Why I am Leaving Facebook for Now

I may do a more detailed post later, but for now this will have to suffice. I am also planning a detailed letter that outlines my decisions that lead me to leave Gaylord Community Church. That will be circulated to a few that I think need to know why, and if more want to know [...]

Change is Happening…and a Rest is Needed

The first major change in a long time has finally happened, the old house sold. Mary and I signed the papers on Friday (8/6/10) declaring the house is no longer ours. We now just own one house, the one in Boyne Falls. I praise God for that.  With that bit of news, there are some [...]

Which way to live, and/or?

I sometimes get the feeling that we could be doing better in church, than we do, and it is easy for me to go off to the extreme if I see something that looks “cool”. I have been tempering that as of late. I’m trying to moderate my initial enthusiasm for a program or speaker [...]

Random Theological thoughts…

With all of the things going on in my life, it is easy for me to be blinded to the things that God is trying to show me through my day to day routine.  With the arrival of Remmy Rozaland McNamara, I feel the need to slow down and look at the things around me. [...]

Overcoming the Youth Ministry Gap

Adam McLane over at Youth Specialities posed a question about a “youth ministry gap.” That is a gap between the youth ministry that is run by a paid staffer vs. the volunteer, and the differences between the two. He asks a good question about how do we bridge the gap. I left my two cents in [...]

As a Christian, I Dread This Time of Year

Okay, maybe dread is a little strong, but the way we celebrate Christmas in the U. S. to me is just wrong. What I mean is this, the church fights about the wrong stuff with this “War on Christmas,” stuff, instead of the problem that is more insidious. Consumerism. Henry Neufeld, a United Methodist blogger, [...]

Pregraduation prep in the fall

I watched one of the the Youth Specialities podcasts and they mentioned that we should start working with our graduating seniors now so that when they graduate next year they can transition into a college world easier. Interesting thoughts on how to do it.

Loving the Haters

Thought I would pass this one along. We all struggle with this. I do. The problem is that we begin to see the people we despise as not human, so we think we can treat them as something other than what they are…a child of God. Left with Questions.

A Secular View of Teen Sex

I usually read this stuff through XXXChurch.com, but I ran into this through another blog site. This secular view of the trends is what we have been saying has been happening. This is a secular site so I’ll give a warning for some of the language in the article. HOW INTERNET PORN IS CHANGING TEEN [...]

Why Church? – Real World Parents

Youth Specialties has a web site that is meant to help parents of teenagers called Real World Parents. As a step parent of a couple of teens and a couple of young adults, I try to read up on these things. I also look into this, so that I can pass along information to other [...]

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