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Church Tech Snack Pack #220


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Snack Pack Time! In this week's Snack Pack we have the world's first foldable phone, a library in a tree, hand sanitizer in fog machines, and some other stuff too! Find something to snack on this Friday! ... Read More

Should Churches Do Hashtags?


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A year and half ago, John Crist made a hilarious YouTube video talking about how ridiculous wedding hashtags are. If you haven't seen it, I put it on the post at the bottom of this page. But it got me thinking, should churches actually take time to have a church hashtag? This is not the first time we have written about the topic. Go search for hashtags on ChurchMag and you will find 180 blog articles with the word hashtag in the title. We even have a podcast episode about it, back when Phil was ... Read More

Create A Custom, Tailored Bible Reading Plan for This Year


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It's a New Year, and another chance to read the Bible all the way through. Yes, you don't have to wait for a new year and you could start at any time, but the New Year can help act as a prompt to get going so why not take advantage of that. The only problem is which plan should you choose? There are so many different ones with advantages and disadvantages. The whole Bible in a year vs part of the Bible; One long reading a day vs readings from different sections of the Bible; ... Read More

Switching To Long-Form Writing


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If you have been around ChurchMag for a while, you may have noticed a changing emphasis in the last year on different kinds of writing. When ChurchMag was in its hay day of 2-4 posts a day, sometimes many more than that, we were getting a lot of short-form articles. If you are dedicated to looking at our content daily, we still have that once or twice a week. But we have been switching to long-form content more consistently. We want to be an authority to writing, and that doesn't happen in ... Read More

Having Manners, Even With Technology


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I just finished having a conversation with my 6-year-old son about having good manners. But his generation offers a unique concept. He was making fun of a girl's writing on a video and his comment was "she can't hear me." Now take this to the next level of text-based communication or video gaming. If you are playing single player and clearly dominating easy mode, can you mock them? What about robots or Alexa, should we say please and thank you to them? ... Read More

Forest App [Saturday Morning Review]


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Recently, I've been feeling more distracted by my phone and social media noise. This led to me finally giving in and trying Forest app as one tool to help and I have to say I've been impressed. It's really helped me adapt more "Deep Work" principles that I had gotten worse at. So here's a quick review of Forest app and why you should consider giving it a go. ... Read More

A New Chapter at ChurchMag


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I've tried writing this several times and I can't put it off any longer. I've wanted to convey and express myself to the fullest, but in an effort to say everything "just right," I've put it off for far too long. So here goes: ... Read More

Church Tech Snack Pack #219


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Happy first-Friday-of-2019! From the sci-fi-ish news of our health care and tech company worlds colliding, to magical frozen winter bubbles, to the dangers of setting New Year resolutions, and more for the first Snack Pack of 2019! ... Read More

Christian Gaming Streamers


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You probably have heard by now that online gaming is a big deal. It honestly has been for over a decade starting way back with World of Warcraft. Recently with streaming on YouTube and Twitch as well as the ability to monetize it, we have seen a surge in gaming where people are able to make it their full-time job. A couple of years ago, I had talked about how we could become online missionaries, literally raising money from Christians to be able to preach the Word of God to people online. ... Read More