We are proud to announce the recent launch of TheGatheringNashville.com. The Gathering Nashville is a movement of Christ followers who have come together to create environments and experiences where real people connect to God and each other to change the world.
The next M2LIVE webinar will feature Cynthia Ware — A technology and church development consultant, Cynthia also serves as the executive director of the Center for Church Communications. Join us online August 17th at 11:30 a.m. (EDT).
We are proud to announce the recent launch of Weavings.org. The Weavings journal offers a space where questions posed by contemporary life and the spiritual resources of the Christian heritage can encounter and illuminate one another. The journal strives to create a forum in which contributors and readers can converse on important matters of common concern. Big Heart Design worked with editors of the beloved journal to help develop a new web and social media strategy that stays true to the journal’s roots, while embracing the ever-changing world of new media. We are very proud of the results and hope you enjoy.
So how do you find consensus when creating a new visual design for your church website? The one thing you need to fully understand is that it is near impossible to get more than two people to agree on choice of colors, fonts and design style. But you can find consensus.
I’ve sat through literally thousands of sermons in my lifetime. I’ve heard it all — everything from tent revivals in Southeast Kentucky, urban ministries, mainline churches, to the slick digital presentations. While a handful of these pastors have truly touched me, I often find myself forgetting the context of sermons as time passes. Granted, it’s difficult to make a connection every week, and I admit I’m not always prepared to receive the message. But there’s one absolute that I can always count on – the raw, unprepared and unedited testimony of a follower of Christ willing to share his or her profession of faith is transformative.
This past Sunday night, as I sit engrossed in the latest episode of Celebrity Apprentice, my attention was broken by a very familiar far off stare that I’ve become all too familiar — In this case, the blank gaze belonged to the former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich.
For those of you who watched, you witnessed something that happens in executive offices across this country every day – executive leaders that have become technically irrelevant. Blagojevich’s situation isn’t much different than most – he has been in a position of leadership for an extended period of time, and has relied on administrative staff for so long, that the basics of operating a computer and navigating the Internet have simply passed him by.
As the World Wide Web celebrates 20 years, Dr Aleks Krotoski explores how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives in the new BBC documentary, “Virtual Revolution”. Joined by some of the web’s biggest names including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft and the web’s inventor – she explores how far the web has lived up to its early promise.
