How Facebook Can Help Your Church Grow

Posted by nwest on September 2nd, 2011

Here is an inspiring blog post by Bruce Moore from Christ Fellowship in Tampa about how your church can utilize Facebook! By the way check out our Facebook and website if you have a chance! We want to hear from you! And of course, you can find out us out on Twitter, @promoteministry and @mycteach.

How Facebook Can HelpYour Church Grow

One third of our guests at Christ Fellowship come directly through our Facebook strategy. In August of 2010, Facebook was nothing more to me than a fun novelty. It was the place to catch up with high school buddies and to keep up with people’s anniversaries. About that same time, God led my wife and I to rebirth a church in the heart of the city of Tampa with 1year2live. Pastoring a dying church and going without a salary meant that everything changed–especially my view of Facebook.

Our church with 1year2live obviously needed a new relational connection with the community. Thousands of people around our church had either written it off or had never even heard of it. That was when my entire idea of communication changed. We had to rethink our marketing like Disney, Coke, and Doritos had done. We needed a way to quickly get thousands of people to experience our fellowship even before they came to one of our Sunday gatherings or Feed the City events. Facebook allowed us to do this with no prior experience and without hiring a marketing company for the church.

When it’s all said and done no church can afford to have a social media presence that doesn’t translate into guests on Sunday. This may go against what many social media purest would suggest. They might suggest, “Build a relationship with your customers and over time they will eventually pursue your product.”

But, what if you don’t have time? Our church doesn’t and most likely yours doesn’t either. No matter what your communications, marketing, or advertising strategy, it must build relationships with people that will be guests. It must also build relationships with people that will come back again and again.

So at Christ fellowship we found the importance of tagging photos on Facebook from almost the beginning. Every worship gathering and outreach event is photographed and uploaded to Facebook. Normally over 100 or more photos are taken at each gathering or event. We invite people to go on our Facebook page and tag themselves and people they know. To tag someone you must be friends with them. So every week is an opportunity for people in our church to get to know other people they have met by asking them to be their Facebook friend.

When someone is tagged on Facebook their picture and the caption (your church name) is broadcast to everyone on their friends list. Every one of their friends can also share the tagged photo and then it gets broadcast to their new set of friends! The bonus is that when they go back to your FB page they can click “LIKE” and something amazing happens! When they click “LIKE” they are connected to your churches news stream. A good news stream can make them feel more engaged; a bad news stream gets you dropped! When people see themselves in a photo at your church it can remind them of the great time they had and it sends a subtle message to their friends that they would enjoy the experience as well. In essence they have endorsed your church. But this is just the beginning. Find out the 3 easiest ways to grow your church FB page on how to “Grow your Church through Facebook” Part 2.

Releasing Heaven on Earth

Posted by nwest on August 27th, 2011

This is a great blog post from our friend Glenn Bleakney. You can find out more about Glenn and his ministry, Awake Nations, here. As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebook and website! We want to hear from you!

Releasing Heaven on Earth

By Glenn Bleakney

On Earth As in Heaven It is truly amazing when you think about how effective Jesus’ ministry was while he was here on the earth. Wherever he went, He manifested the Kingdom of God in power. Truly all of heaven’s resources was available to Him and he lacked no good thing. Acts 10:38 informs us that, Jesus, in the days of His flesh“went around doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil” (Acts 10:38). What was the reason for His ability to minister so fruitfully to the needs of people? The same verse continues “…For God was with Him.”

Think about the following:

The Passover was at hand. Jesus required a venue to celebrate the Feast with his disciples. What did he do? Did he receive an offering and go and search for a room to rent? No! He waited on His Father to grant him the course of action He should take:

“Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed. And He sent Peter and John, saying, ‘Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.’ So they said to Him, ‘Where do You want us to prepare?’ And He said to them, ‘Behold, when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house which he enters. Then you shall say to the master of the house, “The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” Then he will show you a large, furnished upper room; there make ready.’ So they went and found it just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passover” (Luke 22: 7 – 13).

On another occasion Jesus was in need of cash to pay the required taxes to the state on behalf of Himself and his entire ministry team. Now the scriptures do not tell us whether Jesus had the money in his ministry coffers to personally pay the amount owed. All we are told is that Christ gave clear instruction to His disciples how to meet the need. “’…Go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you have opened its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for Me and you’” (Matthew 17:27).

On at least two other instances, Jesus Christ was able to feed thousands of people without having adequate natural resources. How did He do this? We need to understand that when Jesus was on the Earth, the works that He did were accomplished not as the Son of God, but rather as the Son of Man! In other words, He operated not as the God in the flesh, but as a man in the Spirit! “Now when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such power to men” (Matthew 9:8).

Christ limited Himself when He was on the earth. He put aside His deity and learned to walk as a man empowered and governed by the Holy Spirit. He was able to see into the Third Heaven where His Father lived and receive divine guidance and revelation. “Then Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner’” (John 5:19).

Another translation makes it even clearer: “So Jesus explained, ‘I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does’” (New Living Translation).

The result was there was never an insufficiency of natural or spiritual resources to accomplish the will of the Father!

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Does Your Church Have the Right to Be Heard?

Posted by nwest on August 23rd, 2011

This week’s post comes from a great resource to churches and ministries, Resonate or Die. As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebookand website!

By Steve Fogg

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I have been in a fascinating conversation on LinkedIn lately. I’ve also been on the receiving end of some unsavory commentary during that conversation.

Let me paint the picture for you. It was Thursday before Good Friday. I thought it would be a good idea to look at the cross from a design perspective and pose a question to a non-Christian audience: “Is the cross the most powerful and iconic logo/symbol ever?”

I posted links in some graphic design groups asking the question purely from a design perspective, not from a faith perspective. The conversation in the group was going really well until someone clicked on my bio and found out that I actually worked at a church.

The resulting firestorm that came out of this person’s discovery surprised and disturbed me.

Because I was a Christian, I had lost the right to be heard. My voice was no longer a voice of professional discussion, but of a religious zealot who was pushing ‘religion’ on an unsuspecting group and somehow trying to convert them by stealth.

I’m a guy with broad shoulders and I took the feedback and abuse and rebroadcast my actual intentions.

I’ve seen this happen time and time again and not just in the blogosphere, but also in the media. Here are some principles I think churches can learn when trying to engage in the media and the public space:

Be prepared to be shut down
No matter how honorable your church’s agenda, some people just don’t think the church has a right to be heard. When you stick your head out into the public space you have to be prepared for people to try and shut your message down.
Engage with those who are trying to shut you down
Try and reach out to those who are working against you. Explain what you are attempting to do and bust the misconceptions or bias’ they may have about your church’s message.
Be aware of people’s suspicion
Almost everyone I meet, as soon as I mention that I work at a church, they initiate the awkward silence followed by a generic, non-threatening, polite inquiry about what I do and people hastily try to turn the conversation away from ‘religious’ stuff. The average Australian unbeliever—and I would venture to say American unbeliever as well—is uncomfortable with Christianity at best. At worst, they are suspicious.
When your church engages with the media and the public space, make your agenda as clear as possible
Don’t have a ‘secret agent’ agenda of trying to convert a school by going in to help out. If you are helping a school out, help them out because you want to make a positive difference. People are smart enough to see through the bait and switch.
You have to demonstrate experience in the area you are talking about
When you engage with the media you will earn the right to be heard if you can demonstrate you are doing something about what you want to talk about. For example, my pastor earned the right to be heard in the papers talking about atheism because he was once, himself, an atheist. Our church is well received by our local schools because our chaplains and youth workers are already there doing some great work and making a positive difference.

Over to you: What do you think? Have you seen the shift in society’s response to the your church’s message?

Are You A Triple Crown Winner?

Posted by nwest on August 19th, 2011

This is a great blog post from our friend Alice Smith. You can find out more about Eddie and Alice Smith and their ministry here.

As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebook and website! We want to hear from you!

Insight from Eddie and Alice
For our wonderful Insight Newsletter family.

Have a blessed week!

Are You a Triple Crown Winner?

Alice Smith

“Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and charges into the fray. He laughs at fear, afraid of nothing; he does not shy away from the sword. The quiver rattles against his side, along with the flashing spear and lance. In frenzied excitement he eats up the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpet sounds. At the blast of the trumpet he snorts, ‘Aha!’ He catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry.” (Job 39:20-25)

We face a changing world at a break-neck speed. With technology advancing by the day, it’s easy to feel lost in a vortex of gadgets and information. Many of us agree we are nearing the end of the age. It’s true that past generations thought they were at the close of time, so let’s agree, we will never give up, back down, or turnaround from running the race for Christ. Even the inspiring true story of Triple Crown horse winner,Secretariat should remind us to press forward.

True stories inspire, challenge and encourage us. One story is about Penny Chenery Tweedy, the owner ofSecretariat, one of the more memorable Triple Crown winners. Although as Christians, we don’t gamble on horse racing, the truths behind this story remain ones we can learn. Eddie and I went to see the Disney movie, Secretariat, that is currently in theatres and we recommend you see this PG movie too. It will inspire you.

In the early 70s Mrs. Tweedy faced the hardship of following in her father’s legacy with the family farm. Penny loved horses and after his death she fought to keep the farm alive. Against all odds with looming death taxes and the “good ole’ boys club” of business, Mrs. Tweedy believed in a red chestnut horse called fondly by the ranch hands, “Red.” She nurtured, prayed over, and collected the best team of trainers for her special horse. No one, including her husband felt she was making the right decision to give all she had to prove this horse had the winning touch. But Secretariat had spirit. In every race he ran in the back of the pack, but this spirited horse never gave up. So much spirit that on the longest of the three races that determine the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, he left his contenders in the dust by six lengths to finish first. Altogether, Secretariat won 16 of his 21 career races, with three seconds and one third. This splendid thoroughbred was 19 years old when he died in October of 1989, and was buried in Paris, Kentucky. Many people say there has never been a greater horse than he.

My question to you is this: Are you a Triple Crown Winner for the glory of God? Maybe you’ve suffered loss, stand at the back of the pack or you don’t have the money to achieve a higher education. Be like Secretariat and run the race to win. The apostle Paul said, “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize (1 Cor. 9:24). Eddie and I want the reward for faithfulness. We want the prize for souls won for God, and we want to be Triple Crown Winners in the eyes of Jesus Christ. I’m sure you feel you want this too. more>>

Inspirational Coaching- post from Chip Brim

Posted by nwest on August 15th, 2011

Here’s a blog post from one of our ministries, Chip Brim. For more information about Champions 4 Christ – Chip Brim, please visit the ministry’s website:

http://www.champions4christ.org

Inspirational Coaching
Wednesday, Apr 08, 2009 4:13 PM

Recently the Lord has given me a new and deeper calling to coach directly to you, my Covenant Partner, through direct words of inspiration. We are all spiritual athletes in this game of life, therefore, we all need to be coached. Can you imagine a team taking the field in an intense competition with lots of pressure and NO COACHING! It would not be pretty! I feel that the Lord has a need for more coaching. Thank God for the teaching and the preaching and the prophesying. But we can’t leave out coaching! The Lord told me years ago that he is coming back for a Champion Church! Well, if we are going to be Champions, we all need inspirational coaching. I’m going to do my very best to get an anointed, faith-filled, inspired message to you twice a month to help you live in greater victory. This is my commitment to you.

Alot of people know what to do, but very few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action! This is why we all need coaching. First of all, coaches care about you and spend years focusing on a particular area of expertise. They continually make key distinctions about how to produce results more quickly. Once you utilize the strategies your coach shares with you, you can immediately and dramatically change your performance! Sometimes your coach doesn’t even tell you something new, but reminds you of what you already know, and then gets you to do it. We all need to have coachable spirits and we all need to be coached. Again, this is my commitment to you.

I will intercede in prayer for you, and I fully expect the Holy Spirit to anoint me with an anointing that is greater than your needs. Out of that anointing will come words of inspiration for you. So pay close attention to them. Treat them with great respect, for the anointing will be on them. After they have ministered to you, don’t just forget about them. Continue to meditate on them. Do what Paul said to do in Philippians 4:9 (Amp), “Practice what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and model your way of living on it, and the God of peace will be with you. Glory to God! That is exactly what we need – the peace of God! Champions always maintain peace because they have confidence in something and that is what I first will be coaching you on in our next locker room talk.

I believe that the Lord is looking for more giant killers! There are spiritual giants who need to be slain. No matter their size or how long they have been around, they MUST be brought down! We are the Champions who are going to accomplish this task for the Glory of God! I also believe that the Holy Spirit, the same One who anointed and helped David kill Goliath, will help, coach, and teach us through these sessions to be the Champions we were called to be!

I am charged with God’s power. I can hardly wait for you to read it. I believe it will be almost like coaching face to face in the locker room. Until then, remember that Candi and I love you and so appreciate you for your support and that you are a Champion 4 Christ!

Chip Brim

Underpromise and Overdeliver

Posted by nwest on August 10th, 2011

This is a great blog post from one of our favorite sites, www.churchmarketingsucks.com.

As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebookand website! We want to hear from you!

Seth Godin, one of our favorite marketing gurus, had some good advice recently. Underpromise and overdeliver.
This is a little different but particularly pertinent for the church. We can’t overpromise. We have life change, world change and miracles to offer. But sometimes we self-promote rather than message promote.
When we promise big and huge and spectacular and over-the-top events, but we underdeliver, the message suffers. So when it comes to your church, underpromise and overdeliver, but when it comes to your message, remember: no promise is too big.

What do you guys think? Is it better to underpromise? Can you think of any times that a church overpromised you, but underdelivered?

Why Social Media Is Good For SEO

Posted by nwest on July 30th, 2011

This week’s post comes from a great resource to churches and ministries, ChurchMarketing.tv. As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebook and website!

Why Social Media Is Good For SEO?

Authored by Arvell Craig

One extremely helpful yet underused aspect of social media marketing is the potential for increased search engine exposure. Most people do not realize it, but social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are a secret weapon in developing your organization’s SEO strategy. While it is true that your website and blog must be search engine optimized, good SEO practices applied to social media marketing can increase traffic to your website as well.

Some little-known facts about social media SEO:

Twitter and Facebook profiles often appear on page one of Google results for keyword phrases contained within the profile information.

YouTube videos with relevant keywords are now included in page one Google search results along with competing websites.

Facebook users often search for keyword phrases using the Facebook search engine; recent status messages including those keywords appear in the search results.

It is a growing strategy to use these different social media websites to drive more traffic to user profiles and primary websites through SEO optimization of profiles and YouTube video titles. The more connections you make on social media sites, the more traffic you can drive to your official website. Search engine users often click on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube videos related to their searches, even when they were not specifically searching for their information on these sites. Social media connects real people to the ideas they share, and will help connect more internet users to your organization.

Stay tuned for more on developing your social media campaign, and go tohttp://www.churchmarketing.tv for SEO lessons and resources.

Let Your Light Shine

Posted by nwest on July 27th, 2011

This week’s post comes from our friend, Daniel King. To see more from King Ministries International, check out their page on our website . As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebook and website!

Let Your Light Shine

By Daniel King
The Bible says in Matthew 5:16, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” Every Christian should be a shining light. Are you letting your light shine?

Recently, I had the opportunity to see one of the greatest natural wonders of the world. I went with my family to view Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. We started at the top of the cave and hiked down into the depths of the earth. As we hiked, the guides told us stories about the original explorers of the cave. These brave adventurers would venture into the dark with nothing but a tiny lamp to show the way.

When we were more then a mile underground, the guide sat our group down and told us that she was going to duplicate the original conditions the explorers went through. Our guide went over to the light switch and turned it off. Suddenly, it was totally and completely dark. We could not see our hands in front of our faces or the person next to us. It was dark!

After waiting in the dark for five minutes so our eyes would dilate, the guide pulled out a cigarette lighter out and told us that the small flame from the lighter was the same amount of light the explorers would have had. When she told us she was going to light it, I thought the lighter would light up her face, or perhaps the area around her feet. We were in a huge room and there was no way the flicker of flame would affect the darkness much.

But, when the lighter was lit, suddenly we could see the entire room. We could see the stalactites and the stalagmites, we could see the roof and the people around us. That one tiny light lit up the whole room!

The world is a dark place, but one Christian light in a dark place will light the entire area up! Evil is dark, but one act of love can make darkness flee. By letting our light shine, we bring glory to our Father in heaven.

For years, scientists have argued about the definition of light. Some experiments show that light is a series of particles, other experiments prove that light is a wave. Finally, there is one definition that many agree on. Light is the presence of power! Light is power, every living thing on earth relies on the sun for power. Without light, we would not be able to live.

Darkness is not an opposite power, it is only the absence of power. Therefore, if God is light, and Satan is the prince of darkness; God has all the power and Satan has none. Darkness can not survive in the presence of light. As soon as light comes into a room, darkness must leave.

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. This means that when you flip the light switch in your room, darkness leaves the room at 186,000 miles per second. When a Christian walks into a dark area, Satan must run.

Every lightbulb needs a power source. Every Christian also needs a source of power. Jesus promised, “But you shall receive power after the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and Judea, and Samaria, and unto the uttermost ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). The Holy Spirit is our power source and he gives us the ability to be a shining light around the world.

Oswald J. Smith once said, ‘The light that shines farthest, shines brightest near to home.” When we reach out to the lost, love the unlovable, heal the sick, and do good works; we are letting our light shine. We are supposed to go everywhere and to tell everyone about Jesus.

I challenge you to be a witness of God’s power in your home, in your neighborhood, in your workplace, in other countries, and unto the uttermost ends of the earth.

When light goes through a prism, it is split into a spectrum of colors. The white light becomes beams of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Light is actually composed of all these colors mingled together. Since Christians are the ones who shine God’s light to the world, the miracle is that God has taken so many different types of colors, types, and flavors of Christianity and mingled us into a single, powerful light.

Remember the song you used to sing as a child, “This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine..?” Well, this is a good time to begin shining. You can shine by helping with community outreach, going on a mission trip, or by smiling at a lonely heart.

The words of God are echoing across the centuries, “Let there be light….” and the answer rings ever louder, “…and there was light” (Genesis 1:1). We are the light of the world.

If this post impacted you, here are a few items that might help you in the future:
Children of Light – Larry Beam, eBook
T he Righteous Life – Jim Willoughby Ministries, Audio
C hanged At The Speed Of Light – Larry Ollison Ministries, Video

18 Word of Mouth Marketing Tips for Churches

Posted by nwest on July 20th, 2011

This week’s post comes from a great resource to churches and ministries, ChurchMarketingSucks.com. As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebook and website!

18 Word of Mouth Marketing Tips for Churches

October 17, 2006 by Marcus Neto

At a recent Word of Mouth Marketing convention several bigwigs sat down and came up with 40 ideas to boost word of mouth marketing in 40 minutes. As leadership in a church shouldn’t we be thinking about these same types of things? What are we doing to refocus our congregation on relationship building, evangelism or servant evangelism? What tools are we putting in their hands to make that happen? So often we forget that as leaders we can reach a few people, but if we empower our congregations they can reach exponentially more people. It’s how the church works.

So without further ado here is my list of Word of Mouth boosters for churches. Some of these are taken directly from the Word of Mouth Marketing Association list (link via Brand Autopsy) as they apply in both instances. And some are originals. I whittled the list down from 43 to 18 as I felt some of theirs were redundant or did not apply.

1. Identify the Connectors (see Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point) in your church and encourage them to do what is natural.

2. If you train your congregation in the ways of evangelism, they become better recruiters. Teach them about servant evangelism, enable them to make friends in the world, make evangelism easy. Bring it back to the way that Christ modeled.
3. Make it easy for people to find you (i.e. yellow pages, signage, website, free advertising sources, paid advertising sources).

4. Use interesting stories or testimonials to bring your ministry impact topics to life. Whether it be on your promo materials or on your website or in your services, oftentimes this has more impact than the sermon.

5. Encourage your church marketing evangelists to tell two friends about you, not just one.

6. Do something unexpected and generous for your congregation–send a free item (include an extra one for them to pass along to a friend) just for being a valued member of the church. This can include T-Shirts, Sermon CDs, Books that the church finds foundational, etc.

7. Do something unexpected and generous for your visitors. The visitors bag should not be a boring place. Your printed materials should be of professional quality. In the very least they should be printed in color and not just on colored paper. The material should be informative and positive in tone. And there should be a gift of some sort like a gift certificate to Starbucks or Chick-Fil-A

8. Create experiences. Your services should be experiential.

9. Be an evangelist for your evangelists. If there is someone you know who is making a difference in bringing people in to your church then point them out so others can learn from what they’re doing. You would also do well to praise them in front of others. Make them feel special, as they are.

10. Give your congregation business card holders packed with referral cards.

11. Ask–just ask your congregation to talk about you. (Duh!)

12. Leverage the content your church creates to make it talk-worthy. This includes PowerPoint slides, the bulletin, touch cards, visitor bags, outline sheets etc. If it can be used in multiple places then do so (i.e., web site, visitor bags, etc). And make it memorable.

13. Put your marketing collateral in something noticeable that gets people talking.

14. Make it easy for people to easily spread the word about you (Create a button for their blog or web site, a card or CD they can pass along to a friend)

15. Create clever 30-second viral videos and post to your home page. Poke fun at yourselves. Do something fun. Spoof a popular TV show. Talk about something in current culture. Engage the audience.

16. Let your congregation create ways to make it easy for members to show off their creativity. Use artwork by church members on Thinking of You cards, post cards, church bulletins etc.

17. Let your marketing evangelists know you’re listening. Comment on their blogs, invite them to marketing planning meetings or to your office for a VIP meeting to hear their ideas.

18. Join in the conversation (and start one if needed).

But then they remembered – Guest Post from Juli Mize

Posted by nwest on July 18th, 2011

This week’s post comes from our dear friend, Juli Mize. To see more from the Mize family, check out their page on our website . As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebook and website!

But then they remembered

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Juli Mize

They were in a boat out on the water when a sudden storm blew in. The waves were high and the wind got loud. They couldn’t just fire up the engine and power out of there. They couldn’t radio for the Coast Guard to come bail them out. They were looking at drowning in their little boat and they were afraid.

But then they remembered.

They remembered that Jesus was sleeping in the boat and they woke Him and He calmed the storm.

How many times are we going through a storm and fear rises and panic comes and we forget which end is up and we are running around trying to put out fires and stomp on spiders and we don’t remember that Jesus is there? Why is it so easy for us to go to panic mode before we remember Him? Why is our first response fear?

They say when a trauma comes, we either fight or flight. Well, you know what? I don’t want to do either. I want my first response to be peace. I want my first reaction to be to lay it at Jesus’ feet. I want my circuitry to be rewired back to the way it was supposed to be before sin messed at all up.

That doesn’t mean don’t use the brain God put in my head. But focus that brain toward the One who created it and not the nature of the world it was physically born into. You see, I get to choose which way I go. I can align myself to the world’s way of dealing with storms, or God’s way. God’s way to overcome is by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony (Revelation 12:11). If I take what Jesus did for me on the cross and marry it with an unshakeable knowledge of God’s promises to me, then I can’t fail.

But I have to remember.

I have to remember Him when the storms come. I have to remember Him when answers are hard to find. I have to remember Him when the path is dark and the way is rocky.

I want to always remember.

If this post impacted you, here are a few items that might help you in the future:
Charting Your Course Through the Storms of Life – Van Crouch Communications - Audio
D estined To Reign – Tom Brown Ministries – Audio
Faith Covenant – Jeff Backer Ministries - Audio

The Power of the Seed – King Ministries International - eBook

How Facebook Can Help Your Church Grow

Releasing Heaven on Earth

This is a great blog post from our friend Glenn Bleakney. You can find out more about Glenn and his ministry, Awake Nations, here. As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebook and website! We want to hear from you!

Releasing Heaven on Earth

Does Your Church Have the Right to Be Heard?

This week’s post comes from a great resource to churches and ministries, Resonate or Die. As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebookand website!

Are You A Triple Crown Winner?

As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebook and website! We want to hear from you!

Inspirational Coaching- post from Chip Brim

Underpromise and Overdeliver

As always, make sure you check us out on our Twitter pages, @promoteministry and @mycteach, as well as our Facebookand website! We want to hear from you!

Let Your Light Shine

Let Your Light Shine

18 Word of Mouth Marketing Tips for Churches

18 Word of Mouth Marketing Tips for Churches

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