Customer Reviews:
Not for Vista.......2007-08-12
I purchased this product without checking it's compatability to Windows Vista. I learned an exspensive lesson. I am sure the product is good because I had iot before a long time ago. Unfortunately it is doing me no good now.
Great clips!.......2007-03-13
This is very good clipart that I use almost every week in my church school lessons. It would be hard to live without it!
disappointed Christian.......2007-03-09
The Print Shop software pulled up an error and would not load. The versions are old on the other software...very basic clip art and graphics. Sorry I bought...it's sitting in a corner on my desk.
Poor Quality.......2006-01-30
I was very disappointed in this software program. I found it to be very poor quality and not as advertised on the website. My computer operates with Windows XP Professional. This software does not allow me to access many of the applications, because they only work with earlier versions of Windows. I would not recommend this product to anyone and would like to obtain a refund if possible.
BEWARE - NO SUPPORT.......2006-01-13
I agree that this is great software to use in a church office. I used it a great deal at my old job (church secretary). I liked it so much that I ordered it when I started at a new church. I just received it and was really disappointed that it didn't come with a print out of the images. Where I was using it before a book came with it, so that you could find the image and then go right to it, without having to browse through 2 discs to find the perfect image, especially since there is no search engine. I tried to contact Broderbund but since I ordered it at Amazon they will not support it. I finally got through to a human at Broderbund to see if I could at least purchase a book to go with it, I was told that "the item is discontinued and we do not support it". No matter what I asked he just kept repeating that same sentence. I told him that I had just bought it and he just repeated himself. I love the product but hate the attitude. Hopefully when you order this you will never need customer or technical support with it, or expect any books or manuels. The box just contains the discs and a booklet on how to install the Christian Graphics software. There is nothing included about the "PrintShop" or the "Calendar Creator", you are totally on your own with these.
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1001 Humorous Illustrations for Public Speaking: Fresh, Timely, and Compelling Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers, and Speakers
Michael Hodgin
Manufacturer: Zondervan
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Nelson's Complete Book Of Stories, Illustrations & Quotes The Ultimate Contemporary Resource For Speakers
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1001 More Humorous Illustrations for Public Speaking: Fresh, Timely, and Compelling Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers, and Speakers
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2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches
ASIN: 0310473918 |
Book Description
Drawn from a broad array of sources, topics in this compilation range from Ability and Acceptance to Words, Work, and Worship.
Customer Reviews:
Book review.......2007-08-11
Over all this book was worth the money. Wont realy know until I have to prepare the next speach.
I wasted my money.........2001-05-26
I didn't get anything out of this book. Buy it if you have money to waste.
It was very helpful........1998-12-11
The book was very helpful to me. It's a great book filled with useful stories and jokes.
Book Description
Vast array of emblems — selected from Old and New Testaments as well as the medieval and modern church — depict signs that represent the Trinity, Apostles, saints, sacraments, Easter, the Ark, and other elements of Christianity. Ideal for use by illustrators and designers — of interest to anyone fascinated by symbols and their cultural evolution. 456 black-and-white designs.
Customer Reviews:
A Good Set Lacking Color.......2006-12-28
I have not used this set much yet but that is because my current project requires color and this set is all black and white. It is, however, a nice set.
The quality of the images is good. They people who organized them seemed to have some basic knowledge of the traditional iconography. The art comes with a book that has all the images making it easier to find what you are looking for. All in all, it is well planned.
There are gaps and omissions but this is a nice resource, especially for the price.
Useful for the price.......2006-11-10
It doesn't contain the variety that i had hoped for, but for the price, this is a book of good resource.
Book Description
This book offers 100 movie clip references for creative 5-10 minute devotions or to get kids into your Bible lesson! All suggested clip references come complete with video start and stop cues, and comments to "set up" each clip. Each devotion features an easy-to-use, flexible format of quality follow-up questions and quick activities to fit your plans. All clips are rated SW--safe and wholesome. Arranged by Bible story, by Scripture, and topic. Great for use anywhere in children's ministry!
Customer Reviews:
Attention-grabbing devotions for children.......2007-03-27
Children watch movies over and over again, so why not use some of those movies to help them grow in faith! Grab their attention with a short clip of a popular movie. Follow that with the well-written, age-appropriate Devotion questions as a catalyst to life changing conversations about faith in God. Best part is the author chose movies that are most likely in your own home video/dvd collections.
Book Description
Best known for his neo-Gothic designs for the Houses of Parliament, Victorian artist/architect Pugin also produced a wealth of beautiful ecclesiastical motifs that hark back to their medieval roots. This selection of 59 color plates depicts hundreds of images based on medieval designs for crosses, altar cloths, and church vestments.
Average customer rating:
- not what I had hoped
- Clip Art,More,and Even More Clip Art for the Liturgical year
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Clip Art, More, and Even More Clip Art for the Liturgical Year
Clemens Schmidt , and
Placid Stuckenschneider
Manufacturer: Liturgical Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: CD-ROM
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ASIN: 081462426X |
Customer Reviews:
not what I had hoped.......2007-05-10
While some of the clip art is of good quality, it is difficult to find what I want within in. It is very limited.
Clip Art,More,and Even More Clip Art for the Liturgical year.......2002-05-29
I have used the liturgical clip art books from Liturgical Press for more than ten years. They are fabulous, clear, and cover a broad range of seasonal liturgical needs. The art items are presented in a variety of combinations and sizes, so if you don't have a copier that reduces, it helps. These volumes and also those by Placid Stuckenschneider are among th best any where commercially available.
Ken Suetterlin, central Iowa U.M. Pastor
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Creative Clips: Clip Art and Awards for Christian Classrooms
Jeff Carnehl
Manufacturer: Concordia Publishing House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0570053838 |
Book Description
Christian Clipart is a series of three CD-ROMs with beautiful images that can be included in bulletins, newsletters, program booklets, invitations, religious education materials, flyers, posters and any other project for which graphics are needed. The images included are conveniently organized according to themes. All the images are shown in accompanying booklets and include the corresponding file name for easy reference. Images are in TIFF format and are useable on both Macintosh and PC/Windows platforms.
Customer Reviews:
Very disappointed.......2007-04-07
This is the worse clip art that I have ever seen. It looks like a three year old drew the pictures. I was hoping to use them in my Church's bulletin, since I am home with a broken ankle. But I can draw better than these pictures. I am so disappointed. I even paid over night shipping so that I could use them in this week's bulletin. What a waste of money...
Fair but Nor Great.......2006-12-13
This is not a bad clipart collection but neither is it a particularly good one, at least for my purposes.
It is from Paulist Press so it has a definite Roman Catholic flavor to much of it but many of these images are general enough to be used by any Christians. My problem is that they are all black and white. I was looking for some color images. That being said, there is no reason why many of these cannot be found to be useful in documents where color would not be expected such as a bulletin of newsletter.
The images are evocative of the themes they are supposed to indicate so they do facilitate communication. None are stellar but they are usable.
I actually think that this is the most useful of the three volumes. The themes are miracles, saints, sacraments and ordinary time. It is sometimes difficult to come up with a simple image that is evocative of the right thing within these categories.
Book Description
Christian Clipart is a series of three CD-ROMs with beautiful images that can be included in bulletins, newsletters, program booklets, invitations, religious education materials, flyers, posters and any other project for which graphics are needed. The images included are conveniently organized according to themes. All the images are shown in accompanying booklets and include the corresponding file name for easy reference. Images are in TIFF format and are useable on both Macintosh and PC/Windows platforms.
Customer Reviews:
Fair but Nor Great.......2006-12-13
This is not a bad clipart collection but neither is it a particularly good one, at least for my purposes.
It is from Paulist Press so it has a definite Roman Catholic flavor to much of it but many of these images are general enough to be used by any Christians. My problem is that they are all black and white. I was looking for some color images. That being said, there is no reason why many of these cannot be found to be useful in documents where color would not be expected such as a bulletin of newsletter.
The images are evocative of the themes they are supposed to indicate so they do facilitate communication. None are stellar but they are usable.
Know that this collection focuses on images of Christ and on Scriptural passages
Book Description
A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly.
“I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln wrote to Elizabeth Keckly in 1867, and indeed theirs was a close, if tumultuous, relationship. Born into slavery, mulatto Elizabeth Keckly was Mary Lincoln’s dressmaker, confidante, and mainstay during the difficult years that the Lincolns occupied the White House and the early years of Mary’s widowhood. But she was a fascinating woman in her own right, independent and already well-established as the dressmaker to the Washington elite when she was first hired by Mary Lincoln upon her arrival in the nation’s capital. Lizzy had bought her freedom in 1855 and come to Washington determined to make a life for herself as a free black, and she soon had Washington correspondents reporting that “stately carriages stand before her door, whose haughty owners sit before Lizzy docile as lambs while she tells them what to wear.” Mary Lincoln had hired Lizzy in part because she was considered a “high society” seamstress and Mary, an outsider in Washington’s social circles, was desperate for social cachet. With her husband struggling to keep the nation together, Mary turned increasingly to her seamstress for companionship, support, and advice—and over the course of those trying years, Lizzy Keckly became her confidante and closest friend.
With Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly, pioneering historian Jennifer Fleischner allows us to glimpse the intimate dynamics of this unusual friendship for the first time, and traces the pivotal events that enabled these two women—one born to be a mistress, the other to be a slave—to forge such an unlikely bond at a time when relations between blacks and whites were tearing the nation apart. Beginning with their respective childhoods in the slaveholding states of Virginia and Kentucky, their story takes us through the years of tragic Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the early Reconstruction period. An author in her own right, Keckly wrote one of the most detailed biographies of Mary Lincoln ever published, and though it led to a bitter feud between the friends, it is one of the many rich resources that have enhanced Fleischner’s trove of original findings.
A remarkable, riveting work of scholarship that reveals the legacy of slavery and sheds new light on the Lincoln White House, Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly brings to life a mesmerizing, intimate aspect of Civil War history, and underscores the inseparability of black and white in our nation’s heritage.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
Well written, informative and compelling.......2006-02-16
After reading this book I feel as if I know the two ladies, their lives and their times.
Two for the price of one, dragging on, but ending nicely done........2005-12-14
Going back and forth between biographical chapters of the two ladies for a good portion of the book left me tireless and bored. Almost rejoicing when the book finally picked up after what seemed to be an ad infinitum of the two woman's seemingly ordinary lives, nothing really there to surprise from previous knowledge of both a white and black's reality of that particular time period, I in all honestly could have done without the meticulously detailed first half of the book. On the contrary I did find that the many similarities between the two such as same birth year and rather close birthplace, both in the south to be rather ironic in conjunction with their very different social standing and contrasting, perhaps even a bit complimenting personality traits. This is possibly the only helpful information I was able to take from the first half of the book.
Fleischner does appear to know plenty on each individual, but enough's enough, I picked up the book for an interesting read about such an odd friendship between the pair.
Forcing myself to get through these lackluster chapters, the meeting and companionship of the two very different women at long last appeared! Before getting to this point of the book I would have been generous in giving the book two stars, however after their first encounter, the day before Abe Lincoln's Presidential inauguration in 1861 I actually found myself enjoying my time reading it.
Keckly, a mulatto, grew up in a harsh life of slavery, eventually independently able to buy her way out and prosper in the seamstress business. Thus being the reason, lavish and somewhat peculiar Lincoln called upon the former slave for her distinguished dress-making skills. The last chapters did seem rushed, and I was left wanting more details on the actual societal aspects of the South in the nineteenth century. I enjoyed the mentioning of how times were back then, always being captivating to me. The prices, fashions, and entertainment of Civil War times really absorbed my interest, however short-lived those parts were. The association and reference of historical people and events i.e. W.E.B Du Bois, Cassius Clay, Bleeding Kansas allowed me to relate the reading to History class, always bringing unexpected excitement to a learning student.
The brilliantly unlikely friendship between Mrs. Keckly and Mrs. Lincoln did get its justice in Jennifer Fleischner's double biography. If you have patience for dullness, and are willing to stick it out for what turns out to be a great story of two apparently opposite woman who grow together in a historic tale of true friendship, then don't hesitate to pick this book up. Three stars for getting two bios for the price of one, the book might have dragged on, but turning out rather compelling, and nicely done.
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckley.......2005-10-26
I was disappointed in the viewpoint of the author who seemed less interested in the relationship of the two women than in the social problems of a free Black woman who was the confidant of Mary Lincoln. I began reading the book in an attempt to understand both women and the circumstances in which their friendship occurred. The book, however, leans heavily toward Mrs. Keckley & portrays Mrs. Lincoln at her best as a spoiled White woman & at her worst as a lunatic. The final paragraph sums up the author's reasons for writing the book in a complaint that Mary is buried in the Lincoln vault with President Lincoln (where else would she have been put?)& Mrs. Keckley's unclaimed body lies in an unmarked grave..."like those of her mother, slave father and son". The book is not about Mary Lincoln or Mrs. Keckley; it is a social commentary.
Sometimes interesting, but often puts me to sleep.......2005-09-10
The characters in this book and their stories are interesting at times, but the author takes far too much time imparting their stories. I am reading this book for a church cirle book review, and I am having trouble reading it. If I want a nap that day, all I need to do is pick up this book and read it a while!
Interesting, but needs more detail! .......2004-08-24
I did enjoy reading "Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave." It rates a 3 out of 5 stars for me because of the lack of depth, particularly in the latter part of the book.
Like most people, all I had really heard about Mary Lincoln was that she had emotional issues and ended up being committed by her own son. This is true, and the book does a good job of relating the childhood events that warped the young Mary Todd.
Lizzy Keckly, the slave who buys her freedom and becomes Washington DC's leading "modiste", is a fascinating personage who well deserves the attention the book gives her life. I found the description of Lizzy's life in slavery to be very powerful. In particular, the passage where her master hires someone to "break her" made my stomach turn and the barbarity of slavery struck home anew.
The beginning of the book starts out strong. The chapters alternate between the lives of the two ladies. After Mary marries Lincoln, however, I feel the book loses steam. I craved more description not only of their lives but of the historic events that surrounded them. Maybe my perception of this book was hurt by having just finished David McCullough's masterful "John Adams", which is lavish in detail. Maybe there just isn't enough evidence out there about Mary and Lizzy's lives after they hit middle age. (I'm willing to buy that about Lizzy, but about Mary? It seems unlikely.) At any rate, by the time you hit the last few chapters, it seems as if the author is hurrying to finish up and I think it ends abruptly.
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