Narramore Christian Foundation
Legacy Youth Ministry Resources
Thousands of articles, sermon illustrations, Bible studies and more, all aimed at equipping youth pastors and parents to connect with young people today.
Filling the church communication gap... with Facebook
When a worship service is canceled due to weather, or an urgent prayer request crops up in the...
Today's devotional: whose names do you know?
I'm terrible with names. I'm ashamed to admit that several years after joining and getting...
The ministries in the Gospel.com Community organize information into 'topics' to help you find what you're looking for. Learn more
Christian communication books - reach unchurched outsiders with the gospel
The books in this section cover different aspects of effective Christian communication and how to reach the unchurched, and are highly recommended.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/better-christian-communication.php
Best books for Christians explaining the Web and digital communication culture
The books in this section explain the nature of the Web and digital communication, and are highly recommended.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/best-internet-books.php
Book review: Net Words - Creating High-Impact Online Copy, by Nick Usborne
We have a lot to learn from the people who make a living by communicating on the Web in e-commerce. Not, of course, that Christian writing should become glib sales patter. However, Usborne’s book is not merely about sales techniques. It reveals much about the nature of the Web and the expectations of web users, and how it differs from other mediums.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/net-words-creating-high-impact-online-copy...
Book review: How to Communicate with Those Outside the Christian Community While We Still Can, by Tim Downs
The biblical concept of ‘sowing’ as compared with ‘reaping’ is explained. The book demonstrates how to:
* bring up spiritual subjects with busy and distracted people.
* use secular movies and books to talk about biblical ideas.
* overcome prejudice and stereotypes in our listeners.
* keep open doors of communication with even hostile opponents.
* move everyone we meet a step closer to the Gospel.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/finding-common-ground.php
Book review: The New Media Frontier, by J Reynolds and R Overton
This valuable handbook features sections from 14 contributors, each expert in their fields, and actually covers more ground than the title implies. Its main purpose is to help us understand the digital media and how they are changing communication for ever. Blogging, podcasting, apologetics, evangelism, and the Christian academic world are all examined critically. There’s a helpful section on the development of distance learning. Journalism and ethics are explored too.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/the-new-media-frontier.php
Book review: Persuasive Technology - Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do by B J Fogg
This secular book gives an excellent and readable understanding of how computers communicate. Professor Fogg’s research offers many insights that also relate to Christian use of the Internet. His concept of ‘website credibility’ is very important for Christian web ministry.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/persuasive-technology.php
Book review: The Millennium Matrix by M Rex Miller
Miller's compelling thesis is that the church has been located in four different communication cultures over the last 2000 years, and that each one has profoundly influenced the entire fabric of the church - the way it is organized, relates together, and communicates to the outside world. For the first 1500 years until the invention of the printing press, society lived in an 'oral communication culture'.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/millennium-matrix.php
Book review: Flickering Pixels - How Technology Shapes Your Faith, by Shane Hipps
This is a very significant and strategic book because it explains the way that electronic media, especially computers and the Web, are changing our culture. As we use them, they are in fact using us, in ways we may not realize.
For 500 years, Western culture has been a 'left-brain' print-based communication culture, where we could express everything in 26 alphabetic characters. The way we preached the gospel, structured our Christian activities and systematized our theology - all have been completely shaped by print. But now technology is rapidly changing this print culture. When the medium changes, the message is changed too. Effective evangelism must take account of these changes.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/flickering-pixels.php
Present information visually - a key to effective biblical communication
“The soul never thinks without a picture” – Aristotle.
In other words, most of us find it very hard to understand abstract truth unless it is presented to us as a picture. In the street, or on our computer desktops, we look for the logo of the product we seek, be it a SubWay sandwich or a computer program, rather than the written equivalent.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2148
Best Christian books and free e-books on evangelism, communication & writing
A wide range of reviews about key books on evangelism and communication, including a large number of free e-books.
http://internetevangelismday.com/books.php