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The Eric Trap Blog Tour: Day 10
Posted on 25. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
Day ten, the end of the second week of the Orange Trap blog tour. It was a great week.
On this day, Jay Martin, Or jaymart as I know him wrote a great post about the book. He included a clip from the famous movie, “Spartacus.” I have to admit, I’ve never seen this movie, but he includes the clip of the famous part of the movie where multiple people stand and say, “I am Spartacus.” Jay described that when he read the book, he immediately identified with Eric Newman and after hearing so many other people declare “I am Eric Newman,” it made him think of this clip.
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The Eric Trap Blog Tour: Day 9
Posted on 25. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
I’m writing this several days late. I had a super busy weekend and I’m now at Orange… but I didn’t want to miss pointing out more of the great reviews. So, look for the updates catching everyone up.
Matt Norman who actively blogs over at Kidmin1124.com wrote a great post. Matt simply posted a brief summary of each chapter which is helpful as by just reading his summary’s you’ll see how this book is just right for you. I did love his opening line thought:
“the week caught up with Eric as he buried his face in his hands and wept.” With this one sentence I knew that his book was for me.
I think many people can relate to that experience.
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The Eric Trap Blog Tour: Day 8
Posted on 19. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
Yesterday was a big day for The Eric Trap blog tour. We took four virtual stops and people had some great stuff to say! So, let’s get started.
The first stop is over at the Compel Blog, which is the kidmin encouragement/resource blog for the Church of God of Prophecy denomination. Jason Vernon, the blog’s author is the senior pastor at RTP Community Church (which I wrote about a few weeks ago). He’s a great guy and I’m so glad to get the perspective of a senior pastor for this book. What spoke to him most was the chapter on delegation. Craig Gyergyo who wrote that chapter did an incredible job approaching delegation in a very unique way. Many of us do a great job delegating tasks, but we don’t delegate authority, which is huge. This chapter alone is worth the price of the book. Read Jason’s review here.
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The Eric Trap Blog Tour: Day 7
Posted on 18. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
So, yesterday was a slower blog tour day with just one stop. There were two other initially planned stops, but we’re going to circle back around to those stops in a few days. However, I got a real kick out of the featured review for the day.
Tom Roepke, who says he is not Eric Newman, does indeed work for New Hope Community Church, the same church where Eric Newman works… except Tom is in Ohio I think and Eric’s New Hope is in Houston. Pretty funny though. Tom Created a video review to go with his post where he showed the infamous hallway with his altercation with Jim Swanson. Don’t know what I’m talking about… well, you need to read the book.
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GREAT new song for kidmin!
Posted on 12. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
I hopped over to iShine the other day to watch some of the video clips over there. It’s a great site people!
Regardless, I came across this song and music video by Jaime Grace. I bet that’s not her real name… it sounds to perfect. Ha! As soon as I heard it I thought… the kids would love this song… even if it’s just fun music for when kids are hanging out. Toby Mac is in the song (small parts) which is fun as well. Looks like you can download the video… but its worth looking in other songs and videos by Jamie Grace.
Jamie Grace – Hold Me featuring tobyMac (Official Music Video) [www.keepvid.com] from iShine Live on Vimeo.… Read the rest
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The Eric Trap Blog Tour: Day 2
Posted on 10. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
Now we’re getting somewhere! Today the blog tour jumped to the next level with three different reviews. Trust me, it’s going to get a little nuts these next few weeks. Just wait until the week the book comes out!
Actually last night, Rob Livingston wrote a great post starting off day two. Rob is a bi-vocational kid’s pastor… a school teacher in Sweet Home Alabama. He and I broke bread (or tacos) at Chuy’s here in Austin 8 months ago and I think I made a friend forever by sending him on to eat the best BBQ brisket he’d ever tasted. The funny thing is that Rob didn’t have a blog 10 days ago when he requested a copy of the book… perhaps the Eric Trap prompted a new habit? I hope so! I liked Rob’s review a lot. He described how at one point he got really excited about a decision Eric made thinking, “finally, he got something right!” only to find out that this too was a bad decisions. This illustrates a story we wanted to tell.
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The real Eric Newman
Posted on 10. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
Sam Luce wrote a great post yesterday about the Eric Trap book. For a great behind the scenes scoop on the book, check it out.
However, as you read this book, I know that some of you may ask, “Who is Eric Newman really?” Is he a real person? Did you and Sam have someone in mind as you told his story? Hmmmm, maybe. Yes… but we’ll never tell.
But what we will tell you is that you’re asking the right question but looking for the wrong answer.
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The Eric Trap Blog Tour Begins
Posted on 09. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
So, today is the beginning of the three week blog tour for Kidmin’s newest resource, The Eric Trap. Last night, Jim Wideman shared a little of the “behind the scenes” look into how The Eric Trap came about. It’s certainly worth the read. Brother Jim has published several books over the years, but this one is the second book produced through his Infuse coaching program.
To start things off today, Jenny Funderburke posted her review of The Eric Trap. We picked her to start this tour because she’s been intimately involved in the project.
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The Eric Trap Blog Tour
Posted on 06. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
On Monday, April 9th, the Eric Trap blog tour BEGINS! Let me tell you. This isn’t like any blog tour you’ve ever seen. This one is going to be Epic. I’ll go ahead and apologize right now because the kidmin blogospher and twitterverse are about to get overloaded. Almost 50 people are participating in the blog tour and most will be using multiple streams of social media. Many of the bloggers will be giving away books (more than 40 up for grabs).
So, get ready. The Eric Trap goes on sale in 3 weeks and you’ll get some sneak peaks in the coming weeks about this new book. Stay tuned, I’ll post more on Monday as the blog tour starts up. I can’t wait!
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Free Books!
Posted on 06. Apr, 2012 by Kenny.
Everyone likes the sound of that, right?
My wife just sent me a link telling me that Francis Chan is giving away three of his most popular books away for free on the Kindle on April 6 and 7th only. You just have to shoot over to Amazon and download them today. I’ve heard Francis at the Orange Conference a few times and his messages were very challenging. However, I haven’t read any of his books yet (although they are on my list). Seeing this new, I quickly jumped over to Amazon and downloaded them, so hopefully I’ll get to read them this year.
I’ll make it easy for you. Click here to download the free books (the deal states that the books could go back to their regular price at any time).
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