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Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 by
Matt Ehresman
What if your congregation could ask Alexa to play your church's sermons? Well, they can. It's relatively simple to set up an Alexa skill to share your sermons.
Tags: Alexa, Amazon Echo, smart devices
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 by
Kevin D. Hendricks
Twitter upped its character limit from 140 to 280 characters. How should your church wield this wordy new wonder? We've got 7 ideas to help you out.
Tags: Twitter
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 by
Joshua Cody
Kevin Finn recently gave churches the challenge to get their sermons online. And we were curious just how many of our intrepid readers were already part of churches who make materials available online. We expected a big number, and we got a pleasant surprise.
83% of you are making sermons available online. Whether you’re a house church, a megachurch or…
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by
Kevin Finn
Each week pastors across the world are creating valuable content. They work hard studying, praying and seeking the wisdom of others. They then polish of this all into a sermon that’s (typically) delivered on Sunday morning. For years churches have been recording these sermons to CDs or tapes for those who are unable to attend the service. More recently though,…
Tags: audio, podcast, sermons
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006 by
Kevin D. Hendricks
The sermon is the bread and butter of church life. We get a new one every week. 52 per year. Start adding up the years your church has been around and that’s hundreds, even thousands of sermons. Multiply that by the number of churches and you’ve just won the content lottery. And you know what they say about content: Content…
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Monday, April 24th, 2006 by
Kevin D. Hendricks
A Pennsylvania church plant hopes to spread the word by ditching sermons in favor of dramas. Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community in Pittsburgh, Penn. is an emergent congregation that targets the unchurched.
“Instead of coming to our church and listening to a sermon, you can be part of the sermon,” says co-pastor Jim Walker. Their dramatically different approach is drawing…
Posted in Evangelism & Outreach | 17 Comments »
Wednesday, September 8th, 2004 by
Kevin D. Hendricks
With the spread of iPods and MP3 players listening to audio is no longer restricted to a music collection. Sermons, speeches and books are actually becoming popular in audio format. Both the Democratic and Republican National Convention speeches are available for free on iTunes (George W. Bush, John Kerry and many more). Telltale Weekly offers free and dirt cheap audio…
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