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Church Thieves Poll Results

For hopefully the last time we’re visiting the different reactions to church thieves. The question is simple, “Would you forgive and welcome like Kinetic Church did? Or would you let ...

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Churches Create Gas Company

Some churches in Germany have gas. And they’re looking to compete with local companies to help the community deal with sky-high energy prices. Here’s what the chairman of the society ...

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Job Lab and Freelance Lab Roundup

We’ve seen tons of new jobs and projects in the Job Lab and Freelance Lab since last time we updated you. So if you’re in the job market, even though ...

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Factors That Improve Online Experience

Looking for a church web site overhaul? Or do you know a pastor who needs to be looking for a site overhaul? IDEA has released a study titled Factors That ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Non-Existent to Top 90

Church Marketing Lab stories really get me fired up. At its best, it’s a truly incredible tool to help churches communicate with excellence. Take the story of Park Community Church. It ...

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MinistryCOM 2008 in Oklahoma City

For the past several months I’ve been looking forward to being at MinistryCOM in Oklahoma City on September 18-19. With less than three weeks to go, the anticipation continues to ...

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Falling for God

All right, all right. I’m sorry for the lame title pun. Westchester Church decided to do something crazy–go skydiving. This church had a message to communicate: We are not boring; ...

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Bad Marketing Poll Results

We’ve seen some pretty crappy church marketing lately (not to say we haven’t seen some great ideas as well). But which move was the worst of the worst of the ...

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Church Marketing Lab: Group Branding, Newsletters & More

It’s been awhile since we’ve had a standard Church Marketing Lab update, so we thought we would let you in on a little bit of what’s been going on in ...

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More Identity Struggles

Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the Echo conference in Dallas, Texas, with a few hundred church media artists. I presented a spoken version of my “Bastards ...

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Internet Ministry Conference – Register Soon!

Ever get frustrated that you’re only metafriends with us at Church Marketing Sucks? The Internet Ministry Conference is the perfect place to fix that. If you hadn’t heard, Brad Abare ...

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Pooling Talents to Multiply Talents

Many of you are familiar with the parable of the talents. Essentially God entrusts us with things, and we diligently care for and use those things. Maybe it’s a knack ...

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Atheists Marketing Billboard

We’ve talked about billboards a lot. No, really. A lot. But here’s a little something different. Coming to you courtesy of DJ Chuang’s Twitter, here’s sort of the opposite of a ...

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Future of the Church Poll Results

The future of the church. It’s a huge topic, and it’s one we need to be ready for. But what is that future? Well, 37% of you think multi-site churches are ...

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Name a Church Contest

Here’s a new and innovative way of going about naming your church — ask your whole country to help. And give them a Wii if they’re right. [Insert name here] church ...

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