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Church Marketing Scares
A Halloween round up of some of the scariest church marketing you've ever seen, including Star Wars, church signs and more.
Communicating Hate Sucks
Steven Anderson, pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., recently preached a sermon titled, “Why I Hate Barack Obama.” Whether you’re for or against President Barack Obama isn’t ...
How Bad Is Your Children’s Ministry?
For a church in Utah it was apparently bad enough to prompt a 7-year-old to steal the family car and drive himself home. The boy told his father he didn’t ...
Bring Your Gun to Church Day
Pastor Ken Pagano of New Bethel Church in Louisville, Ky., is encouraging members to bring their handguns to church for an “Open Carry Celebration” Sunday. The event will include patriotic ...
Lessons from Stale Lake
This video created by Eagle Brook Church in Minnesota watches like a laundry list of church communication screw-ups. The video, entitled A Visit to Stale Lake, positions itself to poke fun ...
Is Your Church Cooking Guinea Pigs?
You read the post title and thought I had a real home run metaphor for you, a lá Killing Cockroaches or Chasing Lions. Well, consider yourself disappointed. You might not ...
What if the Church Marketed Like Starbucks?
This has been floating around on various blogs, but it’s poignant enough that you need to see it or see it again. And there’s no more appropriate place than a ...
The Church Logo Scorecard
Jon Acuff at Stuff Christians Like has posted his guide to creating the holiest church logo possible. It’s very funny, as usual from him, and it’s particularly pertinent to church ...
Your Church Smells
Endorphin branding. Does your church do it? Maybe I should tell you what it is first. Per Newsweek (reporting a P.R. e-mail), endorphin branding is “the use of scent as a ...
Hire These Guys
You’ll need to wait until they get out of trouble with the law, but we’ve got some guys your church probably needs to hire. From March to May, the two ...
Praying for Rain on Obama & Saying No to Money
Here we have two case studies in why Church Marketing Sucks still sucks: Church Rejects Donation from Lottery WinnerThe title pretty much says it all. $600,000 could do a heck of ...
Jesus Goes Marketing
If you’re interested in spending a few minutes checking out some funny photos, you might want to see the blog at NEOchurch. Essentially, they dressed up like Jesus and took ...
Language for the Next Generation
All you church marketers have to stay on your lingo A-game. Your church service probably won’t attract many folks if you describe it as “groovy,” “neat-o-rama” or “super duper.” Mastering ...
When Church Marketing Sucks
Any church marketers out there looking for a job involving a healthy dose of damage control? Check out these couple of churches. Trinity United Church of Christ. Barack Obama’s church is ...
Obama Disses Church Marketing
All right, so it wasn’t that bad, and it’s probably a statement most of you would agree with, but here’s a quote from a Barack Obama speech (video or text), ...
