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Why I’m attracted to blogging
Last week I had an extended conversation with a friend who’s graduating from Bible college this semester. She came to me saying, “I’m…
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My Dad is now blogging
My dad started blogging this month if anyone wants to check him out. He already journals and generates so much content that this is almost a natural step for…
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The conclusion of the NYWC
Wow, what an excellent weekend at the [tag]NYWC[/tag]! Dana and I are both safely home and, although very tired physically, we’re both emotionally…
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Notes and thoughts from second day at NYWC
MORNING GENERAL SESSION, BY ROLLIE MARTINSON
I wasn’t quite sure what this guy’s point was and, judging by the number of people that left during his…
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Rethinking church service effectiveness
It’s obvious that way too many people attend church every Sunday and never connect with a word that’s said. I could walk into an average church on…
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Terminate communication with “humor”
Ken Sapp posted a good list of ways to lose contact with students, but I’d like to add one more to it: Joke around about sensitive issues like abortion…
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Legal music downloads becoming free
I’ve been hearing a lot about SpiralFrog.com and its pending release in December. The company plans to offer legal audio and music video downloads in…
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Free invitations to eBible.com
If you haven’t heard of eBible.com it’s definitely work checking out. I’ve always used BibleGateway.com for any online Bible study and…
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Building online communities for youth ministry
The last two weeks of my life have been spent focusing on rebuilding my youth group’s website, like 10 hours a day! The old site was just a bunch of HTML…
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Learning from my(sql) problems
Two days ago I updated my youth group’s online forum to the latest version and man, I had more errors than a screendoor has holes, but resolving them sure…
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