According to Forbes Magazine, Jeremy Halbreich and American Consolidated Media LLC said Wednesday it has bought the publishing assets of Kimberling City Publishing Co. Inc., including the Columbus Daily Advocate in Columbus, Kan.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
The sale also included two weekly publications, The Baxter Springs News in Baxter Springs, Kan., and the Border Star Shopping Guide of Cherokee County, Kan.
American Consolidated is the owner of the Waxahachie Daily Light and several other papers in the area including the Midlothian Mirror, Ennis Journal, Ellis County Chronicle and the Alvarado Post.
The company was purchased and became a subsidy of Macquarie Media Group of Australia. The acquisitions give American Consolidated 10 daily newspapers and 58 other publications in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
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Quotes of the day
Mark Batterson talked about the Moscow Rules at the 2007 Buzz Conference hosted by his church in Washington, D.C.
Here’s some great quotes from the message:
What Batterson says is the core value of his church:
“Irrelevance is Irreverence. God is not just omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. He’s omni-relevant. He knows 6 billion dialects. He speaks our language. Where we’re failing is in incarnation. We need to incarnate the truth in ways that make sense to our culture.â€
“When we quote the Bible we gain credibility with Christians. When we quote non-biblical sources we gain credibility with non-Christians.”
“All truth is God’s truth.”
“Every ‘ology’ is a branch of theology. Because God made it all.”
“You can preach for two reasons because you have to or because you have to. You can preach because you have to because you’re on the schedule this week and you’re up to bat. You’re in the batters box. Or you can preach because you have to because there is a message that’s burning into you and you are like Paul compelled to preach. His fire showed up in your bones and you need to say something.”
“I want to study less and live more so my sermons are less theoretical and more experientially. I don’t think what NCC needs is a sermon well preached. They need a life well lived. I need to make sure I’m not just talking about things I’m living things. It’s our example that we set. I think the best thing I can do is try to be a great dad. Try to be a good husband. Try to live my life in a way that honors God and then more people will get it because we all know that Christianity is more caught than taught.”
Listen online: http://buzzconference.com/media
Mesquite boy named President
Twelve-year-old Sterling Watson, of Mesquite, Texas was named President of the US for a day thanks to the Make A Wish Foundation.
With the help of a dozen or so government agencies, Sterling, who was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma, appointed members of his family to his cabinet, was greeted by the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division Band with “Hail to the Chief†and presented the division’s soldiers with ceremonial gifts – red pencils printed with “President Sterling Watson.â€
Sterling also gave a speech to the US Postal Service, received a briefing at the Department of Health and Human Services, visited 150 employees at U.S. Customs and Border Protection and held a press conference to name one of the agency’s new canines. He chose the name Yeller.
“It is only in America that a little boy from Mesquite, Texas, can wish of someday being President of the United States and actually have that wish come true,†Sterling said after being inaugurated.
Read the full story from Make A Wish
Winning videos
The 2007 Buzz Conference in Washington DC is over and the winners have been announced.
Check them out online to see what other churches around the country are doing?
Audio and video from the conference is also available.
How about your church? What are you doing with film and media? Are you using videos from other services and media outlets or are you coming up with your own?
Lately we haven’t had much original content at encounter but we’ve found the Christian vs. Christ Follower videos to be a great help in illustrating our latest series.
Praise God for his grace, mercy and protection
Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
Received an update on Kathryn from Matt and her mom late last night…
PRAISE THE LORD AND HALLELUJAH!!!
I hope all of you’ve heard the miraculous way in which the Lord answered our prayers for Kathryn and the Buckner team. Ron and I have been away from our email most of the day and are just now able to send our tremendous thanks to you for your prayers. Please pass it on to others who were also praying.
Please continue to pray for the team, for one-on-one conversations with the kids, and for Kathryn’s arm and wrist that has been hurting since she arrived in Russia. Your prayers are part of the way in which GOD IS WORKING! Please keep it up.
For those who may not have heard, here’s a brief account of the results:
The government officials came out and had a great conversation with one of the Buckner staff members. The official apologized for everything and the caregiver was fired. The Buckner team had a really great day with the kids. Keep praying for this time for the team to present God’s love and salvation to these precious children. Please also keep praying for SVETLANA’s salvation, the caregiver who was fired.
“Come, thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of thy redeeming love.
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for thy courts above!”
Wow. I can’t even read the lyrics of that hymn now without tearing up.
What great words of encouragement and grace and mercy.
Lady Bird Johnson dead at 94
Claudia Alta Taylor “Lady Bird†Johnson, former US First Lady from Texas died today at the age of 94.
She was an alum of the University of Texas and married Lyndon Baines Johnson on November 17, 1934, at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas.
She spent years working towards ending poverty, beautifying Texas and US Highways and served as a great ambassador for the state.
Thoughts and comments:
Capital Annex
Thoughts from various Texas politicians via the WDL
Wikipedia entry