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Church Plant Poll
Last week we asked about church plants and where they should spend their money. We got quite a few responses, especially for a poll that appeared over the holidays, but ...
CMS on Creative Synergy Podcast
If we haven’t mentioned the new Creative Synergy Podcast before, it’s worth checking out. Hosted by Greg Atkinson and Anthony Coppedge, they cover all kinds of creative issues for the ...
CMS T-Shirts FAQs
When we announced the new CMS T-shirts late last week, the e-mails started coming in about questions you never really know people have until they ask. So below are the ...
Purpose Driven, Branding, Telegrams and Rejected Ads
ABC dumps Assemblies of God ad – It’s a rehashing of the rejected UCC commercials, but getting much less coverage. Churches using online promotion – “We’re talking about the evolution of ...
More Pastors on MySpace
Churches using the latest technological tool (gasp!) gets more attention with a feature from San Antonio on pastors using MySpace. The piece includes some good examples of pastors making use ...
CMS T-Shirts Now Available in Small
We’ve responded to your demands and added small sizes to the Church Marketing Sucks store. Now you can support CMS, look ridiculously good and not drown in your T-shirt. Remember that ...
Church Loses Domain to a Porn Site
Here’s some bad news for your marketing efforts: You lost your domain and a porn site snatched it up. Too bad you just handed out fliers at the local Apple ...
Stewardship Poll
Last week we asked about stewardship, the dreaded sermon series topic of choice in October. 52% have a holistic approach and cover finances in general. 22% apparently need to talk ...
The T-shirts Have Arrived
Church Marketing Sucks T-shirts are now available. We’ve been hinting, dreaming and hoping, and now we finally have some Church Marketing Sucks swag. Visit the new Church Marketing Sucks Store and ...
Using Whipped Cream and Gay Marriage to Start Conversations
With membership declining as much as 20% in the last decade, the United Church of Canada needs to try something drastic. So they’ve launched a $9.3 million ad campaign. The ...
Operation Christmas Child Bans Christmas to Spread the Message
It’s collection week for Operation Christmas Child, the high profile project of Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse, and while shoeboxes are being packed for kids across the world, they’re also ...
Web Stats Poll
Last week we polled to see how many web stat addicts we had in the house, and thankfully only 17% of you were true addicts. Another 17% check their numbers ...
YouTube, Multi-Site and Pews
Building Rockin’ Church Web Sites – Church Communications Pro Cory Miller just keeps the series coming. Projection Blues – Jim Walton at Church Tech Matters shares some simple tips for improving ...
Ted Haggard and Church Marketing
It seems painfully ironic to me that the same week I posted about Christians taking each other down, we have a high profile example of Christians taking themselves down in ...
The Money-Back Guaranteed Tithe
Here’s something different. LifeChurch.tv, the church with locations in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and online is offering a three-month tithing challenge. Give for three months. If God doesn’t deliver on his ...
Election Day Poll
Last week we asked about how churches should deal with politics at election time. A resounding 62% said churches should just remind their congregations to vote. 17% said politics and ...
Look Mom, I’m Chasing Lions
I just finished reading one of the most refreshing books I’ve read in awhile. It was also one of the easiest books I’ve read lately. These two reasons alone should ...