Paul Butler of the Moody Broadcasting Network’s PrimeTime America radio show recently interviewed me for a segment that aired yesterday about blogging for ministry.

Here’s the MP3 Audio of the 7 minute segment (3mb file) that includes an interview with Pastor Ron Daulphin and myself.

reCAPTCHA is a neat tool that protects your email addresses online from the spiders that crawl the web looking to include you in their Spam emails.

Here’s a description:

A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.

And here’s an example of how it works using my email address:

cory…@gmail.com

I figure that headline might get a couple more people to read the great question and answer with LifeChurch.tv’s Senior Pastor Craig Groeschel that Kent has posted today.

I love this quote by Groeschel:

It’s not about you! It’s not about marketing. It’s not about buildings. It’s not about sermon series. It’s not about the music, the lights, or the environment.

IT IS ONLY… ALWAYS… ABOUT JESUS!

He also mentions Blue Ocean Strategy as a resource with one of the biggest impact on him … I already own the book, just haven’t cracked the cover yet … great Labor Day reading now!

Recently, Chris Forbes and I had the opportunity to have lunch with Church Relevance’s Kent Shaffer. He spent some good time with us talking everything church marketing. And I think all three of us thoroughly enjoyed the meeting.

Anyway, I got to hear Kent’s heart and passion for ministry. He seems like (and in fact, is) a humble, caring, godly guy.

Today, he just formally announced his church consulting services … he’s offer a variety of options that your church might be able to use and tap into Kent’s experience and knowledge.

Disclaimer: He didn’t hit me up about posting this. I’m a CR feedreader and just wanted to tell others about his work!

Terrell just posted a list of the churches that will be represented at this year’s MinistryCOM in Nashville.

It’s pretty neat to look through that list and see who all will be coming.