Favorite Tweets of June
By Daniel Edwards | July 4, 2009
Here it is folks, the latest edition of Favorite Tweets or as it is known elsewhere, “SWEEEEEET TWEEEEEEETS.” You will need to see the twitpic or link to appreciate the “favoriteness” of a couple tweets that made the list.
In other twitter news here on the blog, I have written a introduction/explanation of twitter. Head there to learn what twitter is or to let me know what elements I left out. I am thinking on some twitter advice and will put it in a post in the near future.
Check out the series of Top Tweets.
Follow me here.
Follow our Church there.
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Nicole_Edwards Is the smart car that smart of a choice, cause i’m pretty sure it can fit in my trunk.
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PastorMark Once the Bible is less than God’s Word Jesus becomes less than God & sinners become less than sinful. The Bible is highest authority. #MDCRI
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mattdantodd This movie is 88 minutes long, which is about 90 minutes longer than it should be.
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edstetzer To pastors: We get praise but the Kingdom of God is hindered when we do things for people that they should do for themselves
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Mikecline1 Life is a circus, a balancing act between safety and pleasing the crowd.
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rachmint Had a great day at new hope free will baptist church.
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JasonBurton me replacing mower belt = fail
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cforbesoklahoma Beside every great man, is a woman telling him how to drive
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pastorbuhro Cunningham: “One day I was praying…ok, I’ll be honest, I was whining…& when I was done whining God showed up.” #GAC2009
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Nicole_Edwards Is thinking about getting a job @ the post office since i weekly deliver my neighbor’s mail
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rachmint Wants to publicly thank @pastor_daniel and @Nicole_edwards for their tremendous help this week.
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mattdantodd Kids are asking us who Michael Jackson is. Maybe we’ve failed them as parents.
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dbulaski My luggage is somewhere in outer space
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edstetzer LA airport security line wraps outside terminal. I can’t wait for govt to bring this level of service to health care.
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kidologist Good news… the Hokey-Pokey is NOT what it’s all about.
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NibbyP Olan Mills still uses 3.5 floppy drives
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RyanAkers watching The Bachelorette with my wife. I can do that now and just sound whipped instead of creepy.
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Nicole_Edwards Selling items on craigslist seems 2 open up opportunities 4 inviting people 2 church
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JacobRiggs Do me a favor. If you can’t pay attention to the sermon, don’t raise your hands during worship.
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Nicole_Edwards Our cinnabon closed-in other news tooth decay is on the decline in our area
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chris_clay The pad & pencil method of spiritual growth consist of getting on your knees with your Bible & writing down what’s wrong with you. AW Tozer
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jeffpost Jack and I just got on the big screen. It pays to sit next to a cute kid eating a bucket of popcorn bigger than his head
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PastorScott “God grant me serenity to accept the people I cannot change, courage to change the one I can, & wisdom to know it’s me.”
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RyanAkers congrats Randy Johnson. 300 wins and you caused a bird to explode. The only person in history to do both.
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BranchPastor http://twitpic.com/6kcsb - My favorite bathroom humor!
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edstetzer http://twitpic.com/6jqno - Great graphic explains it all: “Social Media: Unlocking the Awesome Potential of Behavioral Disorders”
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webby778 is sure that NOT touching the “bagging area” while using the Wal*mart Self Checkout ensures a smooth transaction.
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What is Twitter?
By Daniel Edwards | July 2, 2009
You probably have heard something about Twitter, and I am sure many of you know more about it than I do (For those on Twitter, I am thinking up a “Twitter Advice” post, so stay tuned). For those of you that aren’t sure about twitter, here is my best effort to explain it.
Twitter has been called “micro-blogging” since it is a way to share what you are currently up to, your opinions on a topic, a favorite quote, etc. The key attribute of Twitter is that you can only share 140 characters (letters and spaces) at a time. In other words, this definition wouldn’t work in Twitter. Post or updates, called tweets, have to be short and their often sweet. Due to this forced brevity you can keep up with several people with ease.
To me, the best part of Twitter is the ability to update by text message. This means that I can update my Twitter account as quickly as I can send a text message. It also means I can update from wherever I can send a text message, not just when I am at a computer. Most twitter updates that I send are text messages typed up while sitting at a red light or waiting in a line.
But Twitter isn’t just about telling people what I am doing, it is about keeping up with what other people are doing and saying. By “following” someone on twitter, you choose to receive their updates. Whenever someone I follow updates their twitter, it is becomes a part of my feed. I can receive these on Twitter’s website or programs designed for this purpose (Like TweetDeck). Just as I can send an update in by text message, I can also choose to receive updates by text message. It is convenient that I can follow someone online without receiving their updates as a text message, otherwise I would get text messages constantly.
Still confused? Want to set up Twitter? Read what I think is the best beginner’s guide for Twitter here. It is written by Michael Hyatt who is the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers. I met him on Twitter.
Every month I post my favorite tweets. I choose what I deem are the best updates shared over the past month by the people I follow. Check out some of these lists.
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Connect to Church
By Daniel Edwards | June 17, 2009
Our church’s theme for 2009 is “Connect,” and we are focusing on 3 main connections: Connect to Christ, Connect to our Church, and Connect to our Community. June and July are the months that we are emphasizing connecting to church. We are making this emphasis through the following:
Sermon Series of Diseases and Disorders of the Church
Connecting more people to the church’s online presence
Putting together a pictoral directory
Weekly breakfast and lunch meet-ups through July
(Look for more info on each in the coming days)
My hope is for the people who worship together at Faith to develop growing connections to one another and a strong connection to the mission of the church.
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Favorite Tweets of May
By Daniel Edwards | June 2, 2009
Here is the round up of favorite tweets from the month of May! Special recognition goes to MattDanTodd for what I believe is a new record with 3 favorite tweets in the same month. {As can be seen from the comments below, Ed Stetzer has surpassed the 3 favorites in a month a couple occasions. Hats off to both Ed & Matt!} May was another month of growth for twitter and another month of growth for the number of people I follow (this is due in large part to the outbreak of twitter at my former church, Gateway). I am attempting to keep the favorites list reasonably short since I want you to read them, not just scan for your screen name to see if you made the list. As my followers grow and the favorites list stays the same, it will become an increasingly hard and exclusive list to make!
Enjoy the favs, find some good people to follow, and tweet well!
Check out the past Favorite Tweets.
rachmint Just explained that a large part of using twitter is attempting to make the tweets of the month list on @pastor_daniel’s blog.
- jeffpost Training Jack to be a good Free Will Baptist. It went well until he asked to drink the water.
scottcheatham Pray for me..Getting ready to preach in Tuckerman, Arkansas via SKYPE from my office in Denver! Isn’t technology grand!! - Nicole_Edwards Combovers fool no one
- edstetzer Too many churches see their global mission duty as
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Quick thought on Closing Chrysler Dealerships
By Daniel Edwards | May 14, 2009
I just read that 6 area Chrysler dealerships will be closing. 6! I had heard that this announcement was coming soon and I expected to hear of some area dealership closings. Still, I was surprised to hear how many local lots would be shut down. I was also surprised to see that Hendrickson’s which is just down the road from us is included on the termination list.
I am definitely not an economist and I would not want the responsibility of choosing which dealerships to close. However, it seems that this move by Chrysler simply perpetuates the trend of killing off small local shops to make way for the bigger and better centralized locations. Chrysler is attempting to boost the nicer, bigger dealerships by weeding out the smaller, older lots. How has this trend worked in other areas of business? How have communities benefited from losing their mom and pop shops as the new Wal-Mart comes to town? As smaller lots like Hendrickson close, we lose the personal service that they provide. We gain more annoying commercials from EXPRESSWAY DODGE and others like them.
This move seems the same as closing my local bank so that the larger national banks will gain my business- even though the larger national banks are part of the reason that banks need to close.
I imagine that this will work out best for Chrysler’s bottom line. I doubt this is what is best for our communities and the economy at large.
Again, I am no expert and I am just giving my opinion.
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Favorite Tweets of April
By Daniel Edwards | May 4, 2009
As I prepare the latest list of favorite Twitter updates I have a few realizations: I haven’t posted anything since the March roundup, it is apparently tougher to make it on the list while I am on vacation, favorites seem to go in streaks (several favorites come within hours of one another), and there was no last second blitz of flattery and kissing up to make the list.
Check out the first installment of Twitter favorites.
Check out the favorites of February or March.
Check out my Twitter page.
This list is in reverse chronological order and not in order of “favoriteness.”
- cforbesoklahoma is everyone on LOST related–was this show filmed in Appalachia?
- Mikecline1 Saw chuck norris in an it email today. He was noted as having divine powers and impossible technology feats were compared to him.
Pastor_Daniel 4 year old Brandon invited the manager of his family’s apartment complex to Friend Day!
- bullash is watching a man sit behind his car at mount trashmore in a lawn chair listening to music with his car doors open.
rita215 Another prayer answered! I got the promotion i interviewed for!!! Excited!!
JacobRiggs Church Sign: OMG UR M G
- cforbesoklahoma quote: “The amount of adult diapers used by aging baby boomers will overflow our landfills.” –Ginger Sinsabaugh MacDonald
_ArthurSpooner Permission to buy another parrot and name him Douglass II.
- _ArthurSpooner Permission to buy a parrot and name him Douglass.
- JacobRiggs Randall House has bored meetings this week. I mean board meetings.
- JacobRiggs Once during a choir service in college, a friend hid the directors music right before we started. Brilliant!
mattdantodd Got a couple of dirty looks this morning. I think I stepped on some toes. Good.
webby778 is having an argument in Single Focus about twitter.
- jeffpost Just refed 3 Upward b-ball games & I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. Not a wimpy S10 either, a figurative truck Howie Long would approve
- PastorMark You don’t need a new spouse, you need a new marriage http://bit.ly/Q9VCP
- chris_clay” 4000 churches start each year. 7000 close each year.” - Bill Sheets.
coreymminter Is thinking he should update his twitter evet 10 seconds just to annoy all the people who bothered him so much to sign up for twitter
Nicole_Edwards I saw Colonel sanders twin 2night
SeinfeldQuotes “Well isn’t an architect just an art school dropout with a tilty desk and a big ruler?”
- edstetzer On the elliptical for The Hour of Power (without all that positive thinking stuff). Just me and the beast battling it out.
- Mikecline1 Claire’s is fun feels like i’m in high school musical or a disney sitcom
- JacobRiggs Can someone tell me when FWBs are gonna get rid of this logo? http://is.gd/spzb
- JasonBurton ctrl-alt-del
- edstetzer Praying that believers, pastors, and churches will make much of Jesus, the cross, and the resurrection tomorrow.
- edstetzer Finished bowling and, for some reason, just want to affirm the fine work of the Special Olympics. Good folks and an important service.
jwbottoms @pastor_daniel the obvious solution would be to change the name of your vbs and try again! Just kidding!!
- Pastor_Daniel My post office will not allow posters advertising VBS, but the local high school play with profanity in the title is okay.
- webby778 is anyone else getting the impression that Ron Hunter is dropping hints at me?
ronhunter Looking over list of some impressive people for potential endorsements for the Jonathan Thigpen book
- jeffpost Praying for a family who just lost a loved one. That kind of news puts things in perspective- my day doesn’t seem so stressful
- JacobRiggs had lunch with a “wiser” couple from church. The fact I’ve had a colonoscopy was a talking point. I can fit in with any demographic!
- JacobRiggs Does Hansbrough try one shot that doesn’t include that annoying whine? Such drama.
- webby778 just had a street preacher scream into his car through a megaphone. all SIN - no grace & mercy. Who wants that kind of God? …what a shame.
- jeffpost At the Taco Bell drive thru the servers name is John and my total is 3.16
- Nicole_Edwards a little girl in Bible club told me that some fruits of the spirit are apples & bananas
- kidologist Today is a once in a lifetime opportunity!
- RyanAkers hopes UNC wins the National Championship! April Fools!!!!!!!!!
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Favorite Tweets for March
By Daniel Edwards | April 2, 2009
Here is the latest installment in the “Favorite Tweets” series. Enjoy the 140 character updates that I felt were worthy of being called “favorites.”
chadmm@Pastor_Daniel I would not add @jeffpostlewaite’s tweet to Favorite tweets of March just cause he is a suck up. You know those Postlewaites
- jeffpostlewaiteWow! Check out this great blog! http://faithinchandler.com/... It has changed my life (and i want to make “Favorite Tweets for March”)
- edstetzerThe Prince of Preachers goes missional: “Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.” ~ Charles Spurgeon.
OkiejanOkay week - just you ‘n me - facing off!
- JasonBurtonlike a cloud has been lifted. Or a clown.
- jwbottomsSays: I really enjoy communion and feet washing. To some this may sound strange, but once you do it and think about what HE did and why, …
ronhunterPassing notes in church is easier with texting. The person does not have to be sitting next to you.
- edstetzerMorn msg; Service fosters unity. People rowing the boat are hardly ever the same people who are rocking the boat.
- edstetzerTmrw message: If I, as pastor, do for you what God has called you to do, I fail at my task, you fail at yours, & the mission of God suffers.
MichaelWaddellThe guy sitting next to me has been giving me the history of the Frence exploration of Wyoming. I enjoyed the first 10 minutes. An hour ago.
PastorPhillipsI wonder if Jesus would of used “twitter”? The Apostles might of been able to follow Him closer…
- jeffpostlewaiteKermit the frog was wrong. On March 17 it is much easier being green
LeadershipQuoteLeadership Guru John Maxwell forgot he had a handgun in his carry on and was arrested in the airport: http://tinyurl.com/d44z56
- jeffpostlewaitejust opened a Starburst two-pack. yellow and orange…yeah, it’s that kind of a day.
- bulaski3Was informed by Madaliene that if I watched Lassie as a kid it must be a really old show?
- _ArthurSpoonerLooking to buy a chainsaw. I am tired of throwing away my money on store bought jigsaw puzzles!
- JacobRiggsno offense to all you writers, but I’m getting pretty tired of Christian self-help books.
- edstetzerI am probably giving TMI, but I am pretty excited to have just bought new pants that are 12 inches smaller than they were one year ago.
Kevin_MaloneGot into a debacle with Stanley over the last glazed doughnut.
- Nicole_EdwardsDidnt wear slippers 2 work today
- Nicole_EdwardsDrove halfway 2 work and realized i was still wearing slippers
- Nicole_EdwardsHad a 1St grader tell me mamaw did his math paper-mamaw did it wrong
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