by Paul Chappell | Jun 13, 2015 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership, Ministry News
There are some things you can’t learn via YouTube videos. Significant construction would be one of those. I mean, you could probably find a YouTube video on building a dog house, but beyond that, I’m not sure your best place for construction instruction is going to be...
by Paul Chappell | Nov 8, 2014 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
There are some social media users for whom the cute little twitter bird logo would be more accurately represented as the cannon-like self-ejecting fowls from the Angry Birds game. Like those birds, they hurl themselves into any situation that they perceive to be...
by Paul Chappell | Aug 23, 2014 | Christian Life
You know the traction-gaining tool for social media: hashtags. Whether it’s #WeAreN or #icebucketchallenge, people turn to hashtags to use their Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram posts to make a difference. Why? We want to use social media to effect change. With or...
by Paul Chappell | Dec 14, 2013 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
Selfie—it’s the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year for 2013. And it says a lot about the influence of social media on American society. But perhaps it says more about the narcissism of American society in general. Because in the end, our social media doesn’t make us...
by Paul Chappell | Dec 11, 2013 | Christian Life, Ministry Leadership
Do a word search in Scripture for “twitter,” and you’ll find nothing. Make it even broader to include “social media,” and you’ll get the same results. Yet every mature Christian understands that God’s Word has much to say regarding social media. It is our...