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The Techology Show moves to Tuesdays!

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Now on Tuesdays at noon EST.

Just over three years ago, Tony Casey, Matthew Tietje, and Steve Stanley had the idea to start a podcast that would cover technology, theology, and everything in between.  The Techology Show was born to see what technologies pastors and churches could use to have a greater kingdom impact.  I was serving in North Carolina at the time and started out as a monthly guest to talk about youth ministry.

When I moved to South Carolina in August 2010, [Read more…] about The Techology Show moves to Tuesdays!

4 Reasons Every Pastor Should Blog

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Pastor, remember to blog.

I’m a big believer in blogging. Blogging has given me a great outlet at times in my life when I needed to clear my head.  It’s also helped me understand and follow God’s next steps for my life. There are lots of great blogs out there and many of them are by pastors. Here are 4 reasons every pastor should blog.

1.  Blogging is a great way to communicate your church’s vision beyond Sundays.

Perry Noble does a great job of writing a “letter” to his [Read more…] about 4 Reasons Every Pastor Should Blog

Why and How I Use Twitter

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I finally passed 20,000 Twitter followers!

I was not an early adopter of twitter.  However, soon I was running multiple accounts as I launched the Chase Your Lion blog.  I’ve tried to be very intentional with my social media strategy.  A year after joining I posted my thoughts on the 5 groups you see on twitter.  The past few months has been about simplifying my online presence by merging my blogs and phasing out some twitter accounts.  I’d like to answer the why, how, and [Read more…] about Why and How I Use Twitter

The Church and Technology

It’s been a great blessing to be a part of the Good Morning Show on 760 AM in Nashville, TN. David Gould and Rachael Sain are the co-hosts and I have known David through the Wesleyan Church for some time. He’s a frequent viewer of The Techology Show and from that “Tech Talk Tuesday” came about.  On December 28, 2011 we talked about how church’s can use technology in the coming year.  There are lots of challenges rural churches face in the use of technology.  I’m a rural pastor who believes technology is a gift to reach the world.  Here are a few things we talked about this week:

  • Just this week our church created our new website using WordPress(and BLUEHOST.COM).  We including a link to our Twitter account and Facebook Group.  It’s still under construction, but our main goal was to get directions and sermons up initially.
  • We are also utilizing YouVersion to provide interactive sermon notes during worship.  This week I could access the notes online, but not through my phone which was a bit of a let down.
I encourage you to listen to the whole show.  My segment starts around the 27:00 mark.

Blocked Dunks, Porn, and a Pie Chart

In taking a page from the old playbook, here are some great posts from the ole Google Reader.  As the title of the post suggests, they cover a broad range of topics.

On a separate note:  am I the only pastor who hasn’t already attended 3 great conferences this year?  The Southern Area Minister’s Conference was canceled at Southern Wesleyan University and I imagine they won’t have it next year either because of the denominational Gathering next January.  I do miss the traditional lunch at Keith Street Bar and Grill in Clemson with a van full of youth pastors.  We went to Unleash last year, but it’s sold out this year.  So, if you had to pick just 1 conference to go to every year what would it be?

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