What's happening at discussTogether.com

Text Messaging in the Church

2008-02-21T13:12:00.000-08:00

Mars Hill Church is doing something really cool and innovative as part of their Sunday sermons. During the sermon, people from the congregation are able to text their questions to the pastor, Mark Driscoll, so that at the end of the sermon, the pastor can receive the text messages and answer. His answers are on the spot, raw and spontaneous. This is a great way for the sermon to be interactive and to encourage people to actively listen and to think about what is being taught. Mark Driscoll does a great job answering the questions as well. Check out a few of these Q&A sessions :

Ask Anything Live - Dating
Ask Anything Live - Faith & Works
Ask Anything Live - Sexual Sin
Ask Anything Live - Grace
Ask Anything Live - Humor

Subscribe to RSS Feeds

2008-02-07T12:45:00.001-08:00

Played around with FeedBurner today and split off the RSS feeds into different categories.

http://www.discusstogether.com/rss.aspx

Hope ya'll like it

Flash Player

2008-02-04T17:07:00.001-08:00

We've received some comments regarding how we handle external media such as mp3 files or youtube links. So, we've put together a flash player module that allows people to hear the media while on our page instead of having to go to another site.

It's not pretty, but we are working on it.

Facebook!

2008-01-26T11:48:00.000-08:00

We've added a Facebook applications for friends to share prayer requests and keeping track of them. Great way to pray for your friends and letting them know how they can encourage you!

If you have Facebook account, add it now! http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2731285026

If you don't have Facebook, sign up!

Reface

2008-01-26T11:45:00.000-08:00

We decided to change some things around. Noticing the trend of asking people to type out their thoughts seem to be time consuming and too personal for many people to do that. As of the new year, we've switched it around and allow people to able to submit news articles, sermon messages and worship songs.

People are still encouraged to share and discuss. On top of that, the site focuses on prayers, especially prayers for what's happening in the world through news! When we hear news of what's happening in the world, least we can do as Christians is to pray for our neighbours, yea?

Everyone Votes! Do you have a contract with God?

2007-04-30T11:40:00.000-07:00

A new question has been posted : Do you have a contract with God?

Is there a contract - whether spoken or written out - that you've made with God? We've been challenged recently by some of our mentors to write out a contract with God outlining the terms and conditions of our faith. The contract is unique for everyone so we're curious as to how many Christ-followers have these contracts drafted up and if you are willing to share with us, what the contents of that contract include.

For us, it means surrendering completely to His will and giving up our personal dreams and desires for our lives if it is not within God's plan and purpose for our lives. To be living sacrifices in the way we surrender ourselves to God's will. To acknowledge that pain and suffering will be part of the journey and to expect God to speak to us in ways we can hear - if only we will sit and listen to His still small voice. We want to follow after Christ knowing that He will be waiting for us with open arms.

Now, what is in your contract??

Good Friday Service

2007-04-11T22:14:00.000-07:00

We hope everyone has had a happy Easter!

This weekend, we remember God's love for us as demonstrated through the death of Jesus on the cross. If you happened to miss out on Good Friday service at your own church, or if you'd like to listen to a Good Friday sermon message, we have great news!

We've posted the sermon from Cornerstone Christian Fellowship and Lighthouse Christian Church's joint Good Friday service on our site. Come listen to the sermon!

What do you say?

2007-04-06T17:59:00.000-07:00

We're continually developing new features for www.discusstogether.com but we mostly come up with these ideas on our own. We put ourselves in your shoes to see what might be valuable to you. Because this is a community-based site, we would love to hear some of your thoughts - do you have any suggestions on how to make this site better? Or have an idea of a feature you'd like to see implemented in the future? How about what doesn't work? What stinks?

Whatever your thoughts, good or bad, we want to hear them!

This Week's Features

2007-04-04T09:25:00.000-07:00

Check out the newest feature on the site!

We added this dynamic control to provide easy scrolling through the posts of the week. Now instead of scrolling down through the Recently Featured list, viewers have the posts conveniently displayed for them at the top of the page. If a post catches your eye, just press the Pause button on the dynamic control or if you've missed it, you can press the Rewind or Fastforward button.

Voting results are OUT

2007-03-11T01:50:00.000-08:00

First round of voting results are in! check them out at www.discusstogether.com/discuss/vote/ (you have to be logged in). If you still don't have an account, make sure to create one today! at http://discusstogether.com/discuss/newuser.aspx.

Everyone Votes! beta

2007-02-23T02:09:00.000-08:00

We are introducing the all new voting feature called Everyone Votes! You need to have an account on www.discussTogether.com before you can gain access to the voting area.

Once you are in, you'll see the current 3 active polls being conducted. Upon the end of the polling period, results will be compiled and you can find out about what the community thinks on different questions.

Since it's beta stage, we welcome your feedbacks and suggestions for future questions to take polls on!

Check it out :)

Who has posted the most?

2007-02-19T15:57:00.001-08:00

Just rolled out a small update on to www.discusstogether.com. Now people can see who has been posting the most in the community. We encourage people to share their scripture journals, book reviews and sermon messages that they loved, and wish others to listen to - This community is all about sharing, discussing and encourage one another in our race on earth for God's glory.

Pastors will appreciate your feedbacks and postings on this site as it'll help them in deciding what are some of the things the Christian community needs to hear, and even what do people think about their messages.

To get started: You'll need to create an account. Once you've got your account activated, you can start posting!

discussTogether Tools

2007-02-12T22:10:00.000-08:00

Added a new section for tools which will be an on-going section for us to introduce useful tools. It is our hope that tools will be used to encourage, support and motivate our daily walk with Christ.

The first tool is the "1 cor 13 generator". It'll generate a verse of reminder about what Love is and what we need to focus on.

We welcome ideas and also if you are interested in contributing to the tools, please email us!

Hello World!

2007-02-12T21:23:00.000-08:00

This is going to be a way I will be letting the world know about what goes on with discussTogether.com - what's new, what's in the works and what's being thought of etc. I am hoping this will also be a way to interact with the discussTogether.com community of users - to get feedbacks, opinions and thoughts.

So, come back here once in a while to see updates!