Growing up all over the USA and being involved and committed to numerous churches, I have become increasingly aware of the benefit to having some sort of relationship or at ...
A million dollar advertising blitz may work for the corporate giants, but that’s usually a joke in the church. Rather than trying to spend more, churches should be smarter. Jay ...
Blogging isn’t just a hip new trend for techies and information junkies. Businesses are jumping on the blog bandwagon.
Blog software itself enables a non-technical person to post uniform content ...
If people aren’t reading your church newsletter, maybe it’s because it’s not worth reading. Shoddy writing can sink any communication.
Literary guru Pat Holt offers 10 Mistakes Writers Don’t See, a ...
Apparently chocolate Jesus isn’t so far fetched. The Church of England is launching a new program called “Back to Church Sunday” to entice people who have left the church to ...
“Any religion that believes in evangelism at its core believes in marketing,” notes the Rev. Dan Webster, spokesman for the Episcopal Diocese of Utah.
Wow. Couldn’t have said it better myself. ...
Working with hundreds of churches over the years, I get so frustrated with the “we don’t have any money” excuse so prevalent with today’s pastors and church councils. I understand ...
Churches in Mexico are using high-tech jammers to keep cell phones from ringing in the midst of services. It’s illegal, but no one seems to care.
As interesting as that ...
Speaking of business ventures as church advertising, how about opening a Subway in the house of God?
Seems a bit more commercial than many of us prefer, though it also sounds ...
Some thoughts on the ridiculousness of our efforts in church from the Annie Dillard essay “An Expedition to the Pole,” which can be found in the book Teaching a Stone ...
The Ann Arbor News has a balanced article about the casual trend in church attire. The piece includes both the pragmatic and anti-legalism pro that God cares more about the ...
Isaiah Church has no building, but that’s okay. Rev. Troy Benton plans to build his church by forming a congregation first, and worrying about a building later. It’s a common ...
Stewardship has to be one of the touchiest subjects in the church. Until churches start charging a cover and collecting it at the door, offerings and pledge drives are a ...
A couple interesting tidbits from Will Samson, who just spent two days hanging out with George Barna and Leonard Sweet talking about the future of the church:
“Currently only 65% of ...
Spencer Burke, creator of the TheOoze.com, wrote Making Sense of Church, a book that dives into a lot of the post-modern/emergent conversations about the church.
While the book is more ...