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More Downloadable Church Resources
LifeChurch.tv isn’t the only church giving away their sermon series resources–The Vine, the young adult service of Southeast Christian church in Louisville, Ky., has also made their sermon series resources ...
What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church
Web 2.0 is the latest rage. It’s on the cover of Newsweek and everyone is speculating if it’s the revenge of the dot com boom. This is the beginning of ...
LifeChurch.tv Downloadable Resources
LifeChurch.tv, a multi-location church with sites in Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona, is making their sermon series resources available to other churches for free. You can download video, layered graphics files ...
No One Reads Your Church Brochure
Marketing guru Seth Godin recently talked about brochures and said the one thing no marketer wants to hear: Nobody reads brochures. I didn’t say it wasn’t important. I just said it ...
Church Advertising is a Waste of Time
Here’s a confession: I’m not a fan of big churches, and by “big churches” I mean weekly attendance over 20. I think that churches should meet in homes and that ...
Public Relations Poll
Last week’s poll asked about church press releases and offers some interesting numbers. Half of churches haven’t even tried press releases, but 31% have tried them and scored some free ...
Church Marketing Lab Round Up #1
Yesterday we announced the new Church Marketing Lab, a place where you can help churches improve their communications. So let’s do it. Here’s a round up of church marketing samples ...
Is Leadership Spiritual?
Christianity Today has an interesting debate between North Point Community Church’s Andy Stanley and the author of Good to Great, Jim Collins. Well, it’s not so much a debate. Both ...
The Church Marketing Lab
It’s time for better church marketing. Want to help? Step into the lab and help churches improve their marketing and communications by taking part in our new Flickr group, the Church ...
Writing for Busy People
After reading the Church Marketing Sucks guidelines for guest blogging, I came across this post from lead Firefox engineer, Ben Goodger. Ben writes: “It’s great when people make contributions ...
Churches that Don’t Grow
Great post by Mark Wilson at Revitalize Your Church: Percentage of McDonald’s franchises that did not sell a hamburger last year: 0% Percentage of Ace Hardware stores that did not sell a ...
Church Publicity that Doesn’t Work
This week’s poll is asking about press releases, and while we’ve recently covered how to do press releases, we haven’t talked about how not to do press releases. Jamey Tucker ...
The UCC Ejector Pew Commercial
The United Church of Christ, known for their headline grabbing commercial that was rejected by the networks, is back with a new ejector pew commercial. This time around a traditional ...
Want to Write For Us?
Join our team and become a guest blogger. We’re looking for people who can contribute to the conversation, beyond comments to the actual entries we comment about. We’ve made it ...
Monster Truck Poll
Last month we posted about a monster truck church ad and last week we asked for your thoughts on it. 75% appreciated the ad, with 22% noting the potential to ...
Church Members Beat Burglar
You don’t mess with the Church of the Nazarene in West Palm Beach, Fla. Church members were fed up after a string of burglaries, so they hid out in the ...
Why We Do This
I always love those reminders from God that help me get perspective on why in the world I’m busy about his business in the first place. Today’s reminder came from ...