About ZealForYourHouse.com
You've stumbled upon ZealForYourHouse.com, where holy cows make the best hamburgers. Our goal around here is to challenge churches to be all they can be - to attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Our part in that process is to provoke you to question your assumptions about how Church should be, and to provide you with a forum in which you can process and share your thoughts, reactions, and experiences.
The ZealForYourHouse.com web site is run by me, Adam. It is a labor of love, generating virtually no revenue and costing me significant chunks of time and a non-trivial amount of money.
For the time being, the site is a venue for me to publish all sorts of tidbits and for all of us to interact with them through weblog discussions (blogs). Expect to see writeups from myself and others with all sorts of themes and tones... commentaries, thought experiments, rants, media reviews, and whatever else catches my fancy.
Of course, I have much more planned than to be just another weblog. I expect to use the site as a testing grounds for all sorts of experiments into ways the Internet can be used to facilitate better collaboration and connection between believers... that will make both the minister and the Computer Science PhD in me happy.
Organization
For the time being, the site is just my personal project. It is not owned by any church or corporation, and it is not owned by or affiliated with any tax-exempt not-for-profit organization.
I, Dr. Adam D. Bradley, have full executive and editorial authority over what does and doesn't appear on the site. The site is not under the governance of any church or denomination, although I welcome and often defer to the input of my pastors and those with whome I have established trusting relationships.
Supporting ZealForYourHouse.com
If you find this site in any way, shape, or form useful, helpful, entertaining, or even infuriating, there are at least three ways you can support it.
- Spiritual Support
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Pray for me and for this project, that it would serve to strengthen and encourage many in the body of Christ.
- Logistical Support
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As much as I enjoy writing, I often don't have enough time to be constantly pumping fresh content onto the frontpage, so help from regular and occasional contributing authors would be quite welcome. If you like the vibe of what gets said around here and this sounds interesting to you, please send a writing sample to editor@zealforyourhouse.com.
- Financial Support
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ZealForYourHouse.com is a personal ministry project, and as such, it has no revenue sources to speak of. There are no obnoxious (but high-paying) banner ads, no membership fees, and I don't re-sell email addresses to mass marketers - which means I'm relying on financial resources from other arenas of my life to pay for this site.
You can support the site financially by buying CDs, DVDs, and books offered by Amazon.com through the Zealous Media section of the site. While we link to products offered by other vendors when Amazon does not carry them, only Amazon pays us a percentage on every purchase.
You can also give directly to ZealForYourHouse.com using Amazon.com's Honor System. Just use the Amazon PayBox to get started; you can be confident that your gift will be handled securely and that your identity will not be passed on to me unless you wish for it to be.
Let me reiterate that ZealForYourHouse.com is NOT a non-profit organization, and as such, any contributions you make will NOT be tax-deductible. Sorry, those are just the shakes for now.
Contacting ZealForYourHouse.com
Please send messages to the appropriate address - it makes my life much easier.
Administration
- Webmaster (comments about markup, rendering, usability problems, etc): webmaster@zealforyourhouse.com
Content
- Editor (individual submissions, applications for authoring rights): editor@zealforyourhouse.com
General
- The Management (i.e., me - general comments and questions): adam+zfyh@zealforyourhouse.com
Disclaimers
ZealForYourHouse.com is a free service; you are already getting many things you do not pay for. One thing you do not get is any sort of liability on my part for the consequences of reading anything found here or of acting thereupon, including the use or interpretation of any data, advice, suggestions, commentary, or anything else. Consider yourself disclaimed.
I am not a lawyer, CPA, psychologist, or licensed practitioner of any medical art or science. I am not acccredited as a professional minister by any nationally recognized religious body (and have little desire to become so). I am not an accredited educational institution, although I do have an accredited PhD in Computer Science. I am not an OEM or licensed reseller for any product, brand, make, model, or service provider. I do not have an endorsement deal with the Coca-Cola Bottling Company (but would love to talk with them if they are interested). I'm just a guy, offering my humble opinion for the sake of anyone who cares to read it.