On this Good Friday, you may be able to go to church and go through a stations of the cross experience.

But this year, to open your eyes and see Christ’s work in a new way, how about trying a digitial walk through the stations of the cross?

You can take the time to navigate through each of 14 stations which open up individually with audio & visual imagery.

Pause.

Pray.

Move on.

Remember what was done on the cross.

This audio-visual stations of the cross walk was produced by Trinity Church in NYC — the ones who also put on the digital passion play – broadcast on Twitter this year.

There’s been a flurry of interest in Christian Social Media sites, web 2.0 and church websites.  The conversations are all very buzz-word heavy.

And at least one survey’s results have been published which draws upon data gathered in Jan / Feb of this year.

But what it all boils down to is very simple.  Does your website do what your visitors and congregation members want out of it?  How do you know what Christians want when they go searching for new sites on the web?

The answer is to ask.  That’s what the Churches, Christians, and Social Networking Study did.  They asked – what were the top things you wanted/needed in your church’s website?   How many of these needs is your current website ready to address if a visitor lands on your site today?

With the Amazon Kindle and Kindle2 blazing a trail amongst the digirati, it’s slowing becoming a standard device to carry just like the “holy grail of cell phones.”

Now Apple enthusiasts have added to their tool belt another super power – transforming the iPhone and iPod Touch into a mini Kindle device.

Amazon recently released a free Kindle-for-iPhone app or Kindle-for-iPod Toch app.  Download it and you can instantly begin to read e-books made for Kindle, but on your iPhone!

If you have the iPhone, you should get the Kindle for iPhone.  If you have the Kindle for iPhone app, you should get this (it doesn’t hurt that it’s completely free…kind of like something else that’s offered completely free to us which this book is all about, right? ):

LINK: Free ESV HOLY BIBLE For:

• KINDLE for iPhone
  

• or Apple iPod Touch KINDLE

• or AMAZON KINDLE DEVICE
  

• or AMAZON KINDLE 2 DEVICES

The Church is serious business.

Really.

According to the New York Times article, “Christianity, the Brand,” the merchandising of Christian values-infused products is officially huge.  Unless you have been sleeping under a rock the last several years, it’s hard not to notice:

“”The Chronicles of Narnia” took in more than $290 million at the box office domestically…

“The Passion” grossed $370 million…

Christian music now racks up $700 million in sales annually.

In 2004, sales of religious books reached $1.9 billion.

…Christian products will generate $9.5 billion in sales by 2010.”

The real significance of these numbers is that Christianity is a real influence in today’s culture.  Regardless of the debate on if the Church is doing enough to engage Culture, enough attention is being given right now in the stores, theaters and ever so importantly — in the press (more…)