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Archive for the ‘Think Ahead’ Category
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 ...
DaVinci Code Marketing
The DaVinci Code hits theaters May 19 and the movie marketing machine is rolling full steam ahead. Including an effort to rope in Christians and keep them from crashing the ...
10 Things You Should Know About People
Kem Meyer, a sometimes guest blogger here and communications director at Granger Community Church in South Bend, Ind., recently shared a list of lessons she’d learned about how to better ...
Lessons from a German Movie Theater
This past Christmas my wife and I spent nearly two weeks in Germany, traveling the country visiting friends, seeing the sights, and getting up close and personal with events from ...
Simply Strategic Podcast
I like themes so this week is going to be Simply Strategic week. Or at least Simply Strategic couple of days. Pretty strategic, huh? Yesterday we reviewed the book Simply Strategic ...
Marketing Mistakes Churches Should Avoid
We’ve been sitting on this one for a couple months, but content can age like a fine wine, right? Anyway, check out Marketing Mistakes Churches Should Avoid from Pastors.com: Thinking marketing ...
Closed for Christmas
There’s a little media frenzy today over the fact that several mega-churches are choosing to close their doors on Christmas day. You can take your pick of sources over at ...
Fear, Threats, and Paranoid Opportunity
The latest issue of Business 2.0 extracts “golden rules” from business big shots. One such example is from Andy Grove, former chairman and CEO for Intel. He quipped that only ...
More Lessons for the Church from U2
I admit it: I’m a U2 freak (I have an entire category for U2 on my personal blog). Which means I like to write about the world’s biggest rock band. ...
The Church That I See
Brian Houston started a church in 1983 and one day sat down and imagined the church he’d love to pastor. That church is Hillsong, the largest independent church in Australia: Before ...
It Takes People to Make People
In business, most are familiar with the adage that it takes money to make money. If I’m going to build a million widgets and sell them for a profit, then ...
Does Your Church Dream?
Irving Bible Church in Irving, Texas has a dream: We dream of a church where people are free to attempt great things for God; where people have nothing to prove and ...
Creative Tension
Ed Young of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas writes about creative tension for Leadership Journal. He focuses on three areas: 1) Exellence vs. Expense “In today’s technology-crazed world, it’s tempting to keep ...
Valentine’s Day, Church Marketing Style
There’s a neat article by Jim Trippon over at the PRWeb on Valentine’s Day Tips: “Does Saying ‘I Love You’ Mean Maxing Out Your Credit Cards?” He’s got some truly ...
Carry-Out Christianity?
There’s a nice article on the PRWeb Newswire about a trend in casual sit-down restaurants (Chili’s, Outback Steakhouse, TGIFriday’s, etc.) to offer carry-out service that’s a more complete customer experience, ...
