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Fighting Fear

The next message in the series Meant for More &nbsp1  1        

Church – a semi-rant

I recently took a trip up to the great state of Oregon. This land is beautiful! Beyond the best poets, musicians and painters, this land is beautiful. While there on my visit, I got to meet a church that refocused my thoughts on life and reminded me of what church is about. They showed me…

Community

I have been a long advocate for non-conformity to the social networking trends of myspace and its clones. It just seems like false community. There are so many people out there on these sites that can’t see themselves clearly enough to even build a page that would represent them accurately, and that is if they…

Success in the Church

Creating Passionate Users: “Success” should not mean “Management” This article from CPU prompted a series of thoughts in my head that I just couldn’t stop. The premise is that we measure success wrongly in business by equating management and the proper flow of responisibility with success, when we ought to see success as the intersection…

Sermon Cloud

Sermon Cloud I just found this new site that relates sermons together in a cloud much like the new Web 2.0 stuff. Very slick and possibly a great way to publish sermons online and have others hear them. &nbsp1  1        

Oh, %$#@

Well, I did it. I did the typical youth pastor mess up. I said a bad word. I didn’t do it on purpose, and I did it in the context of quoting a song as an example of how we have compromised. As an example of that, I said the “A” word. It could have…

My first podcast

This is an old sermon I did from last year. I am really just testing this out to see if I can get it to work. The title of the message is “The Myths of Youth Ministry” &nbsp1  1        

Achievement is the New Idol

USATODAY.com – Gen Nexters have their hands full According to USA Today, achievement is the new measure of success for today’s teens. From studies of more graduates going to college and the higher rate of competition in schools, they draw the conclusion that success is measured more by achievement than by status, money, fashion or…