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Today’s Buzz:  Limited Edition John MacArthur iPod and Selling Your Wife on eBay…

Some interesting stuff today... the John MacArthur limited edition iPod... Selling your wife on eBay, and even a story about a pastor who got 'pied' during a recent weekend service.

Limited Edition John MacArthur iPod
OK… I found this amusing… you can now order an iPod from Grace to You with 24 hours of John MacArthur preaching pre-loaded on it!  AND it includes ONE video sermon as well!  This is so cool, and revolutionary.  (I could almost say… innovative.) You can order one here.

QUESTION:  What if Rick Warren or Joel Osteen came out with 24 hours of their sermons on a special edition iPod?  I can read the blog posts now.  (Maybe Rick Warren will come out with one with porn on it)

If You’re Going to Throw a Pie in My Face, I Prefer Peach...
A Colorado man has been arrested for disrupting the Sunday service at a breakaway Episcopal parish by throwing a pie at the pastor.  Witnesses told police that the man entered a side door of Grace Church and St. Stephen’s Parish and hit the Reverend Donald Armstrong in the face as he preached a sermon on loving your enemies.  Parishioners caught the suspect and held him until Colorado Springs Police arrived. The Episcopal Diocese of Colorado moved to suspend Armstrong last year while it investigated allegations of financial misconduct. Armstrong has denied wrongdoing.  More here...

That’ll get him… let’s throw a pie in his face.  Seems to the be logical consequence for alleged financial misconduct.  Go figure.

Take my wife… Please!
This has nothing to do with church leadership, but I found it amusing:  The Brazilian government stepped in when a man tried to sell his wife on internet auction site eBay.  The advert, placed by a man named only as Breno, said: “I sell my wife for reasons I prefer to keep short ... I really need the money.” He described his wife and listed her qualities and said the 35-year-old was “worth her weight in gold”.  SOURCE

Maybe we should start up this type of service for some watch-doggie bloggers or angry church members.  Then again… who would bid?

That’s about it for today… if you think you have an item that should be included in the daily ‘buzz’, please email me at .

Have a great day!

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  There are 13 Comments:
  • Posted by

    Holy cow. He got a pie thrown in his face preaching a sermon on LOVING your ENEMIES. I’m sorry, but that is HILARIOUS! Of course, it would be hard to love the guy, but you’re in the middle of a sermon on it… so I guess you just gotta…

    We have a “love your enemies” sermon coming up. I think I just found a sermon illustration for my SP.

  • Posted by

    Also… NUTS… I just got a U2 iPod because of the cool red click wheel. I could have gotten one with JM on it. I bet I could have gotten it in black leather, like my Bible… Huh? (Actually, doesn’t look like a bad idea… We have a little fun at John’s expense around here, but he’s a good solid biblical teacher, ya gotta admit)

  • Posted by Leonard

    It is called the jPod for God.

  • Posted by

    "Take my wife… Please! This has nothing to do with church leadership”

    Oh, I’m not so sure about that one.... wink

  • Posted by RevJeff

    So does the JM I-pod come with a carry case with cool handles and a pocket that holds your virtual highlighter set?

    If I had my own brand of I pod it would come preloaded with OTHER people’s sermons… OF course they would only be sermons of pastors that agree with me… or stuff from the friday posts at MMI

  • Posted by Bart

    Shhh.  If people find out you can sell your wife on ebay the next thing will be selling your pastor.  Wait!!! That could be a great thing, a clearing house for churches to sell and trade pastors.  I could call it CCPI (Church Clearinghouse Pastors Inc.) and I could keep a small percentage (not to exceed 75%) for the work.  Hmmmm!!

  • Posted by

    I think I may have done that in a past life.

    smile

    Todd

  • Posted by

    Okay, everybody thinks it’s Friday. Enough of the humor. Get back to some serious work.

    wink

  • Posted by

    Sure thing Peter. First tell us who started it? And then I’ll go bake a pie. You guys can argue over who gets to throw it.

  • Posted by

    Odd, you can get an IPod online or retail for quite a bit less than that.  You can even get one direct from Apple for less that JM’s.  I guees the extra charges are for his sermons?

  • Posted by

    Actually, Daniel. That’s a fair price. It’s an 80G iPod, which sells for the same price at apple

    http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&mco=18C6CF82&node=home/ipod/ipod

    Macs sermons or The Edge’s signature? Hmmm… I’ll stick with my swank U2 ipod… (Listening to Bruce Cockburn on it even as we speak...)

  • Posted by

    Okay… Who is Bruce Cockburn? And having asked that - should I feel old, out of touch, in another universe, or ________?

  • Posted by Robert Pooley

    Actually… didn’t Mark Batterson come out with an ipod featuring his sermons a couple of years ago… i mean the guy just trys things first....

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