Category: General
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Church Money Saving Ideas – eNewsletters
I am adding a category to our blog for Church Money Saving Ideas. We have visited and worked with several churches and want to use this as a platform to provide resources and inspiration to find ways for your church to minister effectively, while being good stewards of the resources available. Our first idea is…
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Are you Friends with God on Facebook or do you Follow Him on Twitter?
That question hit me this morning. Not that I am trying to reduce God to a facebook friend or twitter feed, but rather, do I seek God with the same veracity that I check Facebook and Twitter? I thought about it this morning. My general routine is to get up, head to the restroom, where…
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How Do We Avoid Alienating Un-Believers?
I was at a banquet last night where several pastors were there to pray for the evening. One of the pastors gave the invocation for the meal and blessed the evening. As he got up to pray, before he began, he took a minute to share the Gospel. However, his sharing of the Gospel was…
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churches and ‘the cloud’
I recently read this post by Ed Stetzer about churches taking advantage of recent updates to technology. How is your church taking advantage of what is available today? http://www.edstetzer.com/2011/03/churches-and-the-cloud.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Edstetzercom+(EdStetzer.com) What steps is your church taking to utilize technology to make your ministries more effective? Do you still have one computer in the secretary’s office that…
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Eyes Forward – Ministry Lusting Day 4
By Stephen Boster As a youth in Augusta, Georgia, a summer staple involved a trip to a Georgian or South Carolinian beach. Imagine pubescence at its finest as young man. As we parked the bus and began walking over the sand hill to the beach and open waves, I distinctly remember the youth pastor saying,…
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Ministry Pornography???
In the previous blog entry, I made mention of the danger of Ministry Pornography, defined as lusting after other ministries and taking my eyes of the context of where God has me serving. For the past eight years, I have been serving at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church in the Kansas City, MO area. I first…
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M11 Conference
We just got back from the M11 conference for the Nazarene church. We really enjoyed our time there and made some great connections with churches and leaders. Really looking forward to what God has in store from those relationships formed.
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Churches have websites but many aren’t utilizing them, LifeWay survey finds By David Roach
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) | Though most churches have a website, there is a divide between congregations that use their sites only for one-way communication and those that maximize their online presence with interactive technology. That is the finding of a new LifeWay Research study sponsored by Axletree Media, one of LifeWay’s partners in its Digital…
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The Brick – Is God Getting Your Attention
Got this in an email today and it was too good to pass up. THE BRICK A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar.. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.…
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Our New Offices
We are finally getting moved into our new offices. It has been quite a process, but things are finally starting to look completed. We’ll update more photos soon but here is a quick teaser photo.