I’ve been thinking recently about how to listen to sermons, and I imagine that both we and our young people struggle with this, too. I grew up in a tradition that valued expositional, verse-by-verse, 45-minute long preaching. These sermons were long but pretty easy to follow. There was information being handed out, so it was [...]
When God called Jeremiah to be a prophet, Jeremiah thought he was far too young to do what God had asked him to do. God’s response to him was this: “…do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ …Now I have put my words in your mouth.’” (Jeremiah 1:9 NIV). Several hundred years later, we [...]
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“I heard an interview with Peter O’Toole. He had a new movie last year. In the film he quotes a Shakespearian sonnet. The interviewer asked him if he knew that sonnet by heart and he said “I know all of them my dear.” Apparently he keeps a book of the sonnets by [...]
Check out this article from Mark Yaconelli
Author and former pastor Wayne Muller once said that in the United States,
illness has become our Sabbath. When a friend of mine was diagnosed with
brain cancer at 46, time suddenly became a precious gift to her. She stopped wearing a watch. She spent mornings lying in the sun and [...]
Hey folks, well, its that time of year, and I’m looking to book the fall youth retreat at Indian Creek Camp, the venue where we’ve had it the past couple of years. The dates they have available that are looking good for them are October 10-12, which is about the same weekend as it has [...]
Part One: Laying the groundwork
What basic understanding must be in place in order to provide good groundwork for the youth in that ministry? Throughout scripture we see examples of God calling young people to do his work. If God can use, and in fact, wants to use people of all ages, then we as the [...]
“Slipping through the cracks” is a cliché used for many things, but unfortunately it’s all too familiar in our churches. Mostly it’s come to define what happens to many kids as they transition out of high school youth ministry.
From The Journal of Student Ministries Read it all
Take a look at some of the upcoming or newly released movies next time you’re in a theatre. Fantasy books-turned-movie such as Eragon, Stardust, The Golden Compass and The Seeker have popped out in rapid succession, making me wonder if there’s something going on here that we should be paying attention to. While these movies [...]
If you are signed into wordpress while looking at a wordpress blog, then you’ll see a blue tool bar at the top of your page with a series of drop-down menus that allow you to access your dashboards among other things. The far right tool bar, as I just accidentally discovered, is labeled “blog [...]
