednesdays, with
average daily sales of $103.7 million
-- Least-busy day of the week: Sundays, with average daily sales
of $61.5 million
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