Ready for the most important insight about moving to online church services? It’s not simply live streaming a church service.
I like how Benjamin Windle, founder and pastor of Lifeplace Church in Australia, puts it: “Adding a live stream and thinking that’s the solution is like a university adding a camera into a lecture room and calling it ‘online campus.’ It’s not the full expression of what a campus is; it’s just a camera feed.”1 (more…)
No church leader wants to admit it, but for many of us it’s true: we still don’t have a sustainable habit for personal Bible study and prayer. Here are five ways forward—true for anyone, church leader or not. [Read more…]
Good Friday commemorates the day Jesus taught us how to die.
A caterpillar folds into a cocoon, dies, bursts forth as a butterfly. A seed falls to the ground, gets eaten by the soil, shoots up. A tree sheds its leaves, sprouts buds, dazzles the world with newborn flowers. [Read more…]
Since Christmas is a key time for church visitors, it’s a good idea to refresh your church website—not a massive overhaul, just a light dusting.
Here’s a checklist you can tackle in just 30 minutes to encourage more people to visit your church. [Read more…]
Don’t be a Moses.
“Don’t be a Moses?” you think. “But Moses was an incredible leader!”
Yeah, an incredible leader who almost burned out.
Until Jethro stepped in. [Read more…]
Raise your hand if you’ve been here before:
You’re about to transition to a new verse or point in your sermon, when all of a sudden you can’t remember what’s next. Or you allude to the next slide in the presentation, only to see that you were wrong about the next slide. Now you’re busy backtracking.
These are the blunders a confidence monitor can save you from.
A few weeks ago Faithlife hosted BibleTech, a two-day conference on the intersection of technology and Scripture in the Christian life.
As a cohost, I had the privilege of sitting in on at least half the talks. Topics ranged from the future of AI in Bible study to the enduring value of paper Bibles, and overall attendees were warm toward technology.
And yet there was an uneasiness in the air about it, too—fears about what technology might change, nostalgia for what’s already been lost, and concerns about whether the church will adapt technology responsibly.
If you want your church to be more discoverable online, one of the best things you can do is nail your church website domain name.
Here are nine quick tips to follow on your way to a memorable, discoverable domain name for your church website. [Read more…]
Mark Ward is the author of Authorized and recently wrote and appeared in a documentary of the same name. In this interview, we learn about the origins of the film, what went into writing the screenplay, and what audience reactions have been to his arguments about KJV readability. [Read more…]
Logos 8 Basic is now available for free download.
A feature-light version of Logos 8, Basic is ideal for anyone just beginning their Logos journey.
If you want to jump to the next step up, consider Logos 8 Fundamentals.
Here’s a bit about how the two compare. [Read more…]