As you are probably aware, YouTube is one of several video-sharing sites on the internet where anyone, including you or even your church can upload videos for others to view. Business’s both large and small have used this type of service to promote their products or services. There are 100 million videos viewed daily! What [...]
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We want to think that churches do a good job of welcoming people, but do we subconsciously undermine that by some of our actions? I think you would be surprised just how often that we do. If you are a first time visitor to your church, what is it that you see? What are the [...]
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You see the church down the street filling up faster than yours. You and your spouse are at the coffee shop and overhear a couple talking with their friends about the same church. Over and over again, you hear about people loving the services that church is putting on, the new ministry they have just [...]
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Don’t think that the bad economy hasn’t affected all areas of our lives. The downturn has hit every sector of our society and hasn’t left out churches either. In a new survey conducted by Lifeway Research of 1,000 pastors who were asked about the impact of “recent problems in the economy”, they found the following: [...]
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What happens when one of the tenets of your religion is obeying the law and the people who are gravitating to you are illegal immigrants? That is the challenge facing the Mormon Church as they are aggressively reaching out to Latino communities around the world. But just as Cathy Lee Grossman of USAToday points out [...]
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My wife and I had some friends in from out of town, so we headed down to St. Simons. If you have never been to St. Simons, it is in the SE corner of Georgia. It is a beautiful place where even if you have been stressed, will definitely get you into relaxation mode. But I wasn’t [...]
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Yesterday morning, I got up early, went down to the hospital to have a stress and echo tests done on my heart. The stress test can be done several ways, but in my case what they did was hook you up to this giant machine, took about 15 minutes of pictures of my heart, another [...]
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Recently, there’s been a lot of talk in the news and around the dinner tables throughout the US and the world for that matter about the term: Bail-out. It is the word of the moment. The government bailing out AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. Stock, financial institutions and banks got bailed out because of [...]
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