Pornography addiction is endemic within Christian churches. The numbers are as low as half of a given congregation and as high as three quarters of that congregation consume pornography on a monthly basis. As a technology pastor, I see my fair share of browsing...
I sit in on a lot of church staff meetings. Now, church staff meetings can be incredibly boring, 😴 but they can also be very eye opening into the management issues within a church. 🤔 The one I’m going to touch on today is that churches tend to exclusively...
Last week I laid out why I would be against setting up a traditional church service in any of the current metaverses and how I strongly believe that the digital almost always naturally spills over into the physical because of how we as humans are wired. That’s...
As a kid I remember watching the movie Lawnmower Man. It’s not a great movie, but it has become somewhat of a cult classic. I remember the representations of virtual reality and thinking virtual reality wouldn’t ever be a household thing in my lifetime....
Spam and phishing emails are annoying. We all get far too many and they certainly can be a waste of our time. It’s important to setup your email server to filter out as much as possible, but, for churches and missions organizations on Microsoft 365, did you know...
“Uhm, it was about cows or something…” I overheard her say. She had been asked what the sermon was about; it was the golden calf, I know because I had preached it! Clearly, despite a third of the room responding to the altar call, the point of the...
For many churches and missions organizations, it’s budget season! I know, that’s a weird thing to get excited for, but when it comes to ministry enablement these days, it’s the most strategic time of year. I won’t go into a full budget here,...
Digital ministry and leveraging technology for discipleship can be hard because it requires some paradigm shifts. In my experience though, that isn’t what causes digital ministry to fail. So what does? Not communicating the unique calling or discipleship...
As a Microsoft 365 expert, there’s a question I encounter a lot: “how do I share email?” I’ve been asked several times in the last week alone so it’s probably time for the annual M365 email talk. 😉 Now, the question of M365 email...
Standardized configuration of devices… it’s not the most exciting church technology topic, but it’s a church management fundamental topic and holds massive implications for churches. Not only does implementing configuration standardization reduce...
