Posted by Jerald on May 4, 2025
A carousel is a swipeable series of slides you can share on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, your church website, or in email. This format turns sermons into highly engaging church social media posts that are easy to read, visually structured, and widely shareable. Why Turn Your Sermons into Carousels? Boost Engagement on Social Media Visual storytelling through carousel posts keeps people...
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Posted by Jerald on Apr 8, 2025
In today’s world of nonstop notifications and shrinking attention spans, lengthy sermons can be a challenge, not just to deliver, but to land effectively. The heart of preaching hasn’t changed, but the context has. People are used to consuming ideas in quick, digestible pieces, and sermons that are focused and intentional often make a deeper impact than those that stretch too long. Short doesn’t...
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Posted by Carter Wiley on Feb 13, 2025
How to Make Your Sermon’s Meaning Clearer and More Impactful In today’s digital world, your sermon’s impact doesn’t have to end on Sunday morning. Churches now have powerful tools to extend their message all week long, reaching people where they are—on social media, in small groups, and through personal devotionals. Let’s explore how you can make your...
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Posted by Carter Wiley on Jan 30, 2025
As I’ve discussed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, AI offers incredible opportunities to assist church leaders in the ministry functions of the local church. In Part 3 I began to discuss the ethical considerations of AI use in ministry. In this final installment, I want to offer cautions and opportunities for consideration for how church leaders should (and should not) integrate AI in...
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Posted by Carter Wiley on Jan 30, 2025
As I’ve discussed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, AI offers incredible opportunities to assist church leaders in the ministry functions of the local church. Some argue that AI application in ministry is dangerous––that in a society already disconnected and isolated from one another, AI can create an unhealthy chasm between church leader and church people. Similarly, there is a great...
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Posted by Carter Wiley on Jan 29, 2025
AI has been around for a while, even though you may have noticed it recently. The term was coined all the way back in 1956 at the Dartmouth University Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. It’s used by college students employing spellcheck and grammar check in Microsoft Word, anyone talking to Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant, and has helped in medical diagnoses for years. Recently,...
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