Author: Scriptorium Admin
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Developing a Pod & Vidcast Ministry: Jeff VanderGiessen
While blogging is a great way to begin in the new media, new media technologies such as podcasts and vidcasts offer your ministry an opportunity to take pre-existing content, such as sermons, beyond the walls of your physical church. Jeff VanderGiessen of Mars Hill Church will give you an overview of the technologies available to…
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Design Desiderata for the Godblogger: Kevin Wang
Excellent site layout and design can be a great boon for a blog that hopes to build a regular readership and to have maximal impact. Design just is the marriage of form and function, content and layout. It can help you deliver your message more clearly and develop rapport with your readership. But, buyer beware!…
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Writing Well in the New Media: La Shawn Barber
Writing technique and style changes depending on the medium. Like writing a thought piece for a journal is unlike writing a thought piece for a newspaper, so also is writing a blog post different in style and technique as well as the expectation of the readers reading the piece. La Shawn will teach you some…
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Basics of Blogging: Dustin Steeve
Finding the Platform to Meet Your Needs You have decided to enter the new media and become a Godblogger, but you do not know where to begin; no problem! This is the session designed especially for beginners. Dustin Steeve will teach you the difference between the various blogging platforms and offer your insights as to…
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Identifying Impact In Culture for Christians In New Media: Joe Carter
Culturally concerned Christians have a plethora of issues upon which they could comment, but simply because they can express their opinion on an issue does not mean that they should. Joe Carter will help you learn to identify which issues you should comment on and how you can address these issues well through the new…
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Communicating Biblical Womanhood: Bonnie Lindblom
Ministering to Women Through New Media Strong forces in culture are presenting women with false ideas of beauty, happiness, sex, gender, and family. Thoughtful Christian women, especially those involved in women’s ministry, have the ability to speak against these false ideas. Bonnie Lindblom will share with women how cutting edge new media technology offers tremendous…
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New Media Ministry to the Myspace-Facebook Generation: Rhett Smith
Employing New Media Technologies Effectively In Youth Ministries The demographic which would benefit most from a strong Christian presence in the New Media is America’s youth. Many youth ministries have tried and failed to reach the youth where they are at by setting up websites which end up being either unattractive or full of out-of-date…
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Taking Your Ministry to the New Media: Mark D. Roberts
The Pastor As Godblogger Society is asking tough questions of the Church today—questions which America’s pastors can and should fearlessly answer. The new media provides pastors with the tools necessary to reach potentially millions of readers worldwide in an instant and, best of all, this can be done quickly and easily; no complicated programming skills…
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Pioneering the New Media for Christ: Al Mohler
Understanding the Impact and Opportunity that New Media presents to thoughtful Christian Communicators New Media technology is altering the way ideas and arguments are presented in society—this is significant, especially to Christians. Al Mohler will explain some differences between old and new media and exhort Christians with the opportunities that the new media presents to…
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Witnessing as a Spiritual Discipline
A Review of the Nature of Spiritual Disciplines In previous articles here on Scriptorium I have clarified the nature of a spiritual discipline and explained how spiritual disciplines, construed as training exercises analogous to those employed in getting good at golf, help to facilitate growth in the good life. I defined a Christian spiritual discipline…
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What Did Jesus Believe About Scripture?
As a part of our discipleship, we who seek to follow the Lord Jesus desire to believe what he believed. It would be odd for one to claim, on the one hand, to be devoted to Jesus as Lord, and, on the other hand, to simply set aside as false or irrelevant a view that…
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WWJD: How Could Jesus Do Miracles?
My conversion to Christianity occurred in November 1968. I was a junior at the University of Missouri, chaos was violently spreading across American college campuses, and it was in the early stages of the Jesus Movement. I came to Christ through the ministry of Campus Crusade and, upon my conversion, I became a pretty radical…