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Avoiding & Addressing Criticism
Poor Phil. I can’t help but feel for his predicament (an anti-semitic church ad), and it made me wonder what can be learned from it (i.e., I feel somewhat guilty ...
The Anti-Anti-Semitic Church Ad that was Anti-Semitic
Despite our title, it’s not often that we rag on specific churches for their marketing efforts. We’ve yet to offer a ‘worst church marketing blunders of the year’ list, but ...
Church Web Site Design Checklist
With Internet Evangelism Day fast approaching (April 29, 2007) you might want to check out the Church Site Design Checklist. It’s an automated 51-question survey that will help you figure ...
Innovative Churches: Leadership & the Next Generation
Part 6 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. How can leaders help create a culture of innovation? Leadership can help create a ...
Come Be Hosed, Healed
This past Sunday, the Los Angeles United House of Prayer held a mass water baptism (registration required) as part of its 80th annual Holy Convocation. They unleashed the power–literally–by turning ...
Multisite Churches Spreading Across D.C.
“We as a congregation made a decision that if we are going to embrace people, we must leave the four walls of the church.” – Rev. Deron Cloud, founder of ...
Church Blogs II Poll
A little more than a year ago we asked about church blogging. Since the book The Blogging Church: Sharing the Story of Your Church Through Blogs by Brian Bailey and ...
Visitors, Beer and Sex–Oh My!
Yet again the links have piled up around me faster than I can blog them, so it’s time to blow the dam and just let you have them. Here we ...
Official NFL Church Super Bowl Parties
Or maybe the solution to the NFL sacking church Super Bowl ™ parties is to get organized. What if church Super Bowl ™ parties were officially sanctioned events? A church ...
NFL Bans Church Super Bowl Parties
Tomorrow is the Super Bowl, in case you didn’t know (I had to look it to be sure, so don’t feel bad), and amid all the stories about commercials and ...
Christians Lie with Data
“You can make up statistics for anything. 14% of all people know that.” Those are some of my favorite words from the philosopher Homer J. Simpson, and they’re painfully true. Christianity ...
Q Conference
Immediately following my time at the National New Church Conference in Orlando this April, I’ll be heading up to Atlanta for the Q Conference. If you haven’t heard, Q is ...
Innovative Churches: Obstacles & Dangers
Part 5 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. Here are more of the Q&As from the Outreach/Tony Morgan questionnaire: What are the ...
Innovative Church Poll
To go along with our Innovative Church series we opted to do a little poll to find out how innovative your church is. The results are not that encouraging. The majority ...
National New Church Conference
In April I will be tag-teaming with the one and only Mark Batterson for a pre-conference session at the National New Church Conference in Orlando, Fla. The pre-conference track is ...
Innovative Churches: Opportunities & Influence
Part 4 in a series on Innovative Churches. Be sure to contribute to the Most Innovative Churches list. Here’s the continuing Q&As from the Outreach/Tony Morgan questionnaire: What’s happening outside the church ...
First Impressions: Presentation vs. Promotion
A friend from church has been sporadically carrying on a conversation with me about first impressions. He knows that I am a big first impressions guy and he positions himself ...