How to Share Planning Center Sermon Slides With Your Congregation
Getting the message, notes, and Scripture from Planning Center onto your people's phones — a few ways, with trade-offs.
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Practical, honest help on communications, leadership, worship, and reaching your people — for pastors, comms directors, worship leaders, and church staff.
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Church App Alternatives: Reaching Your Congregation Without an App
If most of your people never download the app, there's a lower-friction way to reach them — several, actually.
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Church Technology
QR Codes for Churches: A Practical Guide
Where to use them, what to link to, and the mistakes that make people give up before they scan.
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Church Technology
The Best Sermon Notes Apps for Churches in 2026
A fair, feature-by-feature comparison of the tools churches use to put sermon slides, Scripture, and notes on people's phones.
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Church Technology
How to Put Sermon Slides on Your Congregation's Phones
Six real methods churches use to share slides, notes, and Scripture on Sunday — with the honest trade-offs of each.
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Church Technology
Church App vs QR Code: Which Is Better for Sunday Morning?
They solve different problems. One builds a persistent member ecosystem; the other gives frictionless Sunday access. Here's how to choose.
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Church Technology
Church Sermon Notes Software: A Complete Buyer's Guide
The ten things to evaluate before you choose a platform — and an honest rundown of the popular options.
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Church Communications
How to Improve Your Church Email Open Rates
Better subject lines, a recognizable sender, and fewer-but-better emails do most of the work.
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Church Communications
What Every Church Website Needs (and What to Cut)
Your website's real job is helping a nervous first-time guest decide to visit.
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Preaching
How to Plan a Sermon Series (A Practical Guide)
A good series has a spine — one idea, built one week at a time, planned far enough ahead to breathe.
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Church Leadership
How to Recruit (and Keep) Church Volunteers
The ask is where most volunteer recruiting goes wrong — and where it can go right.
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Seasonal
Christmas at Church: A Communications Checklist
Christmas is the biggest guest weekend of the year. Here's how to be ready for it.
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Church Communications
How to Write a Church Newsletter People Actually Read
Shorter, warmer, and built around one thing — that's the whole secret.
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Church Communications
Church Social Media Post Ideas (and a Simple Weekly Plan)
You don't need to post more — you need a handful of good ideas on a rhythm you can keep.
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Church Communications
How to Write Church Announcements People Actually Remember
Most announcements are forgotten by the parking lot. A few small habits fix that.
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Discipleship & Engagement
Church Engagement Between Sundays: A Practical Playbook
Discipleship happens in the six days you don't see people. Here's how to stay present in them.
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Church Leadership
A Weekly Meeting Rhythm for Healthy Church Staff Teams
Fewer, better meetings — so your team spends its time on ministry, not status updates.
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Worship
How to Plan a Worship Set That Serves the Congregation
Building a set list is pastoral work, not just a playlist. Here's a way to think it through.
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Guest Experience
How to Follow Up With First-Time Guests (So They Come Back)
A gentle, specific follow-up sequence that helps a first visit turn into a second one.
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Church Communications
How to Build a Church Communications Plan (A Simple Framework)
A repeatable way to decide what you say, where you say it, and when — so nothing important gets lost.
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