We built the site using Wordpress and slightly tweaked Michael Tyson’s Elegant Grunge theme for the look. Akismet (spam), Calendar by Kieran O’Shea and Google Analytics for WordPress (stats) were the plugins we used to run portions of the site.

Pastor Catt plans to update it regularly with his church articles, personal interests and thoughts about Jesus, the church, the nation and revival.

Enjoy!

As with most things, there are features I like and don’t. I could live without the ads and the silly games. The event options could be more open to ministry use. I use the wall, email, the mini-news feed, twitter and the photo application. We have also setup a group for the College and Career.

Thanks to Patrick and Stephanie who pulled me over the edge of doubt. Thanks to Dee for teaching me the ropes – especially the privacy settings.  You can find me using my church email address.

I choose to build the site on the Wordpress platform because of its ability of blogging (a prayer journey leading up to the conference) and custom themes over Adobe’s Flash and E-zekiel. The latest version of Wordpress, 2.5, was used with the following plugins: Kimili Flash Embed and Ultimate Google Analytics. If comments were open on the site, Akismet would have been turned on as well.

Brian and Bobbie Houston’s website was the starting idea or inspiration for the site design, my new friend Bryan Haynes pointed me in the right direction to embed the Flash portions into IE, and dhawker quickly found bad links and graphic issues. Thanks for your help.

Check out sbcpc.net and join us April 29 on the website for the beginning of the prayer journey leading up until the 2008 SBC Pastors’ Conference.

Side note: Sherwood Pictures will have a preview showing of Fireproof Sunday, June 08 before the Pastors’ Conference at 2pm. All attendees are welcome and encouraged to attend.

1) Teach the Word to your kids – Deuteronomy 6:4-5

2) Teach your kids the difference between right and wrong – 1 Kings 1:6

3) See your kids as a gift from God and see yourself as a steward of their lives – Psalm 127:3

4) Guide them towards godiness – Psalm 22:6

5) Discipline your kids – Proverbs 29:17

6) Love your kids unconditionally – Luke 15:11-32

7) Do not provoke your kids to wrath – Ephesians 6:4

8) Lead them by example – 1 Timothy 3:1

9) Provide for their needs not always their wants – 1 Timothy 5:8

10) Leave a legacy (yourself) that they can be proud of – 2 Timothy 1:5

10. Schedule personal and family events to conflict with church activities.

9. Don’t develop close friends in the church so there are no examples of godly friendships.

8. Look at your watch in church.

7. Talk bad about tithing.

6. Make sure the kids get all the homework done, get to practice on time but don’t worry about being on time for church.

5. When family is in town, stay home with them unless it is Mother’s Day, Easter or Christmas.

4. Don’t volunteer to serve or make any commitments to the church.

3. When the preacher tells you he expects you to come back on Sunday night and you don’t want to – change churches.

2. Point out all the mistakes that the preacher and staff make especially at Sunday lunch.

1. Whatever you do, make sure whatever you “sing” and “say” at church – have nothing to do with how you live rest of the week.

written by Michael Catt