2014-06-13T15:25:47-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/ebook/ http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/12437 2014-06-13T15:25:47-05:00 Belle is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Culturewatch ministry offer these valuable discussion helps for small groups. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/12205 2014-05-08T11:23:12-05:00 Blogger Rodlie Ortiz is offering a free ebook to all those who follow his blog. In his book Why Every Leader Must Blog: 7 Reasons To Start Now & 11 Tips To Get You Started, his contention is an established one – that what we sit down to consider, think around, and write about, we understand and remember far better. That's why you used to write essays at school and college, remember? It's one reason why people keep journals or diaries, or even take notes during sermons. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/10602 2013-04-11T13:18:50-05:00 Sign up for the email newsletter at Killer Tribes and you'll get a free copy of Bryan Allain's new booklet This is NOT a treasure map as a thank you. This is a helpful message to anyone who has been disappointed in a creative project or ministry. In 25 pages, he shows you a new (and biblical) way of perceiving your life, failures and successes. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/10586 2013-04-09T14:09:21-05:00 Free Kindle ebook for limited period only: Your Church In The News: How to get your church in the media spotlight, for all the right reasons. Plus other free church resources for news releases and social media. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/10485 2013-03-08T15:20:48-05:00 A growing number of free short ebooks are available on social and other media for church ministry. Note the word 'short'. Long books can be great, but a surprising amount of wisdom and practical advice can be condensed into 10-20 pages. It is, perhaps, the 15-minute TED lecture approach, applied to text. You can read them quickly, and keep them as reference manuals. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/10367 2013-02-12T10:50:13-05:00 It has long been a concern of mine that mission agencies and other ministries should escape a proprietorial mindset of 400 years of print-on-paper culture. They frequently publish advocacy or discipleship books, booklets and group study guides (or hold the copyright to out-of-print titles) which sell only a few hundred copies a year maximum – a distribution output which will therefore be read by a very limited number of people, usually within a single country, and may not even pay for inventory costs. If only missions and ministries could just let them out 'into the wild' in the form of free PDFs, Kindle and iTunes ebooks, and phone apps. Readership will likely go up by a factor of 10, 50 or even 100 times or more, and literature can be used in countries and by demographics who would not previously have had the opportunity to do so. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/10191 2013-01-17T14:46:38-05:00 Two journalism professors from Christian universities have teamed up to make a short iPad-only book that uses interactive content to help new writers snag a byline. "'A One-Step Guide to a Byline' is designed for new writers who want to know the bare minimum for writing an article for the popular press and it uses roll-over features, an interactive quiz and eight videos to help writers succeed," says Michael Ray Smith, project director and professor from Campbell University in Buies Creek. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/9417 2012-10-02T18:08:17-05:00 Churches, ministries and the missions community are starting to explore the incredible potential of mobile phones in evangelism and discipleship. This free 40-page book looks particularly at the options in the Majority World http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7847 2012-04-12T09:05:58-05:00 Smartphone use is increasing dramatically in the Majority World. But for many poorer people who own mobiles or aspire to them, a simple phone is all they may afford for some years ahead. So the new Worldreader system which turns these phones into smartphones of a sort, with cloud storage of ebooks, all accessed via the phone signal, is quite remarkable. Free ebooks can be placed in the hands of African school students, for instance. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/6397 2011-12-01T10:08:09-05:00 What are some impediments to Bible and book distribution in the Majority World, including the Middle East? How can mobile phones be part of the Great Commission.