Paul Clifford

Why do you lead or serve at your church?

• Its the right thing to do
• There's an opening and someone needs to help
• You couldn't come up with an excuse
• You're looking for significance

Our answer reveals our motivation and it opens us to a potential problem... burnout

You’ve heard of “preaching to the choir,” right? If you haven’t, it’s an idiom that means telling people something that they already agree with or should. Too often, churches make this and similar mistakes when getting their message out. We either “preach to the choir” or exclude people with our choice of vocabulary.

The great thing about technology is that while prices start high, they tend to go down and do so quickly. When I first started...

Ten years ago, I had discovered podcasting.  It gave me an excuse to drag out the Rio mp3 player that I got when I...

In 2001, I was part of a church plant and shortly after starting to attend there I went to Willow Creek Community church for...

Live streaming is one of those areas where people want to do it, but don’t quite know where to begin. It wasn’t all that long ago that I was in the same boat, but now that I stream live church tech training 5 days a week, I’m starting to get a handle on it. Last time on ChurchTechToday, I talked about streaming for almost nothing, but one of the commenters asked for a more concrete description of the bare minimum set up that I recommend.

A couple of months ago I started live streaming on my site five days a week.  Like many smaller churches, my budget for all this was pretty much nothing.  I’ve since talked to a couple of churches that are in a similar situation, but really do want to live-stream their services for shut-ins or military personnel stationed abroad.

Why do you serve or volunteer at your church?  Some people serve because it’s the right thing to do.  Others serve because there’s an...