Steve on December 16th, 2008

Below is an article I wrote for the Redemptive Presence, our church newsletter. Though it was interesting and worth sharing…
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Facebook. Twitter. TXT. Google. MySpace. Delivr. Digg. Blog. Del.icio.us. Flickr. StumpleUpon. RSS. YouTube. Snapfish. Pandora. Picasa. Podcasting. And [...]

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Last week I wrote, concerning community, “People are always looking, always searching, in the hopes of finding a place where they are welcomed, accepted and liked. People long to belong.” I wrote that as I was on a plane flying from Orlando to Philly. On the way back, I flipped through this [...]

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Steve on May 15th, 2007

Last night, Kim and I went out to dinner. As we stood up to leave, I saw a copy of the Wall Street Journal technology section. There, on the front page of the technology section, was an article labeled “How to Be a Star in a YouTube World.” Instantly, I was intrigued. [...]

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I’ve written and thought a lot recently about the Church and Web 2.0.  But I thought one specific story might highlight the opportunity that the internet affords to us as we seek to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to the nations.
<context>This is several years ago while I was in college.  Long before Web 2.0.  [...]

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Steve on May 12th, 2007

Tim Challies, by way of his interview by Adrian Warnock, makes a few observations on things that Christian bloggers are doing well, and a few areas where he thinks that Christian bloggers could improve.  Of those, one in particular stuck out at me as a astute observation.
Under “Areas Where Christian Bloggers Need To Improve” he [...]

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Following up on my previous article on the Church and Web 2.0, I would like to begin to look at some of the implications this discussion has/will have on the future of the way we do church.
One of the key dynamics of Web 2.0 services is that they interactive and participative. That is, the [...]

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