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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Marriage THEN sex

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This week I'm discussing "God, dating, love, marriage & sex" in a senior high scripture class and at youth group. As we ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Signage dangers

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Today I changed the church sign from what I wrote on it last week (I mentioned what it said here ). And... If I'm too brutally honest ...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Length limiters

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ARE YOU DISTURBED BY THE VIOLENCE IN THE BIBLE? WONDER HOW IT FITS WITH THE MESSAGE OF JESUS? FIND OUT THIS SUNDAY AT 6PM. Above is what...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Busy or Significant?

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With the lectionary spitting up the story of Mary & Martha over the weekend, someone mentioned a really good thought at a meeting I att...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The first division would be???

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Communion. Baptism. Church Leadership. Thee role of women within the church. These are just SOME of the reasons churches have spilt. ...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

To empower they must HAVE and KNOW

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As I've written here , one of my aims in ministry is to empower. But, truth be told, I also feel it is one of the weakest areas of my ...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Living the the shadow of...

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Whether it is factual or not, the myth states that the average youth minister will only serve at their current church for 18 months. I...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Emptying your cup

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With the school holidays winding up today I've spent the last two weeks knocking off a few books from the every expanding stack-of-books...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

The chain of communication

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I've had some brillant ideas. Not many, but some. I've also had some very, very ordinary ideas. Not a lot, but a few. No matter w...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Do you know your people well enough to pray for the ordinary?

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In church we pray for the big things. In private we pray for the big things. Because we know about the big things. We're aware of t...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Earn your way out

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Right now I'm on holidays so I've, naturally, been watching a lot more daytime TV than usual. Consequently, my lunchtimes are occu...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Testing the response

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I don't think it's too much of an overstatement to say that if you've never played a game of real-life Angry Birds then you'...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Worship or music leader?

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I've sung into a microphone during a church service exactly twice . And it was on the same day. So it's safe to say that I'm n...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Accessing the youth ministry database of resources

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As another term winds down my head is starting to turn towards term 3 and what we'll be doing in the children's & youth ministri...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Emerging from what???

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The emerging church is a... thing... thrown about regularly within "modern" church circles. The emerging church, according to Wi...
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Monday, June 17, 2013

The preaching stool

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When I changed the structure of the youth ministry at my home church, and my first ministry position, we went to a "normal" Friday...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Perceptioin + Time = Reality

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I've been told, wisely, that one of the most important things a youth minister can do is turn up on a Sunday morning, even if you're...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The art of the cancel

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Occasionally you'll need to cancel events. It happens. We've all been there. At times it'll be your fault. Other times it w...
Monday, June 10, 2013

As we heard from the sermon...

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It's not uncommon that after you preach (like I did twice on Sunday), either directly after the service or later in the week, that you...
Saturday, June 8, 2013

Everyone is on you side

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I've been a part of some hostile scripture classes, youth groups, kid's clubs, chapel services and seminars. I've stood in fron...