Joshua Cody

Josh Cody served as our associate editor for several years before moving on to bigger things. Like Texas. These days he lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, and you can find him online or on Twitter when he's not wrestling code.

Joshua Cody's Posts:

peer-review Article
September 17, 2007

Church Marketing Lab: Sorry Church Site, God is Green and More

This week in the Church Marketing Lab, the discussion board was crazy with a couple long threads, and the photo pool saw some great new submissions. Now that we’ve given ...

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church-business Article
September 12, 2007

Franchising Church

We’re living in modern times. Everything is outsourced, and everything is franchised. Why should church be any different? Todd Rhoades at Monday Morning Insight discusses this model of church planting ...

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poll-results Article
September 11, 2007

RSS Church Poll Results

Last week, we asked you if your church was using an RSS feed for their web site. We’ve harped on RSS for your church before, and we were hoping that ...

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web-sites Article
September 10, 2007

Free Site Giveaway

Calling all church plants, upstarts and new ministries. We wanted to let you know that HotPress Web a Denver, Colo. based web marketing company is donating a custom web site ...

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first-impressions-beyond Article
September 5, 2007

Skipping Summer Sundays?

An interesting story came to me via Slice of Laodicea about how one church handles their summer services. For June, July and August, the San Francisco Journey moved to a once-monthly ...

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Extreme Makeover Poll Results

Last week, we asked you which typical church function needs an extreme makeover. We gave you nine choices and let you vote, and you made it a close race. Here’s ...

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peer-review Article
August 31, 2007

Church Marketing Lab: Painted Cars, the 80s and More

This week in the Church Marketing Lab, we had another great week of logos, series designs, fliers and more. Below, you’ll see something that I think might have been a ...

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examples Article
August 29, 2007

My Naked Pastor

You can certainly file this one under “Is this for real?” I’ll copy from the site, MyNakedPastor.com, here. The lead pastor, Troy Gramling, at Flamingo Road Church is getting naked! ...

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Church Football Poll Results

Only one day until college football kicks off. A week after that comes the NFL. Last week, we asked if your church would use the inherent marketing power of pigskin. ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
August 27, 2007

The Free Gift of God is … iPhones and Disneyland Trips?

The free gift of God is an iPhone and a trip to Disneyland. OK, so that’s not the whole story. We’ve talked here before about churches partnering with local business. Perhaps it ...

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examples Article
August 24, 2007

Church Marketing: What Not to Do

I’ve been collecting a few links over the past few weeks as church stories caught my attention, and in case anyone wasn’t quite sure, here are three ways not to ...

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peer-review Article

Church Marketing Lab:

It’s about time to let you guys know what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab. Everyone’s starting to show us their graphics for their fall kickoffs, and the ...

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poll-results Article
August 21, 2007

Church Lists Poll Results

Last week we asked what you thought of recent lists like the top 20 church logos and the 25 most innovative churches. From what we’ve seen, there are people who ...

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evangelism-outreach Article
August 20, 2007

Batterson on Marketing

Mark Batterson, a CMS favorite and annual interviewee, had a little to say about marketing last week in his Evotional blog. He said a few things I wanted to point ...

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peer-review Article
August 17, 2007

Church Marketing Lab: T-Shirts, Fashion Shows and More

Here we are with your weekly roundup of what’s been going on in the Church Marketing Lab. Check out some of the work we’ve seen this week, and then head ...

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