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Amazing Love

When I heard this song for the first time years ago, I was really impacted by the words and they have stuck with me ever since. I’ve placed the lyrics below, but you can also listen to Chris Tomlin’s version here. “Amazing Love” I’m forgiven because You were forsaken, I’m accepted, You were condemned. I […]

A New Spin On A Church Wedding

I always love hearing about a church that is thinking of new ways to reach out to their members and their community. The NACBA Multibrief “Weekly Update” highlighted a story from the LA Times last week about Parkcrest Christian Church in Long Beach, CA. Parkcrest held wedding ceremonies and reception for couples who were living […]

Why Do We Try to Bargain With God?

Surely we’ve all done it. We pray those prayers that we know we shouldn’t because we think we can make some sort of deal with God. The, “Please let us win this game and I will make more of an effort to be a nicer person. Not that I don’t make an effort now, but […]

For All You Student Ministers…

This is a really cool video that we found about how a director at Shine Middle School Ministry created a life-size Angry Birds game for his kids to play. Thinking of a way to get people involved while having fun is great for any leader, but this guy also took one of the most popular […]

Sherwood Baptist Does It Again!

One of our customers, Sherwood Baptist Church of Albany, GA, has just released a movie, called Courageous, that opened in 1,161 theaters this past weekend. Despite its limited showings, Courageous still managed to come in 4th at the box office. Sherwood Pictures was started at Sherwood Baptist and has also been responsible for the movie Fireproof. […]

Shelby HQ Conference Highlights

“It’s the best conference I have ever attended” -Sally Stanley, Episcopal Diocese of Albany NY Check out our new podcast highlighting moments from the 2011 HQ Conference in Memphis, TN! You’ll see some of the fun and interesting things that went on, as well as customer feedback and what to look forward to in the […]

Shelby’s Info-Packed Webinars

Shelby Systems offers FREE webinars and low-cost Training webinars to keep your church up-to-date with how our software works and what’s new. All live webinars are interactive so the viewers can type in questions via an online tool and it appears on one of the moderators screens… somewhat like an instant message. We work hard to answer all questions […]

Are Contemporary Churches Getting Higher Attendances?

In an article from the ChristianPost.com by Jeff Schapiro, I was half surprised to learn that the more contemporary churches are seeing more of an increase in “attendance and spiritual vitality” than those that are sticking with more traditional worship services. In the article, Schapiro stated, More than four out of 10 churches in 2010 either often […]

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