February 2012
8 posts
Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 17th
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I’ve been thinking a lot about priorities and responsibility, and despite all of the best arguments, there is simply no escaping the truth that i am responsible for how i use my time. That means that being while being busy happens, there’s really no one to blame but me when i dont have time for the things that are most important. Like someone wise once said, saying yes to one thing...
Feb 14th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 7th
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“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you...”
– Dale Carnegie
Feb 7th
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Feb 3rd
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“In case it ever comes up, remind me to never trade faithfulness for approval. I...”
– Just a random thought that crossed my mind while I was walking to Starbucks today.
Feb 1st
January 2012
15 posts
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
2,141 notes
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So we’re starting a new series on Friday called “9 Stories”. The idea is that 9 people are going to share the major themes of their lives and how God has been shaping their hearts through tragedy, triumph, pain and joy. I’m going first, and the more I think about it, it’s probably the most important message I’ll ever share. It’s definitely the most...
Jan 27th
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“If you’re going to tell the truth, you’d better also make people...”
– George Bernard Shaw
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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“Last night I was looking at photos of my wife and kids (so many great memories)...”
– Me
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Beyond Cheap Substitutes...
I am SO going to get in trouble for this post. I already know it, and I don’t know why I’m choosing to publish it anyway… I’m just not a fan of knock-offs. There really is a difference between a genuine Made-In-The-USA Gibson Les Paul and a forged flee-market knock-off, made of spare parts that originated in Taiwan. There’s a difference between good ol’...
Jan 23rd
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“words mean more at night”
– Gregory Alan Isakov (I love this lyric. In my opinion, the heart condition of a person has more to do with their ability to hear and understand than the quality of the words that are spoken to them. So when we slow down, we often find more significant meaning in the same insignificant things…...
Jan 20th
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Jan 18th
Youth Ministry for the Long Haul (Chap Clark) →
Worth your time (especially if you’re just getting started in youth ministry). I promise.
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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What could you accomplish with an extra day?
So I’ve often asked people the question: “What could you accomplish with an extra hour in the day?” It’s a way to refocus a bit and get back to using the hours we have in a way that’s on purpose, and makes sense for where we’re trying to go in life. So today my question is, “what would you do with an extra day in a year?” How would you spend this...
Jan 1st
December 2011
20 posts
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Dec 31st
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Save some Youth Ministry cash... Just scored a... →
I order a lot of stuff from Vistaprint… business cards, postcards with our ministry logos on them (to send to students, leaders, etc.), and more recently, banners and large format prints. So I did a backflip on this deal: $70 Vistaprint Gift Certificates for $17 at Groupon (http://gr.pn/vyB7VF) If you’d like to stretch your budget a bit further, hopefully this’ll help. Just...
Dec 30th
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Tumblr Layout Change
Hey everyone… so while the Organ theme was pretty stylin’ for a while, it just became too impractical (and too many bugs). So hence the facelift. As of right now, there’s no Facebook Comments, but I’m going to try to bring those back ASAP. Thanks for understanding, hope you dig the new look.
Dec 29th
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The #1 Challenge of Youth Ministry in 2012 will...
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to 2012 and the “next” of youth ministry. While there are certainly many things we could do better, retool or rething, there’s one challenge that I think rises to the top and deserves our attention. Given the amount of material we’ve seen in 2010-2011 about the artificiality of and extension of adolescence, I believe that this should...
Dec 28th
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ListenMaycie singing “Jesus Loves Me” to me...
Dec 22nd
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Stuff White People Like... Ironic Tattoos →
Hey cool youth-workers, if you’re doing your youth-work among a trendy suburban-chic culture of teens, then this article is for you: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2009/02/10/121-funny-or-ironic-tattoos/
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“Well when I have kids I would let them do that…”
– Kyleigh, Age 5. (It begins…)
Dec 19th
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“Religion is what happens when God leaves the room and people make up rules to...”
– Bono
Dec 18th
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“When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We’re rich! But it...”
– Jack Handy
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I...”
– Psalm 139 (ESV) - A scripture and a prayer of Thanks to the God who really knows me, and delights in me anyway.
Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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WatchWatch
This goes out to all of my techie friends who make what we do look awesome.
Dec 8th
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Dec 6th
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By the way, THIS is why we do youth ministry. Thank you to every youthworker who I’ve had the privilege of working side-by-side with: the way you’ve loved and cared for the “Jonah’s” in our communities makes Jesus look beautiful. (YOUTHWORKERS: If you still haven’t seen the original video called “Whats goin on..” yet, you can get it here… I...
Dec 5th
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Dec 2nd
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“The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I...”
– Psalm 18:2, ESV A scripture, and a prayer, for today.
Dec 1st
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ListenCome Awake (David Crowder Band) This is from one...
Dec 1st
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This is my soapbox...
If I had to pick ONE issue to make scene about? Easy. A society that embraces the agenda of a corporation over the wellbeing of its children. Today greed, dividends and comfort of adults are prioritized above the personal wholeness and wellbeing of society’s most vulnerable demographic. Oh, and since when did politicians become experts on adolescent development? IRRESPONSIBLE. (It gets...
Dec 1st
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November 2011
20 posts
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Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
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“Just once I’d like someone to call me ‘Sir’ without adding...”
– Homer Simpson
Nov 28th
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An Open Letter to Parents, Grandparents and other...
I’m writing you this letter because I’m concerned. Recently I’ve been talking to a lot of teenagers who are feeling isolated, lonely and hurt. Some of them cut themselves, drink or take drugs just to numb the pain that they feel in their hearts. An astonishing number of them come from broken and dysfunctional homes. And while I know that there’s hope, love and comfort to be found in Jesus,...
Nov 24th
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“Salvation is a fire in the midnight of the soul”
– Jon Foreman
Nov 23rd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd