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Kevin D. Hendricks's Posts:
Primal: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity by Mark Batterson
The premise of Washington, D.C., pastor Mark Batterson’s latest book is the greatest commandment found in Mark 12:30, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all ...
What Do You Do When Your Church Is Attacked in the Media?
There’s nothing quite like sweeps week investigative journalism from the local TV news for over-the-top drama, tenuous facts and hit job reporting–especially when the focus of those reports is your ...
How Does Your Church Respond to Disaster?
In the face of tragedy the church is rising up. It’s amazing to see so many examples of the church being, well, the church. I’d link to them, but let’s ...
New CFCC Leadership
A few weeks back we hinted at a coming official announcement about the board of directors for the Center for Church Communication (our nonprofit parent). That announcement is here. It’s ...
Why Can’t Christians Be Original?
Encouraging the church not to be a copycat is a popular topic around here. The subject landed a spot in our top 10 posts of 2009 and was your pick ...
The Top 10 Posts of 2009
In our look back at 2009 we’ve covered the most hotly debated posts, the top CFCC news, the best tweets and we’re asking you for the best advice of 2009 ...
Best @cmsucks Tweets of 2009
We started the official Church Marketing Sucks Twitter feed earlier this year and we’ve been having a lot of fun with it. And since ‘best of the year’ lists are ...
Top CFCC News of 2009
We’ve had a good year here at Church Marketing Sucks, along with our nonprofit parent the Center for Church Communication (CFCC). It’s a bit self-indulgent, but as we look back ...
Most Hotly Debated Posts of 2009
With 2009 quickly coming to a close and everyone releasing their end-of-the-year and end-of-the-decade lists we thought we’d play along. So here is the first of several ‘top of 2009’ ...
Called to Consistency & Living in Brokenness
From the beginning one of the communications issues we’ve continually harped on is that some of the very worst marketing for churches is Christians themselves. So often we’re a poor ...
What Matters Now: Free eBook
Marketing guru Seth Godin offers yet another free ebook, What Matters Now. But it’s not all Seth. It features 70 other smart folks giving quick, 200-word riffs answering the question ...
Church Size and Spiritual Belief
Church size matters. Well, not really, but it can have an interesting affect on the spiritual beliefs of a congregation. Despite the persistent perception that mega-churches somehow water down the ...
Church Marketing Gurus
Recently we mentioned that our own Brad Abare and CFCC board member Phil Cooke were appearing on a livestream from Conversant Life. You can now watch the archived video online: Check ...
How Pastors Should Deal with Reporters
Larry Kroon is pastor of Wasilla Bible Church in Wasilla, Alaska. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it’s the home church of former Alaskan governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. ...
Live Interview with Church Marketing Gurus
Tune in tomorrow, Nov. 19 at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT), as Conversant Life does a live interview with Phil Cooke and Brad Abare. They’ll be talking church marketing ...
