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Have trouble reading your Bible?  Download these free audio Bibles by Faith Comes By Hearing at Amazon!  Each Bible is split into New and Old Testaments.  The free versions include English Standard Version (ESV),  New Revised Standard Version  (NRSV), Contemporary English Version (CEV) and the King James Version (KJV). You can listen to them on your computer, MP3 player, smart phone, and even create audio CD’s

Our church is just moving towards formal membership.  I searched for a long time for some good examples of membership transfer forms so I didn’t have to start from creating them from scratch.  I didn’t find any so I thought I would post them here.  Hope they help! Statement of Membership: We use this form for transfers to churches that are non-denom or part of other denominations. Transfer of Membership:

This morning, I was reading a pastor’s Facebook group.  Someone posted a question there asking about people’s experience preaching from an Ipad.  It inspired me to write this post.  I have used an Ipad for a year.  I absolutely love it.  Here are the simple steps myself and other use to do this. Here is what I do.  1) I create a manuscript in Word on my computer using 14 font. I personally create it in su

I was the king of receipt clutter.  My wife was always getting feed up with finding piles of receipts to turn into the church for reimbursement or keep for my housing allowance.  So when I upgraded to the Iphone, I was determined to find a receipt app that would help me eliminate this.  Onereceipt has helped me a lot.  IT IS FREE! One Receipt bills itself as the One place for ALL of your receipts! We keep all your re

I don’t know about you, but I am constantly keeping my eyes and ears open for good sermon illustrations.  This means every time I am reading something in a book or online, every time I hear a story or something or an illustration in a talk I am thinking I need to remember that. The problem is that my memory isn’t as good as it used to be.  I realized that I had to try and find a good solution to story the

At CrossWay Church, we have found a great low cost worship planning tool that has really helped with our worship planning and volunteer management.  It is called Service Builder.net  There are is a column of ads but they aren’t obnoxious and if you donate to the developer, Jason.  He can remove them. Worship Planning: Service Builder allows you  set up different service templates that automatically import your

If you haven’t heard, clouds are in.  We aren’t talking about the white fluffy things you see in the sky.  We are talking about online web-based file storage. Churches and pastors should really consider using them.  They save can save you from having to emailing files back and forth and keeping track of old which one is the newest.  You don’t have to use thumb drives to transfer files from your comp

We are a small church which means our volunteers work at least once a month.  In the past, we would create a schedule.  We would either ask people to email us when the can and can’t work (a ton of email to keep track of)  or create a schedule with out getting any input from them (They were responsible for switching if they can’t work). Both options didn’t really work.  Things got really complicated