Wow … Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan … where Rob Bell is pastor … definitely has an out-of-the-box church website design. [It's fairly new, by the way.]

I expect this kind of unique design from something associated with Bell.

It’s minimalistic, very clean … and beautiful, in my opinion.

But I don’t think most churches could pull it off … to me, it resembles all I know about the church. It’s part of their DNA and represents them well.

What are your thoughts on the design?

[Found via Brenton Balvin]

Although I talk about using technology for ministry a lot here, I admit there are a lot of areas I’m still learning about and exploring … one of the latest is creating websites geared directly for mobile devices, like cell phone, PDAs, etc. And with the .mobi domain now available, I’m seeing more and more pop up.

Jonathan Petersen, Zondervan’s Director of Internet Marketing, was kind of enough to send me some information about a couple of their “.mobi” websites to review. Read More→

Check out the Northgate Pentecostals site … including their MySpace site, Pastor’s Blog and Save The Metroplex site, which I’m kind of wondering if Jay Jones had a hand in?

[Thanks to R Payne for the heads up.]

Kaleo Church in Houston, pastored by Bill Streger, will be starting a 7-week sermon series based on the book of Solomon on “Love, Intimacy, Romance, Marriage, Relationships, Conflict, and Sex” called “Between the Sheets.”

They’ve got one rockin’ website to promote the series and some interesting promotional materials to go with it.

Check it out at: WhatsBetweenTheSheets.com, including a MySpace site. Read More→

This post is another in the Using WordPress to Run Church Websites series on changing the post URL structure — called peramalinks — in WordPress.

Although this post is really for the series, it could also apply as a blogging tip as I use this philosophy of changing the default permalink structure for all the new blogs I set up. Read More→