from the clay

Everything

Posted by Brandon on Saturday, May 17th, 2008

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. God is trying to teach me something… something about myself and something about other people. From what I’m getting so far is looks like it is all coming back to one thing… Value. I’m seeing it everywhere and in all kinds of people… people I know and [...]

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God Still loves us even without a lint roller

Posted by Brandon on Monday, February 5th, 2007

I had one of those moments a few weeks back. You know… one of those moments that God decides he is going to teach you something and you are going to realize how little you really know or how little you remember. Yeah, it was one of those moments.
My fiance’ has this cat, that we [...]

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Archive for the ‘Ministry Ideas’ Category

Stock Graphic Designs you can use in Ministry

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Here is a great website for all of you who wish you were a little more polished on your graphic design skills. This company provides good looking stock layouts that you can purchase and use for a wide array of projects. I have a ministry friend who just used this company to purchase a [...]

creating a church website with an apple - Part 2 - iweb

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Yesterday, I gave a top ten list of why you should buy and apple if you are wanting to create a church website yourself. It might help if I give you some background as to why I decided to go on this “apple” tangent. Toward the beginning of the year, the youth pastor of the [...]

Create you next church website with an apple

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Ok, I don’t have any vicious (one of my youth has been using vicious instead of awesome… it’s been catchy) explanation for using a real “apple” for a website; unless you just want to take a picture of one. But I can tell you that the other “apple” will rock your world for creating a [...]

Free Christmas and New Year’s Graphics

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

PastorsPlace has been giving away free graphic resources to help churches. It’s free to sign up and you can download the images for free. They also offer a low price option to customize the graphics package to be specific to your church. When I say low price, I mean LOW. I saw one package that [...]

Who uses Email?

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

I was reading on our friend Bill Seaver’s blog today and he had an interesting post that referenced the number of teenagers who use email as the main method of communication to friends. The results were interesting, I have to mention I was not too shocked by them. You can read his post here. From [...]

Weekend Project: Wireless Network

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

If you are sitting around the house or at the church looking for something cool to do; consider setting up a wireless network. Don’t know how??? well here is a link to a Cnet.com video that will tell you how to get started. A wireless network will give you the ability to access the Internet [...]

Oaktreeidea

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

I ran up on a really interesting website today as I was doing my morning blog reading. It came from www.churchvideoideas.com , which is a great blog about everything involving church tech and more. So, the name of this interesting site… Oaktreeidea. The staff over at Oaktreeidea have put a vision into action; to create [...]

How Creative Are You?

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Have you ever tried to be creative when the creative juices just were not flowing? I’ve been there. I work in youth ministry, church software, blogging, and a whole world of other things that require me to be creative. I am on the side that if you are going to do something… do it to [...]

Creative way to reach out to Visitors!!!

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Well, this week I wanted to let you know about a really creative idea I have heard about, a few times, to reach out to visitors. I have a friend, who is one of our customers, that has organized a team of volunteers that every night after service drive out to all the visitors house’s and they [...]

Sunday School Curriculum and Resources

Friday, October 6th, 2006

 
If you haven’t heard of Serendipity House it is an excellent resource for Sunday School, small group, or general meetings. I found out about Serendipity House from a Youth Specialties show I was working at. They had a free lesson from their Flood series that included some of the best DVD video work I have seen [...]