The Digital Sanctuary

Just got a Facebook message from graphic savant, Barton Damer, that he’s put up a blog to serve those interested in using church media.  Although I’ve been a fan of Bart’s work for some time and even interviewed him here at The Digital Sanctuary in a three part series earlier in the year, I hadn’t [...]

Here’s the link to a brand new Fellowship Technologies tool called Retun on Ministry.
As always, Fellowship Tech turns out valuable and beautiful products to help your church facilitate ministry.   How can you improve what you can’t measure?
More on measuring ministry over the next 10 days but for now type in the name of any [...]

Church TechCamp launches today in greater Los Angeles.  Pasadena, to be exact.  If you can’t make it in person, you can check out the live broadcast here.  Read more about how it all got started.

Church TechCamp is a localized unconference for people of faith to gather and share their own best practices and “in the [...]

There’s so much exciting news in the world of the socially networked church right now, it’s hard to keep it all straight.  One of the most important pieces of information I got this week is the one above.
Check out the wording “not a ROOV Facebook app”.  Sounds more significant than just another app, huh?  Maybe [...]

EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.
How about considering doing things differently.  Non-traditional thinking can be quite liberating.
Do you suffer from what seems like a loss of vision?  Are you feeling uninspired, apathetic or dull?
Do you feel like your ministry is black and white instead of technicolor?
Sometimes we need a change of thinking to [...]

LifeShare Challenge from Cynthia Ware on Vimeo.
Be there.  To find out how you can “Share your Space” participate in LifeShare by visiting the LifeChurch.tv Internet Campus Blog and RagamuffinSoul.com for more information.

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Unprecedented.
That’s the only way to describe the collaboration happening this week between 2 of the largest online Christian communities.  The LifeChurch.tv internet community and the RagamuffinSoul.com community are joining forces for a pioneer, collaborative, week long challenge celebration bringing both believers and seekers online like never before.
Welcome to [...]

I just got word from Abraham Piper, author of 22 Words, that there’s an Open House for bloggers at this year’s Desiring God National Conference.  Let me pass the good news on to you.
Here’s Abraham’s invitation:
“If you’re a blogger or just like reading blogs, join us for a blogger meet-up after the Saturday evening session [...]

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Oakbrook Church used Coldplay’s Viva La Vida for a worship set song this weekend.  Then, they put their beautiful videos up on YouTube.  If you’re one of the people who’s saying “can they do that?” you’re not alone.  Or maybe you’re in [...]