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- 03/11/09
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11 Reasons to Celebrate in March
...because sometimes you just need to celebrate something while waiting for the warm weather to arrive.
Amazing Grace
I don't know anything about this group (except that I've heard Simon Cowell's name attached to them), but they sing quite a nice version of "Amazing Grace" in this video.
Fair Comment
An article at the Economist looks at the importance of reviews in online sales. I found this interesting: "His company's research shows that visitors are more reluctant to buy until a product attracts a reasonable number of reviews and picks up momentum." People often refuse to buy a product until it has a certain number of reviews; this somehow gives that product a kind of authenticity.
Deal of the Day: Calvin's Commentaries
Solid Ground Books is offering the 500th Anniversary Calvin's Commentaries Set with Matching Set of Calvin's Institutes for just $119.95.
...because sometimes you just need to celebrate something while waiting for the warm weather to arrive.
Amazing Grace
I don't know anything about this group (except that I've heard Simon Cowell's name attached to them), but they sing quite a nice version of "Amazing Grace" in this video.
Fair Comment
An article at the Economist looks at the importance of reviews in online sales. I found this interesting: "His company's research shows that visitors are more reluctant to buy until a product attracts a reasonable number of reviews and picks up momentum." People often refuse to buy a product until it has a certain number of reviews; this somehow gives that product a kind of authenticity.
Deal of the Day: Calvin's Commentaries
Solid Ground Books is offering the 500th Anniversary Calvin's Commentaries Set with Matching Set of Calvin's Institutes for just $119.95.
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Comments (10)
the Amazing Grace video...awesome...the piper...the piper...I trust there will be pipers in heaven!
the Amazing Grace video...awesome...the piper...the piper...I trust there will be pipers in heaven!
Amen, Pete. That was a great rendition of a great song--also it reminded me of the movie Amazing Grace.
$120 for the Calvin set?! Good grief. Oh, let that deal hold until next month...
T
Outstanding rendition of Amazing Grace until you get to the last verse. It sounds like they sang "When we've been here ten thousand years...Where is "here"? It should be "there" in the presence of God.
Was the Amazing Grace video done at the Colosseum? If so, I had a quick thought.
Isn't it incredible that this song is being sung where Christians were martyred a little less than 2000 years ago? To think, we probably take such an event for granted, yet at the time singing such a song in such a place would have been unthinkable.
Cowell assembled Il Divo, purposefully choosing 4 operatic voices from different countries. They do a mix of well-known opera and operatic pieces with pretty cool operatic covers of decidedly non-operatic songs.
Gets to be a bit much for me after a while, but my mom loves their music.
And Paul, an awesome thought. Though just the grace itself is pretty doggone unthinkable, regardless of where the song is sung.
Thom, if that deal doesn't hold long enough, CBD has the commentaries at a similarly loooooooooooow price every now and then, too.
Wonderful video - actually fillmed in the Colosseum in Pula, Croatia (one of the finest Roman colosseums in the world)
Jim (#5): Yeah, I caught that also. " When we've been here ten thousand years..." Is this a new age doctrine, or are they just faithfully reading Randy Alcorn's book Heaven where he teaches more about "new earth" than a Heaven that's there?