Archive for the ‘Off the Wall’ Category

8 Ways to Stop Your Pastor’s April Fool’s on Easter Sunday Jokes
March 12, 2018

8 Ways to Stop Your Pastor’s April Fool’s on Easter Sunday Jokes

With Easter Sunday and April Fools occurring the same day, church communicators need to be prepared for an onslaught of poorly planned pastor puns.

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Loving & Laughing With the Church Curmudgeon
December 6, 2017

Loving & Laughing With the Church Curmudgeon

The funny tweets of the Church Curmudgeon are now available in book form. Read our Q&A, give it as a gift, and members can grab a free excerpt.

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Bulletin Bingo
May 10, 2017

Bulletin Bingo

Download our handy bulletin bingo sheet, and see if your church's bulletin faux pas can score you a bingo! No cash prize, but do we offer helpful resources.

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Stephen Colbert on Extreme Measures for Boosting Church Attendance
April 22, 2014

Stephen Colbert on Extreme Measures for Boosting Church Attendance

The day after Easter, Stephen Colbert explored church marketing, specifically looking at mixed martial arts as outreach.

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Friday Flogging: Christmas Lights Gone Wrong
December 6, 2013

Friday Flogging: Christmas Lights Gone Wrong

A Christmas light display featuring the flogging of Jesus? You can't make that up. Plus new U2, Pope Francis, reality TV, wise words from Jon Acuff and Instagram video tips.

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off-the-wall Article
August 13, 2013

Weekly Church Attenders Have the Best Sex

Married people, those who attended church weekly and people who had the fewest sexual partners had the best sex, according to the Family Research Council.

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Church Marketing Scares
October 31, 2012

Church Marketing Scares

A Halloween round up of some of the scariest church marketing you've ever seen, including Star Wars, church signs and more.

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off-the-wall Article
September 4, 2009

Communicating Hate Sucks

Steven Anderson, pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., recently preached a sermon titled, “Why I Hate Barack Obama.” Whether you’re for or against President Barack Obama isn’t ...

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off-the-wall Article
August 11, 2009

How Bad Is Your Children’s Ministry?

For a church in Utah it was apparently bad enough to prompt a 7-year-old to steal the family car and drive himself home. The boy told his father he didn’t ...

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off-the-wall Article
June 9, 2009

Bring Your Gun to Church Day

Pastor Ken Pagano of New Bethel Church in Louisville, Ky., is encouraging members to bring their handguns to church for an “Open Carry Celebration” Sunday. The event will include patriotic ...

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off-the-wall Article
June 3, 2009

Lessons from Stale Lake

This video created by Eagle Brook Church in Minnesota watches like a laundry list of church communication screw-ups. The video, entitled A Visit to Stale Lake, positions itself to poke fun ...

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off-the-wall Article
April 23, 2009

Is Your Church Cooking Guinea Pigs?

You read the post title and thought I had a real home run metaphor for you, a lá Killing Cockroaches or Chasing Lions. Well, consider yourself disappointed. You might not ...

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off-the-wall Article
November 7, 2008

What if the Church Marketed Like Starbucks?

This has been floating around on various blogs, but it’s poignant enough that you need to see it or see it again. And there’s no more appropriate place than a ...

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off-the-wall Article
October 23, 2008

The Church Logo Scorecard

Jon Acuff at Stuff Christians Like has posted his guide to creating the holiest church logo possible. It’s very funny, as usual from him, and it’s particularly pertinent to church ...

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off-the-wall Article
September 25, 2008

Your Church Smells

Endorphin branding. Does your church do it? Maybe I should tell you what it is first. Per Newsweek (reporting a P.R. e-mail), endorphin branding is “the use of scent as a ...

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