More and more churches are adding a whole new audience on Sunday morning through live streaming their worship services. Some churches haven’t considered the possibility or shrugged it off as being out of reach or unnecessary. Here are four reasons your church should be streaming worship services. 1. Live Streaming allows potential visitors to get…
I get a lot of calls, texts, emails, and Facebook messages from churches needing help. Often the help is needed right away. I don’t track this but one of the most common last-minute needs has to do with live streaming. There are two main reasons churches find it important to be able to stream live…
If you are looking for my latest equipment recommendations for sharing sermon audio, check out my page, “Recording Church Sermon Audio.” Now that sharing video online has become simple and inexpensive, I encourage churches to look into the possibility of sharing video recordings of their Sunday sermons online. However, some churches, for various reasons, aren’t there…
What started as one blog post about technology and pastoral care continues into part 5. I want to dig a little deeper into some specific technologies and how they might help us in our ministry of prayer and mutual support. I have already laid out my thoughts on why this is an important topic. In…
This post is part four of an ever-growing series on Technology and Pastoral Care. If you are just joining us, you may want to go back to the beginning. In my last post, I wrote about how live streaming worship services can be an important part of our life of prayer and mutual support. With the…
In part 2 of this series, I wrote about some of the underlying changes that are happening in our world, mobility and immobility and how technology might help us better face the challenges they present to us. How can technology be a part of our life of prayer and mutual support? As I shared in…
I wrote in my last post about the new opportunities and challenges we face caring for one another as Christians in this new digital age. The post mostly focused on Facebook and how it is changing the landscape of how we hear and share prayer concerns. Now, I want to look at some of the…
How is technology affecting the way we care for one another as Christians? Maybe you think it is not. Maybe you think it shouldn’t. Oh, but it is. The question is, “Will we choose to make the best of it?” James 5:14 Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the…
