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Round Three: How Do You Spread the Gospel?

We’ve already covered Round One that asks, “Why Are You A Christian?” and Round Two: “Community… and Why It’s Important!” Today we sum up the three-part series with the topic of evangelism. As Christians, we’ve always been told that an important part of our faith involves spreading the Gospel to the unchurched. “It’s important to know the […]

A Cool Observation of God’s Work

This is the coolest thing! I came across this interactive scale of the universe on one of my favorite blogs, churchm.ag (ChurchMag), and it lets you scroll in or out to see the size and details of some of the largest and smallest living and non-living things in the universe. It really puts everything into perspective […]

[VIDEO] Podcast On ISC 2012 With Karen Bishop

We’ve got a new podcast today with Events Manager Karen Bishop, who joins us to talk about our International Shelby Conference 2012. ISC 2012 is scheduled for June 13-15 in Memphis, TN. Karen tells us about this year’s exciting keynote speaker, the worship and praise leaders, who should attend the conference, special speakers and classes, […]

Round Two: Community… & Why It’s Important!

In round one of this three-part series, I talked about what we are supposed to say, as Christians, when people ask us about our faith. Today is about community, and why God wants us to use our communities to answer these questions and reach out to those who don’t know Him. Why do laws sometimes […]

Quora Has a New Resource Section for Churches!

Matt Branaugh, the Director of Editorial at Christianity Today, Church Management Team, has created a page on Quora, a question and answer community site that was actually started by two Facebook employees and is completely operated by its users. Branaugh has created a “Church Management Resources” page that stores information that can be useful for […]

Round One: Why Are You A Christian?

I’m trying out a quick three-post series, starting with this one. So, here it goes… Have you ever been asked the question, “Why Are You A Christian”? If you work in a church, chances are, you have. Did you answer the way you wanted to? Had you thought it out before? In my 25 years […]

The Strange Dynamics of Grace

I was recently talking to a co-worker about one of my former high school classmates and how he made one really bad decision one night and killed someone while he was drinking and driving. We were discussing how people’s lives can change so quickly and how people that you knew when you were younger can […]

North Point Has An iBand. Do You?

I might be behind on this one, but as I was reading through the March/April 2012 issue of Outreach Magazine, I came across an article about using QR codes in creative ways. North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, GA had a QR code to take viewers to a video of their “iBand”. I was intrigued so I […]

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