My Anger Talk for Youth Group

With all that was going on, and the feelings that I have been processing through, I felt God asking me to work this one up. Part of this comes from a conversation at Celebrate Recovery (no details, just that we were talking about making amends and forgiveness, a couple of the chapters cover these) and [...]

While I have been away from Facebook

An interesting thing has taken place while away from Facebook, I have been reading. Not just the blogs, although since my netbook has been underperforming, I have been reading books. I finished Youth Ministry 3.0 and am over halfway through The Year of Living Like Jesus. Wow, and I have rested! So I haven’t fallen [...]

Teens and barriers

We have been seeing more of this at the youth group: For today’s teenagers, it’s less about breaking down barriers than retreating behind them. Anxiety levels are rising among the young, thanks perhaps to a mix of political events and “paranoid parenting.” Recent surveys suggest as many as one in five teens now suffers from [...]

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, [...]

Darker Side of Sin City

Nightline – Darker Side of Sin City This was pointed out to me by the XXXChurch people. There is a whole other world under Las Vegas. Wow.

Social Media and Spirituality

The Theology Of Twitter View more presentations from Steve Knight. Online Slide shows are a little hard to follow sometimes, since you don’t get the presentor with the presentation. However, I was able to get the gist of the this. Pretty decent.

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.

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