Holiday Pictures

November 12, 2010
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download One of the things you need to ask yourself as you look at your church family is “what do we have?” What talents are available in my congregation. As its not officially the holiday season, do you have a photographer? Why not offer free holiday pictures for Christmas [...]

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Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask – Free Kindle Book

November 11, 2010

Is one of the things holding you back from sharing your faith is you think you will be faced with a question you can’t answer? This new book is for you. The best thing of all (if you own a kindle), the book is FREE for the next 10 days. Here is the book description [...]

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Outreach Ideas Book Bundle

October 26, 2010

While surfing around Amazon.com from some outreach ideas, I came across a book bundle from outreach magazine. These books are titled 25 Proven Outreach Ideas, and Keep the Change outreach ideas on a shoestring. Here is the description from amazon.com Includes the one copy of the booklet 25 Proven Outreach Ideas for Your Church and [...]

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Free Hugs – Simple and Effective

October 24, 2010
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download A group of teenagers ascended on Vineland in NJ to give out Free Hugs. All they did was make some signs that read “free hugs” and went into the neighborhood. There wasn’t any street preaching, no bible banging, just hugs. They identified themselves as Christians, but the goal [...]

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Even MegaChurches Have Issues

October 19, 2010

According to a new report, The Cystal Cathedral home of the “Hour of Power” and previously headed by Robert Schuller (now by his daughter Sheila Schuller Coleman) filed for bankrupcy today. They are in debt to the tune of $43 million. Some might wonder why? I thought it was interesting that the story states, “The [...]

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To Save A Life Movie Review

August 4, 2010

I had seen this movie advertised in different Christian Magazines as well as stores like Family Christian. When I saw it arrive in my local red box I decided to rent it. To Save a Life is designed to get people talking. It wants people talking about teen suicide, divorce, parenting, cutting, drugs, pregnancy, Internet, Christian [...]

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Small Church Outreach

July 8, 2010

Outreach has come out with their Small Church America issue with tips and insights from small churches and what they are doing to build their members, and lead other to Christ. You can buy the issue here Here is a sample as the fourth of July was a few weeks ago. Fourth of July Parade [...]

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Outreach Vs Evangelism

January 27, 2010
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Outreach Vs Evangelism I was reading a great article in Outreach magazine. It was talking about how people use the words outreach and evangelism interchangeably. On this podcast I’ve been asking for your ideas on what you do to evangelize. Looking back, what I’ve been doing is asking [...]

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The Courage to Stand Up

January 12, 2010

You rarely hear anything good about Christianity, let alone someone saying it can save someone’s life. Well Bret Hume did just this on a recent Fox news message. Now I’m sure this will set off a bunch of scoffing by the media, but it was inspiring to see someone in such a public place stand [...]

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More Uses For Twitter

December 17, 2009

I just read a great article about using Twitter as an outreach tool. I mentioned in a previous episode about how I use twitter to share prayter concerns, and announce events (remember many people receive “tweets” on their phone). This article talks about how using the advanced search features  you can filter by zip code [...]

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