Creativity
If you want to bring your church blog into the mobile world for free, here's how. I talked to a representative from 2ergo.com today. 2ergo provides a mobile platform for high profile mobile content providers like music companies, celebrities, large corporations, and other big users. Of course,
church as abbey
Steve Taylor* started an interesting conversation about a sustainable spiritual collective. He even renamed his blog sustain:if:able kiwi. Fortunately he's still at the same url, so you can find Steve here under his new nom de plume. But back to my point. Steve tackles the missional
Culture
Remember the Friday is for Freebies! giveaway each week in 2009. Good free church stuff all for the taking. Click here for this week's freebie and rules. Outreach2Go.com is now live and has some good stuff on it. I'll be blogging there about the "
Culture
A funeral home in Hollywood, California reports that under-40s are taking their Blackberries with them when they go. I mean really go, as in dead. Sort of gives new meaning to the word mobile. One guy even had his GameBoy put in his casket. This trend apparently started in the
Creativity
I mentioned this yesterday on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and some other places, but if you don't get those feeds, here's an early Christmas present for you: YouVersion, an online multi-edition Bible, is now available for Blackberries. The iPhone version has been out for a while, but
Community
Most of you who follow this blog do it by feed reader. If you get me on a feed reader, you may not know about some of the new tools I'm using. I'm finding them useful: 1. Twitter. Ed Stetzer evangelized me to Twitter at NOC2008.
bless the world
One of the things I learned while I attended seminary in Texas was that dominoes are for more than lining up and knocking down. Be that as it may, we're headed for an ecclesiastical domino effect brought to us by an economy in recession -- a recession, we
bless the world
I'm playing around here and this is the rough draft of 101 Outreach Ideas for Small Churches. Any others you want to add? I'd love to hear any stories you have about any outreach ideas you've used. I'm working on a book,
Culture
"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau in his groundbreaking book, Walden. With Thoreau as a starting point, Bill McKibben has assembled the finest, most comprehensive anthology of American environmental writing one could hope to find. The combined work of 101 authors, running
Creativity
I got tired of lugging my laptop to meetings, so I got a Blackberry before I went to NOC2008 in San Diego. Of course, when I got there, everyone I saw had an iPhone or a BB, so I'm not exactly on the cutting edge here, but I&
Congregation
I'm reading Seth Godin's new book, Tribes. Godin packs his small book with pithy observations about the nature of "tribes" and the qualities tribes are looking for in leaders. Although he doesn't explicitly say this, it occurred to me that a small
bless the world
Here's the powerpoint I used in my NOC2008 workshop, Small Churches Make Good Neighbors. I'm using the abbey church model, and discussing the 10 aspects of the ancient celtic abbeys applied to churches today. The ppt is on SlideShare, so you can view and download the