Archive for January, 2007
Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches – edited by Robert Webber and Mark Driscoll, and featuring some of the “heavy hitters” in the emerging church conversation.
At Midwestern, I heard quite a bit about the emerging church. One of my seminary profs has been blogging about it and I’m very appreciatitive of his contribution to helping me (and us) understand it better — the good, bad, and ugly.
Here’s a sample chapter download (PDF).
Zondervan, if you’re listening … I’d love to have a review copy of this book! 
[Found via Mark Driscoll]
Blogging Tip: Create a Favicon for Your Blog or Those Cute Browser Icons
Posted by: | CommentsArt sent me an idea for a blogging tip: How to create a favicon … or those cute little browser icons located just left of the website address in your browser.
Rather than recreate the wheel (or tutorial), I thought I’d give you some links or “favicon generators”:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
http://www.antifavicon.com/
OR … how to create a favicon in Photoshop.
Get some inspiration for your favicon also with this excellent list by Smashing Magazine.
LifeWay Research Study Gives 5 Characteristics of Standout Churches
Posted by: | CommentsI really appreciate the new focus of LifeWay President Dr. Thom Rainier on doing quality research. This Baptist Press article details 5 characteristics they found in “19 standout churches:”
1. Pastor sets the bar
2. Church atmosphere
3. Evangelistic appeal
4. Intentional outreach
5. Not all the same
Read the full story here.
MORE RESOURCES: Check out the LifeWay Research site, including the MP3 podcast and PowerPoint slides for this study.
Two Quick Ways to Make WordPress Look Like A Regular Website and Not a Blog
Posted by: | CommentsAs I’ve said before in this tutorial series – Using WordPress to Run Church Websites – WordPress was really designed for creating and maintaining blogs.
But as we’re exploring in this series, it can also be used as a way to easily create and maintain small to medium-size churches.
There are two quick and relatively easy ways to make WordPress looks less like a typical blog and more than a fully functional, clean and sleek church website: creating a static home page and a dynamic sidebar navigation.
OK, those are fancy, $2 words, but I had to use them …
Now, I’ll explain what that means.
Thumbs Up to Enterprise Car Rental
Posted by: | CommentsI always like to recommend companies that I feel take care of people and meet their needs so I want to give a thumbs up to Enterprise Car Rental. I arrived in Florida on Sunday for the Global Church Advancement Church Plant Conference and originally planned on taking a cab to my hotel but thought it might be cheaper to rent a car (which it was). One of the great things was that I was able to call and confirm a car rental in 10 minutes. When I dropped it off today they immediately rushed me back to the hotel for the conference.
I think that companies and churches who put the real needs of people first will make a difference and have healthy growth whether that is in profits or people.
