YouVersion Interactive Bible Community Launches

YouVersion, an “online Bible that enables community and collaboration like never before,” has officially launched.

I’ve not surfed around much (just created my account), but I saw that one of my favorite Bible versions is used — the English Standard Version.

Here is a description from the site of what YouVersion is all about:

  • Organize - YouVersion empowers you to organize the content that’s important to you!
  • Share - Simply share meaningful content with anyone, anytime, anywhere.
  • Community - YouVersion makes it easy to connect and collaborate with others.
  • Contribute - With YouVersion you have the power to share your content with your closest friends, family, or anyone online!

This online venture is a ministry of LifeChurch.tv. Learn more about YouVersion at the Swerve blog, including upcoming Bible versions to be included.

Why Church Leaders Must Blog on Their Church Websites

In a previous post, I talked about the only two things your church website needs – a good design and a continual stream of great content. I also said that the only two types of content you must have are:

  1. Upcoming events / news items, and
  2. Personal blogs of church leaders

In this post, I want to expand on #2 and explain why I feel so strongly that church leaders should be blogging.

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5 More Reasons I Love Doing Businesss, No, Ministry, Online

Over on my blog design site, I just posted 5 Reasons Why I Love Doing Business Online … but after reflecting on a couple of incredible months of business online and a year of blogging here), I thought I’d give 5 More Reasons Why I Love Doing Ministry Online …

Here they are:

1. I’VE MADE SOME INCREDIBLE, AMAZING FRIENDSHIPS

I count some of my closest friends to be “virtual” friendships … all of whom I’ve never had the privilege of shaking their hands. Read more