• Your Most Important Relationship
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• Digital
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• Your Personal Power
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• Culture
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• John

The serenity prayer. And being open to real change.
Interesting thoughts from Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog on 'less is more' with the 'serenity prayer' as a flow chart.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2943

Bible Bloating - #6180
As you read the Bible, ask yourself two questions: "What is God saying here?" And "What am I going to do differently today because He said it?" God's Holy Spirit knows all about God's Word and all about your life. Each day ask God to show you how to bring those two together.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/bible-bloating-6180

The Hand That Won't Let Go - #6175
When He died for you, He proved He's got the love that won't let you go. When He walked out of His grave on that first Easter morning, He proved He's got the power to hold onto you through everything life and death can throw at you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-hand-that-wo...

One Permanent in a World of Temporary - #6166
There's something deep inside us that tells us that we're made for something more than this - for a relationship, and a love that we cannot lose. Many of us have lost a lot trying to find that love; we've given things we can't get back, we've made mistakes that have left scars, all for love.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/one-permanent-in...

Moving With the Quake - #6162
The Golden Gate Bridge, while flexible, is not made out of Play-Doh. It has solid structure and so should your life and your days. This is no excuse for laziness or lack of planning. But it is an encouragement to folks who like control to loosen up a little bit and make room for God to do His very dynamic thing. It's the ones who are flexible that survive the shaking.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/moving-with-the-quake-6162

Digital media are rewiring our brains, says author and researcher
Researcher and author Nicholas Carr has written extensively about the way the Web is rewiring our brains so that we cannot concentrate on longer-lasting tasks such as reading a book.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2390

Changing Facebook profile names according to your target audience
If your main Facebook page is primarily based around your ministry, and most of your friends are also involved in ministry, then it is not going to be an appropriate environment to build relationships with not-yet-Christians. It is not dishonest to maintain two different Facebook under slightly different names. Here are some suggestions.
http://internetevangelismday.com/facebook-names.php

The Internet is changing the context of ministry for churches
Before the Internet and YouTube, this was impossible – that a small-church wedding video could go viral, and then become the storyline for a major TV series: see The Office, the Wedding and the Power of the Internet – a blog posting from Mark Roberts. Look too at how the world of advertising has changed in 20 years. A comparison chart was featured at Barcelona’s Chiringuito and was picked up by Ministry Marketing Coach, where Kerry Bural comments, “Each of these mediums and technologies (plus many more) represent potential connection points that could and should be leveraged for reaching people. Do churches and ministries have a baseline understanding of these and other mediums? Is the complex nature of communication on your radar?”
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/920

The West is a mission field. We need mission insights to understand worldview and culture.
Time is a strange commodity. We stayed last month at a holiday cottage in the north Derbyshire village where I spent some years of my childhood. It’s apparently the oldest building in the village. Friends in the New World will perhaps be particularly entranced by its age – it was already 200 years old when Charles Wesley stayed there! It is part of a farm complex which later became a Moravian settlement for 50 years.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/768

Changing our gospel presentation methods to suit the postmodern context
The 1000-year-old Campanile di San Marco in Venice suddenly collapsed into a heap of rubble in 1902. Mercifully, there were no casualties apart from the caretaker’s cat. There followed a time of great debate – whether, or how, to replace this beautiful bell-tower. The view which gained acceptance was summed up in the campaign slogan Come ere, dove era – meaning “As it was, where it was”, pronounced ‘COM-aira, DOV-aira’ – and a near-identical replica (with better internal strengthening) was inaugurated in 1912.
http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/279