2015-03-18T15:47:45-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/simple/ http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/12722 2015-03-18T15:47:45-05:00 “You win, infographics!” In communicating overall concepts quickly and simply, visual beats text. Learn how churches can use infographics, which apply also to non-profits and other teams. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/8252 2012-06-08T04:58:38-05:00 Communication only happens when the recipient understands the message clearly. Daily Writing Tips encourages all writers to put their copy through a readability tester. This provides a Flesch-Kincaid Grade level and a Reading Ease score. Readers Digest built its huge readership with a style that specifies an English level of the average 13-year-old. They also wisely communicate everything with storytelling. You may perhaps recall personalized non-fiction such as 'I am John's heart'. Wesley would run all his sermons past his maidservant, and simplify the stuff she did not understand. http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/296 2010-08-08T17:38:49-05:00 If you receive comprehensive stats for your English language website, note how many visitors are not from your own country (or another English-speaking one), and are therefore probably second-language English speakers. You can help them greatly if you take steps to simplify your language. This also helps first language speakers, because it speeds up their reading and makes meanings clearer. A win-win situation! Eye-tracking research shows that people tend not to read an entire webpage, but quickly scan it for the main information they are looking for. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20116:6&version=NIV 2009-08-21T12:18:39-05:00 God protects the "simplehearted." This is one of several passages that show that God values simple, childlike faith; we shouldn't put undue stock in our own education or high-minded thinking. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20116:5-7&version=NIV 2009-07-28T10:36:58-05:00 The Psalmist tells us God protects the simplehearted. He says that when our needs are great God will save us because He is full of compassion.