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Everyone is talking about relevance lately, and when it comes to the church, it’s a conversation we need to have.
The world is changing faster than it ever has before, and without sacrificing the Truth of the Gospel, the church needs to change with it. The good news is that there are things pastors and churches can do to make sure …
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Recently Tim Peters published a post entitled ’5 Things Every Church Should Communicate Every Sunday’. He received tons of positive comments and hundreds of Tweets and Facebook Likes. He decided to produce an extended version of the post in a eBook format, and he added two additional ‘things’ every church should communicate …
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BELLINGHAM, WA – ORA NET LLC announces its new initiative introducing a disruptive technology to promote the oldest form of recognized religious expression in the Christian and Jewish faiths--prayer. The ORA system creates a personal mobile experience for the individual and an enterprise-quality community management platform for any …
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Check out this collection of 25 creative church websites compiled by Vandelay Design. Make notes about commonalities and features you see as important to the people who might find or use your website. Then go make good changes!
Check Out All 25 In the Gallery …
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For many people in your community, Easter is the only day of the year they’ll show up at church. It’s a great opportunity to reach out to those who don’t think about church the other 364 days of the year.
You’ll want to reach out to your visitors and thank them for coming. Depending upon the size and culture of your church, you …
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By Mark Coppenger
It's fun to study surnames, or last names, as distinguished from Christian names, or first names. Back in history, when things got crowded, they had to add second names to sort out all the people named "John" or "James" or "Mary" or "Ruth." So they turned to four contextual features -- location (as in Lois "Hill"); …
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Hear from players during Super Bowl 47 Media Day - how they use the Bible App and what connecting with God's Word means to them.
Special thanks to 1615.tv.
YouVersion is a free Bible for your phone and computer. The Bible App has been installed on over 78 million mobile devices around the world.
When the Bible is always nearby, …
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Let’s go back a few years to when you first started noticing the potential social media could have (circa 2006) . . . back to the days when the idea of creating a community of friends in a digital world excited you. Remember the days you actually had to ask if a person was on Facebook?
Social media not only connected us with old high …
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Communication can make or break an organization. Effective communication can help organizations solve problems and accomplish their goals. Poor communication can cripple organizations, creating even more problems and preventing them from focusing on the goals they’ve set.
There are several factors that make communicating difficult. …
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Beth Hayden and Rafal Tomal, with Copyblogger, have put together an insightful infographic detailing the history of social media. They rightly say that it goes all the way back to the first email (since email is social) and they also rightly conclude that "at some point very soon, we will all stop talking about 'social media' and put the …
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