I often hear about people who want to start a Christian-based blog. Maybe it’s one based on apologetics, it’s a daily Bible study, while sometimes its just personal musings on a subject. You know what I think when I hear that? Awesome. Even though it seems like there are already a ton of Christian blogs …
This one goes out to all the preachers out there (cue guitar solo). I know you spend a lot of time in sermon prep. Like, a lot of time. I know that most people joke about how preachers only work 3-4 hours a week (maybe double that for a Gospel Meeting — *gasp*), but I …
Websites have come a long way over the last 20 years. It used to be that you could simply write a lot of content on your website, and a few weeks later, portions of it would start ranking on search engines. It was a lot like the Wild West in those days. Very few rules, …
Topic Clusters. Your Church Website’s Secret Weapon. Read More »
Whenever we design a site, the website homepage is always the first thing we design. It sets the tone for the rest of the site; get the aesthetic or flow wrong here, and everything else will need to be changed, too. Because of how important this page is, we spend a lot of time experimenting …
Six Things You Need On Your Church Website Homepage Read More »
In January of 2023, the company behind ChatGPT (OpenAI) received a $10 billion investment from Microsoft. That’s a lot for a company that most people didn’t even know existed six months prior. What that investment represents though is the tech world’s belief in the future use cases of artificial intelligence. For years now, people have …
I Asked ChatGPT To Write Me a Sermon. It Wasn’t Terrible. Read More »
Your website is the first point of contact for anyone that is looking for more information about your church — or just a church in general. As such, it deserves some attention. As a digital marketing agency that centers on churches of Christ, we wanted to find out exactly how most churches were using their …
We Analyzed 53 Church Websites. Here’s What We Saw. Read More »
Nearly every church we work with at Diakonos has a blog. That’s by design. Very rarely will we ever work with a church unless they commit to having a blog of some kind; if we do, it’s usually because they have some other kind of marketing strategy that they really want to lean into, such …
I’ve seen a lot of websites. A lot. More than I care to admit. Sometimes I dream about websites. It’s not fun. But scarier than dreaming about websites is seeing a website that has terrible organization. Buttons that are out of place, menus that explode off the screen, and images that stretch to make a …
What is the Three Click Rule? And Does It Even Matter Anymore? Read More »
These days, I rarely meet anyone that thinks having a website isn’t at least a little bit important for their church. It meets people where they are, shows off a little bit of the church, and — most importantly — teaches the Gospel in a passive way. People can come, listen, learn, and move on. …
Content Marketing for Churches: 4 Reasons I’m Bullish Read More »
Writing for the internet is a lot different than knowing how to write in general. There are different rules because it’s a different audience, even if they wear the same type of clothes. Online readers are used to reading in bursts. With so much material available online – around seven million new blog posts are published every day …
