It’s easy to chart what you need to do to improve your church. It is exponentially harder to actually accomplish it. On paper it may look easy to hit those milestones and measures, but when you throw in the personalities and agendas of all involved, things can get quite messy. […]
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Worldview Academy.
I am not a big “Camp” Youth Pastor. I do not often do camps, especially big, expensive ones. I am used to taking students to small, local camps, usually run by a local Baptist Association. In fact, that is what I am doing this year with the majority of my […]
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Jesus junk…
I ran across this in a catalog the other day. Note they are “salvation bands”,not silly bands….
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Back to Home…
It has been a crazy couple of weeks. I have a lot of notes that are turning into blog posts really soon… Last week was a mission trip with my youth ministry to Illinois. The week before that was WorldView Academy Leadership camp in Columbia, Missouri. There were two days […]
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Book Review: The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family
I have been working on this review in various forms of drafts and notes for about a month and a half now. I don’t often accept offers and open blog posts to do Pre-Release book reviews, but I liked the potential this book brought to the table. Why this book? […]
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An Interesting View of Evangelism..
I am reading and preparing notes for a review of the book – “The Sword of The Lord” by Andrew Himes and I ran across the following quote from Andrew’s Grandfather, John R Rice that he printed in “The Sword of The Lord” newspaper in 1954…. “There is a wicked, […]
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An Anatomy of Phishing…
I get several of these spam emails daily, of people trying to disguise themselves as someone they are not for the purposes of getting your banking information. Be careful, never click the links. Some can even execute code remotely on your computer, which can give you a virus, keylogger, or […]
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Get an iPad 2 for free. [Repost]
This is a repost with the updated information. Still need a few more referrals… I’m working toward a free iPad2 as a bonus from a site called youripad4free.com. This does work. So far I have gotten a 32GB iPod touch we gave away as a promotion in our youth ministry, and […]
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I want to make my iPad a….so this is what I do…
On Engadget today, they release specs on the new Crux Loaded case for the iPad. It includes keyboard, extended battery, and a trackpad (that Apple doesn’t yet support in iOS over Bluetooth). Interesting idea, but let’s look at the specifics a bit more… iPad 2- Minimum $499 (or Free !!!) […]
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How does your Church/Ministry handle deadlines?
I have done ministry in primarily rural and suburban contexts. I have noticed one common factor among the churches I’ve worked with – deadlines are not handled well, no matter how much warning they have.You can be a year or two out on a relatively minor issue, and it may […]
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A Word for Today….5/31/11
“For nothing will be impossible with God.” Luke 1:37 NASB Someone needs to see this today….
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Book reviews coming….
I have two book reviews cooking right now. They are closely related. One is new, one is fairly old, but they present two views on fundamentalist Christianity in America. It’s been interesting, to say the least.