I had saved an audio interview that Seth Godin had in his blog, and finally got around to listening to it. It’s a talk that he did, along with answering some questions, on how a non-profit organization can raise money in a society like we have today.

Check it out here.

The longer I’ve thought about it, the more true it becomes to me: churches need to create interactive experiences for their members to act out their faith. These experiences will give the people who take part in them a story to tell. When people get to tell a story about themselves doing something that was positive, and happened because of their church then the church will become interesting. Interesting to people who don’t do church, but do enjoy **blank**

Dave Ramsey’s advice: By and large, 70% to 90% of you wanted something to be done to calm the economy, but you didn’t want $700 billion in new debt to bail out Wall Street. The stock market has had record declines since then. What’s going on?

You need to remember that you need to take control of your life. It’s disturbing that people in government totally disregard what the people tell them to do. It’s disturbing that the market goes down and the media panics about this. It’s disturbing that greedy banks made loans to people who couldn’t afford to repay, and people signed up for the trip when they couldn’t afford it. It’s disturbing that Washington ignores its constituents and takes huge strides toward socialism.

All of these things are disturbing, but none will cause this great nation to cease to function. They are not the beginning of the end. But the most disturbing thing is some people’s reactions. Don’t react based on fear or panic. Another negative reaction is that you are looking to Washington to fix your problems. They have never fixed your problems, and you want Obama or McCain to fix things. There has never been a president who can fix your problems. They always say they can and they never can.

YOU are in charge of your destiny. YOU are in charge of your life. When you look to Washington to solve your problems, we’ve got the seeds to destroy this country. It’s time for you to change your life. It’s not Washington’s job to fix what’s going on with you. If you are waiting on Washington to change something, you’ve got a very long wait! It is YOUR job to take care of you. Don’t sit around and watch TV and panic and think you can’t do anything. I’ve made and lost money, and every bit of that had to do with me being smart and diligent or stupid.

Quit blaming Congress or looking to them to fix you. YOU have to fix you! When you wait on the government to fix your life and wait for money to be taken from others and given to you, that’s a spirit of envy. The only system that works is capitalism functioning under moral restraint. Go be somebody!

From: The Dave Ramsey Show blog

Seth Godin has given me the green light.

I know that a lot of people are panicking about the economy, and all the different uncertainty that is going on. That didn’t effect the decision that Josh and I made last week. It is a theme throughout the Bible, and it was time to act, not a time for fear.

I have loved the idea of working for myself for as long as I can remember. My parents do it, and I think that it is the best way to live. There is no ceiling. You can succeed more than you could ever do inside someone else’s company. The risk is, you can fail. I’m willing to fail. Are you?

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. - 1 John 4:18 NIV

The new version of the Oral Roberts Ministries website is up now. I designed it, and would love to have feedback.

www.orm.cc

In other news, on October 31st, I will be a full-time freelance Graphic Designer. I’ve put in my resignation, and I’m trusting God for the wisdom and favor to be able to make a good living and have the freedom of being my own boss.

I have discovered a very cool website, where you can buy homemade everything! It’s very cool, lots of variety, and I think it’s a great idea. Maybe I’ll sell something there in the future… who knows?

etsy.com