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New Look & New Host

Last Updated January 21, 2011 by Matt 8 Comments

This will, hopefully, be the last “status update” post. I decided it was time to update the look of the blog a bit. If you read my blog on your RSS reader, you might want to visit the website proper and see the visual changes that have been made.  It’s still a clean, simple layout, […]

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WordPress Church Website Tips: Google Docs

Last Updated February 5, 2010 by Matt 1 Comment

A little while ago I wrote a series about using WordPress to build a church website. Since then, we’ve come up with a quick and easy solution for posting our worship team schedule. We have a lady who coordinates and schedules our various people who assist during Sunday mornings. She wanted to be able to […]

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How I Built a Church Website for Free: Conclusion

Last Updated April 23, 2009 by Matt 1 Comment

[box type=”info”]Use the Coupon Code “ChurchWebsite” when you sign up for website hosting through HostGator and you will get a 25% discount from HostGator. That also makes sure I get credited for referring you. Thanks! Find out more about HostGator.[/box] Hopefully people will find my series on building a church website for free (or pretty […]

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How I Built a Church Website for Free: Free Google Tools

Last Updated April 21, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

[box type=”info”]Use the Coupon Code “ChurchWebsite” when you sign up for website hosting through HostGator and you will get a 25% discount from HostGator. That also makes sure I get credited for referring you. Thanks! Find out more about HostGator.[/box] When trying to make a highly functional website at no cost, signing up for a […]

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Tweaking the Look

Last Updated March 24, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

I wrote a few weeks ago about the new Vigilance WordPress theme I switched to recently. Until yesterday I was running the theme pretty much as it came and finally got around to tweaking it a touch. I’ve changed up the font, link color, and added a few random pictures I found in Flickr to […]

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Church WordPress Plugins

Last Updated March 23, 2009 by Matt 10 Comments

In order to make the most out of your church website using WordPress, you are going to need to install a few plugins. Plugins are ways to extend the functionality of the core funtcions of WordPress and make your website do exactly what you want it to do. Installing plugins is now extremely easy. In […]

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New Free WordPress Theme Added

Last Updated March 20, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

I added another free theme on my Picking a WordPress Theme post. You might want to check it out. As happens sometimes in life, you don’t do things as early as you had hoped. I didn’t get my next post in the How I Built a Church Website for Free series until late today, and […]

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Best Church WordPress Themes

Last Updated January 2, 2016 by Matt 17 Comments

You’re looking for a free WordPress theme for your church, right? I know, I’ve been there. I’ve used WordPress since 2006 and use it to manage my church’s website. After doing this for all these years, I’ve learned one thing: paying for themes is usually worth it. Here’s why: It will save you hours upon […]

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How I Built a Church Website for Free: WordPress Tutorials

Last Updated March 14, 2009 by Matt 1 Comment

[box type=”info”]Use the Coupon Code “ChurchWebsite” when you sign up for website hosting through HostGator and you will get a 25% discount from HostGator. That also makes sure I get credited for referring you. Thanks! Find out more about HostGator.[/box] I was planning on taking a break from this series until Monday, but I figured […]

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How I Built a Church Website for Free: WordPress

Last Updated March 13, 2009 by Matt 17 Comments

[box type=”info”]Use the Coupon Code “ChurchWebsite” when you sign up for website hosting through HostGator and you will get a 25% discount from HostGator. That also makes sure I get credited for referring you. Thanks! Find out more about HostGator.[/box] WordPress Overview [NOTE: If you are absolutely a complete novice to websites or self-hosted platforms, […]

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Best Youth Ministry Books

These are the books that will completely change the way you think about youth ministry, for the better. Links are to my reviews of each book.

Teen 2.0 by Robert Epstein

A psychologist makes you question every assumption you have about adolescence.

Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry by Andrew Root

Why build relationships? Root’s answer will surprise you.

Best Youth Ministry Books: Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher

Yesterday I finally read Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher, and since I’m one of the latecomers to the conversation I won’t summarize the book too much. Marko has linked to tons of reviews on his blog if you are interested in more in-depth summaries. If you are fairly in-tune with a lot of the […]

Best Youth Ministry Books: Postmodern Youth Ministry

Postmodern Youth Ministry by Tony Jones is the book I would recommend to youth ministers if they could just read one youth ministry book. I first read the book in my Foundations and Practices of Youth Ministry class at John Brown University. After the preface to the book there is a page titled, “The Day […]

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