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Posted on December 26, 2011, 11:16 pm
Topics: Media
When her parents are getting her ready for church, my little 3-year-old granddaughter asks, “Are we going to the show?” That’s what she calls church -- “the show.” At her church, the service is shown via streaming video to the nursery where she goes each Sunday. Makes me wonder, how will “doing church” be different for future generations?
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Posted on November 15, 2011, 12:25 am
What do you know about video? Well, if you’re Andrew Nutma, quite a bit. Andrew posted an entry in the forum called “Video Record 101.” You’ll learn about the low cost solution he found for video recording his church’s services. Has your church started video recording?
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Posted on November 1, 2011, 8:54 am | 3 comments
Topics: Media
I love technology. If you’re reading this blog, you may enjoy it, too. But, even though I appreciate the use of technology, I also appreciate it when people are thoughtful about its use -- or non-use. Opposite decisions about whether or not to use technology can both be "right."
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Posted on September 20, 2011, 9:14 am | 2 comments
Topics: Media
“What is the end goal of...design? Make sure you look good for God.” That's a quote from an article I recently read. How are you using technology at your church to “look good for God?” Many artists say that design should solve a problem, not just look good. What problems are you solving with the art in your church?
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Posted on July 27, 2011, 8:38 pm
Topics: Communication, Media
Livestream is a program for streaming video.
Livestream, formerly known as Mogulus, is a live streaming video platform that allows users to view and broadcast video content using a camera and a computer through the internet. -- Wikipedia
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Posted on July 17, 2011, 11:08 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Media
As Reformed Christians we have a Reformed "world and life view." We believe that God is sovereign over all the world and our whole life. It follows, then, that he is sovereign over technology, too. What does that mean in terms of how our churches use technology?
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Posted on June 13, 2011, 11:15 am | 6 comments
Topics: Media
Have you ever seen (or maybe performed) “the sound guy neck crane”? You know -- when the sound goes wacko in a church service and everyone starts turning around to look at the person running the sound? Poor guy. Working in technology can be a thankless job.
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Posted on June 6, 2011, 11:05 am | 1 comment
Topics: Church Websites, Media
Creative Commons--have you heard of it? I first read about it on the back cover of a Reformed Worship magazine, and I’ve been glad to know of it ever since. One place I use it frequently is on Flickr. It’s a great way to find images you can use with no worries about copyrights.
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Posted on April 26, 2011, 1:38 am
Topics: Communication, Media
It is common now for churches to use technology to connect within their community -- using Skype to visit with missionaries, social networks to encourage each other, electronic prayer groups, and so on. How does, or can, the church go even further with technology, and use it to do more than connect with each other?
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Posted on April 12, 2011, 1:08 am | 1 comment
Did you know that our denomination provides grants for smaller churches to use to purchase new technology? The grants are provided by the Sustaining Congregational Excellence (SCE) program, which “is predominantly for smaller congregations in the Christian Reformed Church in North America.
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Posted on March 27, 2011, 9:45 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Communication, Media
Is your church’s use of media connecting you with others, or cutting them off? How can we best use media to encourage our relationships with each other and God, rather than isolating ourselves?
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Posted on March 22, 2011, 9:47 am | 3 comments
Questions about how to record or stream worship services have come up several times in our Church and Web network. Many churches make audio recordings of their services. Cassette tapes were a common media for this for quite a few years, but now that technology is pretty much obsolete. Churches now...
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Posted on March 18, 2011, 12:43 am
Free software for working with sound recordings.
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Posted on March 18, 2011, 12:30 am
Article from "Technologies For Worship Magazine" on how to set up to make audio recordings of your worship services.
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Posted on March 6, 2011, 10:10 pm
Topics: Media
The peaceable kingdom is one of my favorite Biblical images. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could say the web could be an example of the peaceable kingdom? How awesome if we could say, “The world wide web is not the church, but the church is doing its thing there.” ...
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