Archive for January 2008

peer-review Article
January 18, 2008

Church Marketing Lab: Waffle Thermals to Revolutions

The Church Marketing Lab has been bustling with activity as people get ready for everything from Valentine’s Day to Easter. Here’s a taste of what we’ve seen this week: Here’s a ...

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reviews Article
January 17, 2008

Shopping For God: The Spiritual Marketplace

This is part two in a series from the book by James B. Twitchell titled Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From In Your Heart To In Your Face. Twitchell starts ...

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technology Article
January 17, 2008

Overnight Web Site Challenge

A Minnesota tech company is hosting the F1 Overnight Web Site Challenge, where teams of geeks will create fully functional web sites for Minnesota nonprofits in only 24 hours. Public ...

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reviews Article
January 16, 2008

Shopping for God: The Book

Over the Christmas break I took a couple of days and read James B. Twitchell’s latest book, Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From In Your Heart To In Your ...

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link-round-up Article
January 16, 2008

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007

We can’t all be super techies. Not everyone has an intimate understanding of every new technology trend or can keep pace with all the Twittering, Digging or StumbleUponing. But never ...

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poll-results Article
January 16, 2008

Presidential Marketing Poll Results

If you’ve kept up with the presidential race at all, you’ve been bombarded with tricky ploys, clever slogans, crazy ads and a thousand other marketing moves. So we wanted to ...

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philosophy Article
January 15, 2008

Mission, Vision, People

I blogged an entry recently on Personality‘s site about knowing the mission, doing the vision and treating people really well. It’s an approach I learned a few years ago from Jared ...

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technology Article
January 14, 2008

Four Pastoral Blogging Taboos and How To Fix Them

We see from the Blogging Pastor Poll Results that were posted back in November that 72% of pastors aren’t blogging successfully. I can’t imagine that the percentage has changed over ...

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peer-review Article
January 11, 2008

Church Marketing Lab: Financial Freedom to New T-Shirts

We thought you might be interested to know what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab over the past week and a half, so here’s a little taste for ...

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interviews Article
January 11, 2008

Church Marketing in the UK

I came across Drew McCarty in the Church Marketing Lab, and he was looking for some advice for a church plant (Drew’s note: new web site coming soon) that was ...

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the-christian-walk Article
January 10, 2008

A Reader’s Resolution

Happy New Year friends! I am writing to share my 2008 resolution… I pray that 2008 brings with it the day that we no longer debate the need for church ...

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philosophy Article
January 9, 2008

Pray for Competition

As we pursue the unique calling that God has for each one of us individually and collectively, both as ministers and as ministries, we are foolish if we care not ...

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poll-results Article
January 8, 2008

Doing Design Poll Results

Last week, we wanted to know how your church goes about doing its design. Full time? Part time? No time? Here’s how you broke it down: 34% of you can’t afford ...

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philosophy Article
January 8, 2008

You Get What You Preach For

When you preach salvation, people come to know Jesus.When you preach about loving Jesus, people become better lovers of Jesus.When you preach prosperity, people want to be prosperous.When you preach ...

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news-updates Article
January 7, 2008

Church Marketing New Year’s Resolution

New Year’s resolutions never work. Let’s face it, you’ll probably be too busy to get organized. And somehow chocolate will be the downfall of your diet. So maybe you could ...

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