During brainstorming meetings here at Silas, we try to keep ourselves from sweating over the small stuff, but sometimes our desire to do things “just right” gets us. So imagine my delight when Jakob Nielsen typed: “Not all design decisions are a matter of website survival.” He continues, Read more >>
The Agitator is, well agitating, but that’s the point. You have to respect a blog that has a category called “You Should be Fired.” Their latest post in this category discusses the need for a Chief Digital Officer, someone who is concerned with all the digitial communication of your organization. Read more >>
We like to have fun here at Silas Partners. Today is a day where we have some time set aside for some fun. We setup two bowling alleys in our office.
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Anyone who’s worked with a church website can tell you: The hardest part isn’t coming up with the ideas, it’s coming up with the funding. In an age where web applications are expanding how people connect with each other, there are so many things you’d love to do with your website: Sermon podcasts, blogs, classifieds, small groups…but who has the money, and who has the time?
A lot of churches are finding clever ways to get interactive tools for free: establishing presence on Myspace, joining Facebook, and posting on YouTube, but while these solutions are certainly trendy, they don’t quite fit the actual needs most churches have.
Enter MyChurch.org, a Web 2.0 service focused on church community.
My review is after the jump:
Normally I would be posting a number of links today, but I thought it was important to post this one by itself. WEP wireless encryption was cracked in less than two minutes this week. To find out what that means for your church or ministry read on.
I like humming a tune while I work. Sometimes, I like to listen to solid Biblical teaching while I work. Sometimes, I like to do both at the same time - visiting that place where beautifully orthodox Biblical teaching meets the dopest of funky-fly beats.
I’m talking about a great example of someone using technology and art to deliver the Gospel message in a relevant way. Relevant Revolution mixes Evangelical preaching with hip-hop beats and makes them completely available for download on their website. They deliver these sound-tracked sermons via Podcast, as well. Interestingly enough, you’ll find a few names well known around the Silas Partners office, including Alistair Begg of Parkside Church and Truth for Life.
My personal favorites (so far) are John Piper’s sermon on the Cross, along with CJ Mahaney’s Main Thing sermon… it’s really a toss up.
If you like these sermons, you might also appreciate Relevant Revolution’s Bible on Beat, another compelling example of a creative and relevant way deliver the Gospel message.
From Hebrews
“Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.”
Hebrews 4:16-16, 5:7-9 — New King James Version
Silas Partners exists to help Christian ministries fulfill their missions. Our specialty lies in helping ministries use the Internet effectively, in a way that supports their overall goals and strategic priorities. Read more >