I’m excited to announce the launch of a new web site, churchmetrics.com, which I played a small role in designing. Built by the digerati team at LifeChurch.tv, Church Metrics is a free tool for churches big and small to keep track of their weekly numbers such as attendance, offering, and baptisms.

In early 2006, I said goodbye to Lifetime Guarantee Ministries after six years of managing their web site, lifetime.org. In those years, while attending seminary and studying subjects like Greek, systematic theology, and hermeneutics (aka preaching), I found myself instead devouring every article I could find on designing and coding great web sites.

I realized the other day that I’ve been creating designs in grayscale lately. They’re not completely void of color. They always have some dash or splash of color. Yet, I find myself gravitating toward base colors that are primarily shades of gray instead of color.

August is an exciting month for Cedarcrest Church. For a few years this young church body has existed as a campus of our home church Johnson Ferry Baptist Church.

This weekend, more than a thousand churches in the US and throughout the world will be participating in OnePrayer.

Yesterday a close friend and co-worker of mine approached me asking me if I could offer some very minor help to a friend of hers who needs her web site up by tomorrow. OK, it’s short notice, but I’d be glad to talk to her.

Do you have needs and issues in your life that need prayer? Of course you do. We all do. Unfortunately, our society prides itself on being self-sufficient. Having to ask for help—especially asking for prayer—is seen as a sign of weakness. Yet, we know we need to pray, and we know we need people to pray for us.

I’ve been in the web site making business now for almost eight years (_and I still don’t know whether to write it as web site or website_). It’s crazy how much it has changed and evolved. It’s a constant effort to be up on the latest code framework or programming language.

Phil Kopf, who owns his own structural engineering consulting firm in the metro Atlanta area named Kopf Consulting Group, was familiar with my work at Right From The Heart and contacted me about redesigning his company’s web site. Phil has worked all over the country and has won awards for his consulting in tilt-up concrete construction projects.

Today’s a big day. The dual announcements from LifeChurch.tv and from Terry Storch make it official. YouVersion.com has opened its big beta doors to the public. “What is YouVersion,” you ask?