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[FREE] Blog Featured Images That Are Instagram Friendly


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Since the very beginning, I have been pushing my other website ChurchAndMentalHealth.com to be forward thinking. So when I knew I was going to do featured images with every article, I needed to decide on the ratio. But I know that the biggest reason for featured images is the social media platform you plan to use. And seeing as Instagram is doing nothing but increasing in strength as well as being image-focused, I decided to make all of my images Instagram-friendly. This allows me to capitalize ... Read More

Rethinking Your Church Blog [Podcast #255]


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Should your church have a blog? Maybe you already have a church blog -- so what do you post? This week we talk about the fact that some churches should consider not having a blog or rethinking their approach to content creation. If you want to join the conversation, let us know via Twitter @ChurchMag using #cmagcast, by email at [email protected], or tell us here and we'll share your comment, question, and thoughts on an upcoming episode. ... Read More

How To Get Stuff Done


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I am someone that loves to check off boxes and get stuff done. In youth ministry, I STRUGGLED with this because ministry with kids is always in flux and never-ending. Even students who say yes to Jesus need to get into discipleship and potentially student leadership. It was hard for me because I never could say I got stuff done. This applies to blogging too. It's all about productivity. Currently, I have to write an article for ChurchandMentalHealth.com by Wednesday because I have given myself ... Read More

Online Presence 101 Throwback: Basic Information


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Despite web development and social media advancements, some things will not change. These unchanging principles help us keep some important things in sight. In an earlier post, Engage, Respond and Answer, we explored the principle of engaging people. In this post, we look at another Online Presence 101 Principle: Basic Information. The number of rebrands and freshening up content doesn't change the fact that information is still important. ... Read More

Online Presence 101 Throwback – Engage, Respond, Answer


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"Having an interest in how churches leverage tech could've made me more sensitive." That's one of the thoughts I had after an experience with a church online. This experience? Because I couldn't find their website I searched for them on Facebook. I asked for service times until 363 days later. No kidding. Two days shy of a year, I got a response. I chose "response" because it wasn't an answer to my simple question: "What are your service times?" ... 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

Creating Content [Podcast #230]


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This week on the podcast we talk about the process of creating content. We talk about the process of creating content here at ChurchMag, but also the general concept of content creation. We hope you enjoy the conversation and become a part of your content creation journey. ... Read More

ChurchMag TBT: Jeremy Smith


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["ChurchMag TBT" is a 'Throw Back Thursday' on all things ChurchMag. Inspired by an upcoming ChurchMag podcast episode, we are looking back at personal -- and public -- throwbacks of ChurchMag.] My very first article on ChurchMag is titled Facebook Timeline: How This Will Impact Ministry. Ah... looking at this article, I notice so many different things. First off, I actually wrote the article nearly 7 years ago. If you look at all of my articles on ChuchMag, you will find older ones from when ... Read More

The Major Issue With Blogging in the Church at the Moment


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Blogging has really evolved a lot over time, especially since I first got into blogging about seven years ago. I remember following lots of blogs via Google Reader and finding great ideas and advice from people who were all running their own blogs. More recently though we’ve seen the move towards “professional blogging” and now businesses. The personal blogs have almost all but died out and I believe that is a shame. ... Read More