Demo this theme here and get iThemes Builder purchase details here

This theme is included in the current iThemes Builder bundle ($127) and available now for our Builder community members in their member panel.

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Since I’ve joined the iThemes team, we have been blasting out a bunch of new projects which has kept us all pretty swamped.  One of the major products we released this morning is a new WordPress theme called Flexx Theme. It is off the wall, and I believe for churches (or anyone else for that matters) it is going to absolutely change the playing field when it comes to church blogs or church websites.

Here’s just a few of the goodies that Flexx Theme is capable of doing:

• Offering 1,056 layouts variations!
• Click of the button layout and styling options.
• Easy to upload backgrounds and headers without FTP.
• No coding experience needed or required to use!
• Rotating and Fading Image Headers.
• Automatically Search Engine Optimized.
• Built in Color Picker for Background Colors
• and more things you can shake a stick at!

I will also be working on FLEXX THEME: CHURCH which will be released at ChurchTheme.com in the next week or so.  Either way you won’t want to miss getting it but if you do want the original Flexx Theme then get it now because the price will go up next week!

All this to say what ties into my headline.

We are going to load the Flexx Theme for Church Communications Pro to show it off and so you can see how it works.  So please excuse the mess as we start relaunching CCP and give it one new sweet look!

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The resource site is filled with links, video tutorials and more …

You can read the whole backstory to iThemes … how I built our church’s website in WordPress, and of course, you might be familiar with the series I did here on how to use WP specifically for churches.

Go check out our free WordPress as a CMS resource site here!

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As of Jan. 2, 2008, I am taking the plunge, or leap, or whatever you want to call it … and going full-time with my web design business.

I’ve served in churches and in Southern Baptist life for almost six years now, so it’s definitely a huge step for me and my family. It was also extremely hard to tell my pastor as I loved serving under him. I learned so much from him … primarily, about being a godly man, a husband and a leader.

My job as director of communications at Quail Springs Baptist Church was and will probably always be the best job I’ve ever had because of the environment and most importantly the people.

My wife and I will still continue to serve our church home — Quail Springs — only I will not be sitting in the church office during the week. We’ve been serving in our college ministry since last Spring and it’s been such a blessed time of walking alongside our students.

ON BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR

Becoming an entrepreneur has been a lifetime dream of mine that I never thought would be realized. (Both my grandfathers were entrepreneurs.)

But I literally fell into doing freelance web design last March mostly just because I wanted to learn to do it better. God placed Brian in my life and he helped me grow and expand my business.

We were able to do some neat things because of this “side” business. And I quickly saw the opportunity to fulfill my dream of owning my own business (full-time).

When people ask me about it, I usually describe it as being “surreal.”

I also have a lot to learn.

ON MINISTERING IN THE BUSINESS WORLD

One thing I have learned though is that through my business I’ve been able to minister to people who are unchurched and lost. One of the hardest things about being on a church staff is that it’s easy to insulate yourself from the world.

Sadly, I confess … I do not have hardly any growing relationships with lost people now. And that’s my fault.

But through my business, I’ve had the opportunity on a number of occasions to share my faith and demonstrate the love and grace of Jesus Christ.

Pray for us, though … we need that support to be bold yet loving …

ON THIS BLOG

If you’re wondering what will happen with this blog, it’ll still be here and hopefully I’ll actually be able to devote more time to it. It’s my ministry to the church. Although I do make some money off of it, with more than 700 posts now, it’s loaded with free content I offer to churches and pastors.

Again, I’d love to have more people guest blog here …. if you’re interested, send me an email.

ON THE NEW VENTURE ADVENTURE

Up until now, I’ve just mentioned I’m going to focus full-time on my web design business. The bulk of my time though will be devoted to a new venture that Brian and I are working on together — iThemes.com.

I’m extremely excited to get to work on iThemes … we’ve got the windows boarded up for now, but if you’re interested, sign up for our email announcement and be the first to know when we go live.

Anyway, that’s it for now ….

Grace and Peace!

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So far Nathan and I have released five free themes, with more on the way:

• RockinBlue - a 2 column sleek and simple theme that started it all (so far it’s got about 1,800 downloads)
• RockinBlue3Col – a 3 column version ofRockinBlue
• RockinBlue and Green - a funky 2 column transformation of RockinBlue
• RockinBiz - a blue 2 column, highly customizable theme designed for businesses (and churches)
• RockinBizRed - our biz theme, only with a classy red scheme.

Check out these themes at Rockin Themes … and be sure to bookmark the site and subscribe to the feed as more themes are on the way as we team up to offer quality themes.

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Also, if you haven’t check out his free WordPress themes that ROCK for churches, you need to go there now. I really like how he’s laid out some of those templates.

Check out his list of WordPress-driven church websites.

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Download the theme here.
Demo it here.

Also, if you don’t know it, I’m doing custom WordPress themes. Contact me for a quote for your personal blog or church website.

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