2008 Website Redesign
Here at church, we are six months into a process that will result in a complete redesign of our website and a move to a new CMS system. While we are very excited about the end result of the process, a...
View ArticleDepartment of Redundancy Department
Church signs have always been a bit humorous to me. And as technology progresses worldwide, I think they simply keep getting worse. I’m not sure who designs these things, but the sign companies need to...
View ArticleAd Aware
Perhaps it is the economic downturn. Perhaps it is a new passion for quality. Perhaps it is completely random. For whatever reason, businesses that rely on churches for a portion of their income are...
View ArticleWebsite Update
Coming September 20, the new Mountaintopchurch.com. It has been a loooooong time coming, but we’ve worked through most of the details and are nearing a launch. Having completed the design phase, the...
View ArticleThe Crew
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about this group of people… The crew. It has now been over four years since I stood with them as leader of the volunteer ministry they participated in. Some were...
View Article525,600 minutes
How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights In cups of coffee In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In five hundred twenty-five thousand Six hundred minutes How do...
View ArticleCathedrals Make A Comeback
Lifeway Research recently discovered what many of us in the church world already knew: the unchurched prefer cathedrals to contemporary church design. By a nearly 2-to-1 ratio over any other option,...
View ArticlePiper Says NO to Media
The Barna Group indicates that over two-thirds of Protestant church congregations have projection screens in their auditorium. A church which avoids using media in its worship services in now the...
View ArticleTwitter and the Church Website
Congrats go out to my church, Mountaintop Community Church, as well as my team for being featured recently by our website hosting/design firm for our website/Twitter integration. In their words, “we...
View ArticleStar Wipe
For a certain period of my life, the Simpsons was on my list of most-watched TV programs. In college, it was a weekly event. The Simpsons’ occasionally irreverent, but often insightful, humor has...
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