-Why Blogging?: As an Additional Tool For Pastors

 Why Blogging? Because God and his son Jesus Christ need equal time in the blogosphere.

Pastors have so little real time to influence their people and blogging can extend and increase the opportunity to share the Gospel and the Christian world view not only with their own congregation, but also with anyone else who happens to come across the site. Best of all, blogging can literally be done at anytime, and the time investment is minimal compared with the possible results.

-Private Blogs for Youth Ministries and Church Groups!

 Blogs can be set up to reach only a private audience like Youth ministries and church groups. WordPress.com in particular allows for private sites for free. Groups can have there own calendar, communication, message, and feedback site. Passwords to enter as a reader/subscriber can be given to members only; while leaders maintain control over the site and its content.

-Re: Internet ‘Confessional’ Sites -A Potential for Ministry?

I had no idea that thousands of people every day were confessing their sins on the internet until I ran across it. Thousands apparently sense a lack and a need in their lives and are turning to the internet for answers and absolution?

-Why Blogging? -A Ministry or A Hobby?

 Millions of people are involved in blogging, look at blogs everyday, and search the internet. There are 10s of millions of blogs that post about religion and proudly wear the title of ‘Godblogs’ and probably even more websites that can be identified as religious.

Many of those sites are produced by the writers as a hobby, and then there are other sites which are obviously designed to be an internet ministry.

-Why Ministry on the Internet and Blogging?

Soon nearly every family in America rich or poor will have a computer or access to one and/or a tablet or cell phone with access to the internet. Internationally, the internet is growing at a phenomenal rate. As a media for ministry the potential is really unlimited.

It is really amazing how many people can be reached and how many nations can be touched by a very simple ministry located on the World Wide Web.

-What is RSS? And Why is it Important?

 Among the many confusing terms that you run into when you are just starting out in the blogosphere is “RSS”. Yet this term is of prime importance to understand if you are going to expand the influence of your blogging ministry.

What is RSS? Simply defined it stands for : Really Simple Syndication.

-Youth Ministry: "Online Missions Trip"

 According to a MinistryToday article written in 2009:

“On Feb. 1 youth groups around the world will be going on a two-week missions trip—from the comfort of their homes.”

A new ministry called ‘Online Missions Trip’ is encouraging young people to evangelize via social networking Web sites like Facebook, MySpace, and World of Warcraft. Tim Schmoyer, pastor of student ministries at Evangelical Covenant Church of Alexandria in Alexandria, Minn. talks about the new online missions ministry for youth:

-Writing Titles for Your Posts–Some Good Suggestions

Here’s a good article from DailyBlogTips: “Write Your Titles CAREFULLY and AFTER the Post

Daniel Scocco writes that titles are important and more time and effort should be given to composing the best possible headline for a post. It is a fact that most decide whether to read an article or not based upon the title alone.

-Comment Policy–Why it’s a Good Idea!"

Anyone who’s been publishing a blog for a while has received comments that are inappropriate for a Christian site–comments full of obscenities or bearing links to pornography–or comments that you would rather not have published on your blog.

There are always those Christians who consider it their mission to drop pre-written articles into the comment line of any post that comes close in anyway to their specialty issue. Mention ‘baptism’ in a post and you might receive an unsolicited 2 page teaching on "why infant baptism is a false practice"–posted on the comment line. You may even agree with the teaching but it really doesn’t respond in any way to the original post–what do you do?

-Getting Started: Choosing a Host for your Blog or Website

There are so many host sites anymore that is confusing to a beginner and even to someone like me who has been around for nearly ten years. To find the best current host for you site--'google:' 

best blog hosts or 

 best website hosts or 

top ten hosting sites.