But recently Cable Pro president, Larry Maezell experimented with a new idea that has so far been very successful. Now, instead of canceling a person’s service, or sending him or her repeated notices of delinquency, Cable Pro simply changes a customer’s subscription preferences resulting in his or her service becoming 24 hours of the Trinity Broadcasting Network on every channel. “It’s worked beautifully” said Maezell. “In the past we’d have to try and try to get in touch with the people who weren’t paying, try and get our man out there to cut off their service. It was just a big hassle. Now, they call us!
Apple plans to launch a cheaper version of the iPhone in the fourth quarter that could be based on the ultra-slim iPod Nano music player, according to a JP Morgan report.
Last weekend, Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks — and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons. Destination: Idaho. art.lawn.chair.ap.jpg Balloons suspend Kent Couch in a lawn chair as he floats in the skies near Bend, Oregon, on Saturday. With instruments to measure his altitude and speed, a global positioning system device in his pocket, and about four plastic bags holding five gallons of water each to act as ballast — he could turn a spigot, release water and rise — Couch headed into the Oregon sky. Nearly nine hours later, the 47-year-old gas station owner came back to earth in a farmer’s field near Union, short of Idaho but about 193 miles from home.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t hate John MacArthur. We’ve never met. He doesn’t know me from Adam. But there is a group of people who have elevated John MacArthur to almost cult status. In reality, he is one of the only (if not THE only) megachurch pastor that is still alive that some people like. (They used to really like John Piper as well, until a few months ago when he said the word “ass”.)
we’ve pretty much completed the screenplay for Blue Like Jazz the movie
for all the controversy over the different sex series many churches are doing these days, I’ve yet to hear one comment from someone about how against scripture that actual message on sex was in any of these series. All of the controversy has to do with the titles/marketing around them.
We’re college kids looking for money,” said Josh May, 18, of Benecia, Calif., who with four buddies formed an ad hoc business called “iWait” to stand in line for people who couldn’t do it themselves. May and his friends were the first ones in line at the Apple store in downtown Walnut Creek, Calif., after arriving there Wednesday.
