A couple weeks ago, Granger Community Church started a series about dealing with Sacred Cows called “Cow-tipping”. Being a Youth Pastor that grew up in the Midwest on a cattle farm this got my interest immediately. I was expecting something along the lines of typical “your church is steeped in […]
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Morethandodgeball.com Guest Post
Josh at MorethanDodgeball.com is out of town, so he has had fellow youth workers writing guest posts. Mine is up today. GUEST POST: A Lot of Questions, Not a Lot of Answers
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What gets your Fire going?
Today, many are going to prepare for a day of financial gluttony (…after a physical one?) by letting the “holiday” of Black Friday overshadow a day spent best in gratitude to the giver of every good and perfect gift, God. Are we willing make the hard choices and show where […]
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Two Weeks in with Blackberry OS6
Blackberry is dropping some serious ad dollars to drive sales of the Torch/9800. The 9780 launched this week on TMobile. As of November 24th, those are the ways to officially get BBOS 6. Unofficially, there are a number of devices running OS6, including my trusty 9700. My thoughts: My experience […]
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Taking Care Of Home….
Yesterday, I went to a pastors training conference sponsored by Pastor Training Institute. This is a ministry started by the late Dr Adrian Rogers, and is now run by his sons Steve and David. It was a very good day of equipping and encouraging. One of the biggest challenges I […]
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What are you doing?
Earlier this evening, I posed this question on facebook and twitter “what did you do today that meant squat in the scope of eternity?” I had limited effect today in the office, but I enjoyed the opportunity to go help assemble Bibles that are going to be distributed to US […]
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Creating Content on a Tablet.
Tablets (iPads, Android Tablets, Windows, Etc) as we know them are created primarily for consuming content (so Steve Jobs says…). There are some slight modifications that can be made to use tablets to make them useful for content creation. For example, the ZT-180 based Android tablet our youth ministry has […]
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What Works? What Doesn’t?
As churches plan their 2011 budgets and ministry plans, we need to be willing to ask the tough questions about the ministries we support inside and outside the local church. Are they still doing what they are designed to do? Are we continuing that facet of ministry because its the […]
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The iPad and the Western Church.
Like him or not, Steve Jobs does what he does very well. His bank account attests to this I’m sure. When Steve was releasing the iPad, he made a statement that did not truly sink in until the other day. He made point that people are often more interested in […]
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Well Done!
I normally shy away from politics at MinistryPlace.Net, but today is an exception. No matter which direction you voted, you should be proud this morning. There were no riots in the streets, no violence against the newly elected or re-elected, and The voting system did what it was supposed to […]
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What a Deal! with Free Shipping too!
I was doing some printer shopping for our office and ran across this. Any takers? A maybe $300 printer listed for over 1 Million dollars. But hey, at least there’s free shipping!