Last Thanksgiving I was at L.D. Bell High School in Hurst, TX playing football with about 25 Albanian-Americans. Now that’s a hyphenation one doesn’t come across too often. The passes, curse words and insults were flying….
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In the first chapter of John, Jesus tells Nathaniel that he had seen him sitting underneath a fig tree. Is there something significant about the fig tree? Some scholars ….
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Do You Have a Successful Church Twitter Account Why are some churches successful at using social media and others aren’t? While I haven’t found any stunning success stories, there are some small successes. For example, Zach’s House, a microchurch network in the Dallas-Ft. Worth I began a few years ago has used Twitter effectively on […]
The following Twitter advice applies equally well to business, personal or church Twitter accounts The Twitterverse is huge. Of course, it isn’t Facebook, and praise God for that. Now, I understand the purpose of facebook, it’s to play games, stalk old classmates and to bother people with invites to all kinds of things. But what […]
Tweak Your Twitter Account and More Here are five signs your congregation may need the services of a freelance social media manager: 1) The church Twitter account profile picture is an egg. 2) The church email inbox is filled with friend requests from Xanga, Friendster and MySpace. 3) Your ministry staff thinks Google + is […]
Should Churches tweet? If you’re ready for that big responsibility, then I’d say, “Go for it!” But as the book of James says, “Not everyone who can teach should be a teacher.” The same can be said of those who tweet. “Not all churches who can tweet should tweet.” When you start a twitter account […]
Churches like to be attractional A much respected elder at the church we attended a couple years back stood up one day to announce the church would be changing names. In his talk, he mentioned two, maybe three times, their desire to have a new name which would attract people. When speaking of having […]