“Piping” is a Scottish term referring to their tradition of having bagpipers herald the arrival of fresh haggis into the lord’s dining hall straight from the oven. Haggis is an …

An Introduction to On-Demand Streaming Three years ago, sometime after midnight on an otherwise non-descript night in December, I discovered on-demand streaming. It was quite accidental. I was on the …

You know, I was thinking… what would it take to stream our services live on the web? That question by our senior pastor is how one of my more interesting …

Wanda the Web site had been endowed with alluring JAVA routines and FLASH pages, and she had enjoyed a fun launch year attracting lots of hits on the superhighway. Although …

If the crux of real estate success rests in location-location- location then the crux of online success rests in prepare-prepare- prepare. This article explores some tenets affecting a religious Internet …

Religious broadcaster’s story Imagine you are a pastor of a church with a broadcast ministry. Your congregation helps you raise the funds to be on a local radio station. You …

Yesterday, on my morning walk, I met some newcomers to my neighborhood who said they were starting a church. They seemed to be sincere, godly people, and they were overflowing …

All computer viruses, without exception, are programs, just like a word-processor, a computer game or the application used by a bank to process electronic transfers. The difference however, lies in …

Introduction Budget restrictions often limit the level of computer technology available for everything from church office automation to Sunday morning worship. Now, even churches on a shoestring computing budget can …

Colin Benson describes his church, Friendship-West Baptist in Dallas, Texas, as non-traditional. “Our church has a very contemporary worship service with high praise music – like Kirk Franklin’s Hosanna. It’s …