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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Opening up the kitchen?

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Last night, while a few of the young adults were discussing the evening service one of the guys said something about preaching which I'd...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Did you catch that?

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Every so often I get the twisted need to slip them in. I slyly insert them into sermons, chapel talks and scripture lessons. Last Sunday I h...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Limited arsenal

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A dinosaur. Brontosaurus' to be exact. They always go first. Then a stegosaurus. Perhaps a palm tree. Then a great white shark. Then a h...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Communervise?

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INCLUDING HOLY COMMUNION If this were on the sign out the front of a church, attached with the advertisement of a church service, then I don...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Invite or NOT invite?

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Today an interesting question was raised on this Facebook page. The question revolved around inviting people to church and why many (let...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Cyber planning

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Over the last few days I've been putting together a visual for my come-go-come 2012 youth ministry plan (I'll post about this in mor...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Ministry Mutiny musings

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After more than 950 posts, I can't recall ever recommending a book on this blog. Sure, I may mention a book if I'm reading it and it...
Monday, January 16, 2012

Public prayer spiel

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I'll admit... I listen. Kinda. I zone out. I wonder about the choice of words spoken. I sometimes struggle to personally connect with Go...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Chess ministry growth

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A ministry can move in a number of directions. Hopefully it moves forward. But every ministry is not meant to move in the same way or at the...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Own the room

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I like to be in control. I like to have things set up the way I desire. In speaker terms, I like to "own the room" (plenty of spea...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Success standard?

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Last night I gave a talk around the bonfire at the camp I'm currently engaged in (I'll write tomorrow about the... challenging... ex...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Make my body sing!

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I previously mentioned that I'm currently speaking at a camp. During my intro last night, my brief brush with television fame was mentio...

Container messages

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I'll admit... They are convenient. They are a useful size, portable and relatively sturdy. They are downright handy. Of what do I write?...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Generating cheesy consumers

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I give out a love of crap at my church. Much of it good fun. But in the cold light of day it is really useless, cheap crap. Useless, cheap c...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Not teaching vanilla

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Next week I'm giving a series of talks on Deuteronomy at a camp. As a speaker wanting to avoid potential awkwardness, I checked if the g...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Bible bites

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Since late September, I've been writing small thoughts about bible passages on Facebook called Tiny Bible Bits (which I wrote about her...
Friday, December 30, 2011

2011 Best of...

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Since I don't have enough hours in the day to do a best-of list on New Years Eve (since I'll be writing a series of talks tomorrow, ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Auditing

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So... What are you going to do all week? Like many youth ministers, I expect to hear that question a lot over Summer. Around writing camp ta...
Sunday, December 25, 2011

Why does Christmas matter?

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Today is a pretty big deal for Christians. But why? Why does Christmas matter so much? In short, Christmas is important to Christians, and a...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Virgin = Pregnant?

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I'll confess, the idea of a virgin having a baby is difficult to swallow. My folks had the "bird & the bees" talk with me ...