Chief Amongst You

The other day I had a conversation with a friend about mistakes and the importance they are in our lives. It is easy to point the finger when someone makes a mistake and say, “Shame on you,” but I’ve learned from first-hand experience that mistakes are often our greatest teachers. They may not be the most gracious of teachers, but they are often the ones we never forget. After...
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Facebook Case Study

It’s a rare moment when I see something being done online and instantly want to try it out for one of our clients. This however, is a great example of integrating Facebook with your offline marketing activity in a completely new way that I would love to try! It comes from Coca Cola in Israel. At their amusement park in  Israel, an annual event called Coca Cola Village,  they issued...
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Who Am I?

This is a question I’ve been asking a lot lately. I am in a search to discover an identity that cannot be shaken. I want to know what it means to be so captivated by God that it satisfies all other desires. Misty Edwards wrote a song called “Arms Wide Open” that I’ve had on repeat as I’ve been asking God what this love looks like. Part of the song reads: I once...
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Wild Hogs

If you would have told me that today I would wake up, sign our church up for five new forms of advertising with one-year contracts, kill a wolf spider the size the of my head in someone’s office, and buy a Harley, I would have told you it’s another day in the life of Christ Church Kirkland’s Marketing and Communications Director. Oh wait, what did you say? That’s not...
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Asking the Right Question

I have tried starting this blog article six times now. I am sitting on a plane, returning from Costa Rica, and have tried six times to figure out how to begin putting my current thought process into words. I know what my point is, I know who my audience, but I struggle with my introduction because I don’t know what the right question is I am trying to answer. And this is the problem with...
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