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Understanding Viral Content Marketing - a/k/a Kingdom Building via Social Media

This infographic is loaded with great tips and tricks for create and circulating good content.  As Mission minded Gospel Spreaders, we would do well to utilize every tool available to make God known!

Snapchat - New Social Media Rage

Move over FB and Instagram, Parents, Pastors, Lay Leaders your youth (tweens & teens included) are now using Snapchat more regularly because it allows you to post a picture and set the time the photo will remain available. So you can get as 'jiggy' as you like because the photos are not supposed to leave a "permanent" record. BUT now snapchat is changing the rules for ONCE a day. If you're not on this, you might want to get an account to see what this part of the flock is doing!

The Daily News shared the following article regarding this new feature:  Snapchat gives users the option to view pics again

Read More Here: SnapChat - A Popular App for Teens But With a Dark Side

Don’t Block the Light!

Mark 4:21 (NIV)
He said to them, Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don't you put it on its stand?

The purpose of a lamp is to aid us in seeing in dark and dim places.  If a lamps’ light is hidden it is utterly useless.  For instance, have you ever tried to walk around in the dark, even in a familiar setting?  When there is no light in the physical, we fall, we stumble, bump our knees or stub our toes and boy does that hurt!  To avoid walking timidly through rooms bent over with arms outstretched before us we turn on the light so we can clearly see and thus walk upright with confidence.

As it is in the natural so it is in the spiritual.  Lamps are often symbolic of the light of God and His truth; which when applied helps us to maneuver in otherwise dark and barren places.  After receiving God’s truth, we are responsible for actively applying it in our lives.  It is not enough to hear the truth but to be active participants in living it and sharing it as well.  If we don’t and instead choose to cover the light with shades of envy, jealousy, unforgiveness, or dim it through lenses of complacency or rebellion we stumble and bruise ourselves unnecessarily.

So let us choose to examine ourselves daily to see if there is anything blocking God’s light.  For our Christian walk should not just be in lip service, but should be a lifestyle; one that like a bright light can be clearly seen by all.

Prayer:  Abba Father, search me and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me, and help me to daily walk in Your will and let Your light shine before men that people will see Your truth reflected in my daily living and desire to know You.  Amen

To God Be The Glory

The weeks of Advent remind us to set aside some time during the holiday season to reflect on our faith. The Bible readings we will read echo the Advent themes of waiting, preparation, hope, and the coming of the promised Messiah.

Jesus is the Gift by Max Lucado

Little Carol with the pigtails, freckles, and shiny back shoes. Don’t let her sweet appearance fool you.  She broke my heart!  On the day of the great gift exchange in my fourth-grade class, I ripped the wrapping paper off the box to find—stationery! Brown envelopes and folded note cards with a picture of a cowboy lassoing a horse.  What ten-year-old boy uses stationery?  There’s a term for this kind of gift:  obligatory!

I know we shouldn't complain, but don’t you detect a lack of originality? And when a person gives a genuine gift, don’t you cherish the presence of a gift just for you?  Have you ever received such a gift?  Yes, you have.  You've been given a perfect personal gift.  One just for you. God says to anyone who’ll listen:  ”There has been born for you…a Savior….” Jesus is the gift!

“There has been born for you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11”

To God Be The Glory

The weeks of Advent remind us to set aside some time during the holiday season to reflect on our faith. The Bible readings we will read echo the Advent themes of waiting, preparation, hope, and the coming of the promised Messiah.

I Don't Want Anything for Christmas.

Great comedic yet honest look at a very real Christian struggle -- Remembering, despite the glitz, glam and pull of the world, Jesus alone is the Reason for the Season!