“That’s Great. Now What?” (The 7 Minute Sermon)

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:39:02 -0800

While home for the holidays, I preached a sermon at Plymouth Presbyterian Church, the church where I grew up and where my parents still attend. The sermon title is “That’s Great. Now What?”, and it’s about the Christian experience of being given revelation and left to sort out the details for ourselves. It was the Sunday after Christmas, and I chose Deuteronomy 34 and Mark 16:1-8 as my Bible passages. Through providence or luck (depending on how you reckon such things), the Deuteronomy passage was where a church Bible study had reached, so that worked out well for them.

My mother told me that I had to keep it to 7 minutes, and those who know me from the No Fluff tour know that I barely clear my throat in 7 minutes, so I was moving at a good clip. There’s also a couple of major gaffes where I was thinking a bit ahead of what I was speaking. Instead of editting around those, though, I decided to just leave it au natural. All in all, I’m rather proud of it.

This post was by Robert Fischer, written on December 29, 2009.
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“What is a BarCamp?”, Featuring BarCampRDU 2009

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:49:51 -0700

The newest podcast episode: an introduction to BarCamps.

This podcast explains what a BarCamp-style conference is and how it works (at least, how BarCampRDU works), and then goes through the sessions that were pitched. There was a lot of feedback from BarCampRDU that centered around nervousness or confusion about pitches: people thought they had to do something ahead of time or have a pre-rehearsed presentation or be an expert in the field in order to make a pitch. And some people just didn’t get it until it was too late. I really hate hearing, “I would have made a pitch, but I wasn’t sure how to.”

So I created this podcast, which goes through BarCampRDU’s pitch process and then runs through the pitches that were made at BarCampRDU 2009. It features Matt Frye and Tanner Lovelace as unwitting co-hosts, and background music from Durham’s own Permanent4 (a.k.a. Dave of Dave’s Lounge, which I love).

Hopefully this helps people make sense of what’s going on and gets more people involved next year.

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August 14, 2009, BarCamp RDU 2009 Grid Time Lapse | Enfranchised Mind wrote: [...] This is just so cool I had to share it: check out this awesome time-lapse of the grid by Tanner Lovelace. Tanner is one of the two unwitting hosts of “What is a BarCamp?”. [...]

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Original EnfranchisedMind Podcasts

“That’s Great. Now What?” (The 7 Minute Sermon)

“What is a BarCamp?”, Featuring BarCampRDU 2009

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