Thoughts on Data, Culture, and Organizational Development
Originally Posted: Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Now Playing: silence again
Paul said that “everything is permissible” but not necessarily “beneficial” and that he would not be “controlled” by anything. So with that being said, let’s look at our actions, like smoking and drinking. It is clear that scripture says nothing Continue reading “Grace or Law?”
OK, so this is the final installment in our Church Web Strategy Series for now. Obviously, with the fast paced advancement of technology, in a year of two this will need to be appended but these 5 posts are intended to be a good primer to get you started. If you’d like to view them all together you can do that here. These are some lessons we’ve learned regarding using social media over the last few years. Continue reading “Church Web Strategy – Part 5”
Originally Posted: Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Mood: 
hungry
Now Playing: silence
Topic: the character of God
So, this is my first post. I decided to be a nonconformist and refused to create one of these. However, as time passed I began to see the good of having a blog in order to update people, dialog through thoughts, and share your general outlook on life. I don’t know if any good will come out of it yet but I hope so. Continue reading “Mustering through my heretical thoughts”
OK folks, so I’ve been trying to decide how to do this and I think it’s probably more like ripping off a band-aid. So here we go. I’m going to start a new series of updates for Thursdays. Yay! Two posts a week!! These posts will be entitled “Throwback Thursdays”. Continue reading “Exciting Announcement”
One more day till the new year. Turns out 2012 wasn’t the end of the world. So, on that theme, I thought I’d start this next year with a question for you. What would you do if you had one day left to live? It’s a new year, you have a world to change, what will you do? How will you make every day count?
Happy New Year all!!!
I was planning on publishing some goofy thing on Conversatio Morum for Christmas. Similar to what happened on Thanksgiving. However, as I started reading the Christmas account from Matthew 2 this year, any goofy post I had thought of fell by the wayside. I was taken into the story in a new way. There was a part that I had simply accepted and never meditated on, or ignored. Until yesterday. Continue reading “Newtown, the Christmas story, and Bethlehem’s Sons”
This is the 4th post on Church Web Strategy here at Conversatio Morum. When it comes to Missiology, technology (specifically web technology) is one of your biggest assets. If you aren’t sure where to start you can read the previous 3 posts here, here, and here.
This post is dedicated to social media. Social Media is a great way to increase traffic to your site and to increase your page rank. This can also increase visibility of your church through means apart from your web site. The four we are going to examine today are Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and YouVersion. Continue reading “Church Web Strategy – Part 4”
Hey folks, I was going to post something on Technology and Theology, but I’m taking a break for this week from the web strategy series to address something more specific to mission and theology. We’ll, hopefully, jump back to the series with web strategy next week.
Every church has them, they’re noisy, loud, make a mess, and generally just have to be watched all the time. No, I’m not talking about babies although these things are true for them too. (I mean, have you seen what a 6 month old can do while left alone? It’s amazing the amount of destructive energy they have. Now if only we could harness that for good…….ok that’s a rabbit trail for another day.) What I’m actually talking about is Continue reading “Don’t Complain To Me”
This is the third in a series of posts on church web strategy. You can find the previous posts here and here. You will also want to check out the guest post by Bryan Logan here. This post is dedicated more to the actual implementation and less to the why behind the implementation.
There are tons of options for how to set up a church site out there. At the church where i’m on staff, we have Continue reading “Church Web Strategy – Part 3”
It’s time for a guest post!! Here’s one from Bryan Logan. Bryan Logan is a husband, father, and computer programmer. In his free time, he innovates. These innovations may materialize as activities with the kids, new/easier/better ways of doing things, smart phone apps, or just funny blog posts. You can check out the blog he writes with his wife at http://www.logan.cc/blog/ or follow him on Twitter @BryanMarkLogan.
Josh has previously talked about the need for a church web strategy here, and here. If you don’t have one, then you’re already behind the times and you need to get one today. But what if you’re saying to yourself, “I already have a website. How can I get ahead of that?” Great question. Mobile phones are becoming more popular than computers. If your website isn’t mobile-compatible, it should be. Pare it down a bit to the essentials (location, worship time, events, etc) and have the option to go to the full site.
If you’re thinking, “Hey, that’s great. But what if I want to a step further than a mobile website?” Well, the answer is, “Make an app.” Continue reading “Church Mobile App”