2010-12-26T09:19:12-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/ideas/ http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2993 2010-12-26T09:19:12-05:00 Digital can enhance the ways we share the good news in a Christmas context. http://truewoman.com/?id=815 2010-09-08T16:45:16-05:00 What is your reaction when your position is challenged? To fight back in self-defense? To return criticism with criticism? To set up your defense with unbeatable logic tinged with bitter jabs? http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/398 2010-08-09T15:37:46-05:00 Are you involved in any sort of advocacy – for web evangelism, missions, or anything? Chris Brogan has suggestions for doing it well. Are you a perfectionist or an optimalist? And what’s the difference? Leading Blog has the answer. There’s a free downloadable ebook Kingdom Partnerships For Synergy in Missions available from WEA. Pew Forum have published a study on why people leave the church. Think Christian blog shares thoughts about it. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/556 2010-08-09T15:35:25-05:00 Communicate Jesus blog shares this very easy idea – an A-frame sign outside the church building. Sounds very effective. For the more conventional fixed church signage, there’s a book that may help: 701 Sentence Sermons L James Harvey Kregel Publications ISBN 0-8254-2887-4 Here’s a new book of ’single sentence sermons’ – quotations and aphorisms – which have been collected together by Harvey to “use on church signs, bulletins, newsletters and sermons”. In fact, many would be useful on church websites too, perhaps on a rotating basis. Many are specifically evangelistic, others are motivational for Christians. http://internetevangelismday.com/promote.php 2010-08-07T18:38:47-05:00 How can you get more visitors to your website? What can you do to stimulate traffic? Here's a checklist of 32 items you need to consider. Many of these you're probably doing already; others you meant to do and forgot about; still others you've never heard of. http://intervarsity.org/studentsoul/spotlight/ 2008-01-04T10:20:30-05:00 Spotlight is a place to share stories, essays and ideas on InterVarsity's StudentSoul.org. http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=150&art_id=137 2007-11-24T09:29:04-05:00 Too many youth ministers miss out on an incredible source of youth ministry wisdom and ideas - their own volunteers and youth. Not only can their ideas revolutionize our ministries, but by taking them seriously we take their leadership to a new level, allowing them to feel ownership and responsibili http://youth-ministry.info/articles.php5?type=2&cat=40&art_id=137 2007-11-21T09:40:45-05:00 Too many youth ministers miss out on an incredible source of youth ministry wisdom and ideas - their own volunteers and youth. Not only can their ideas revolutionize our ministries, but by taking them seriously we take their leadership to a new level.