It’s that time again – a chance to write an article for SHRINK the church and win some awesome stuff! But, this time we are opening the contest to EVERYONE who is interested. So, if you’ve been itching to write for Stc (and win something cool) this is your chance!

Seminaries do a great job of corn-feeding the best theology and education to pastors and church leaders, but, they tend to skip the part about the business of running a church. Combine that with the ADD + OCD + Type A pastors that typically go along with a quickly-growing mega church setting and you’ve got yourself the perfect storm for staff burnout.

I’m a big fan of the “simple church” concept, but I have experienced just how daunting a task it can be to under-program my church. We are inundated constantly with opportunities for activity from other churches (which we don’t want to turn down lest we appear uncooperative and standoffish), advertised “movements” local and national (which are good at getting people [...]

Meet Twitter. To date, there are no ads, no charges, and no premium level accounts for this widely popular, free social media staple. If there is one thing I have learned in life, nothing stays free for long.

With a title like that, we will probably look back on this post in a year and laugh… oh well. Allow me to have some fun a bit and look ahead to 2010 based on what the tech world brought us in 2009.

Flash web designers are in hibernation right now making cheesy site templates and shiny nav menus while they try to figure out what the next big thing is for their future.

Churches fail by jumping to the mailer project without giving second thought to the one thing they have that corporations would die for…