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I am more and more seeing a trend that started a long time ago in churches. It all started when I used to go out after youth group with those who were there. We would go to Shoney’s or some other low budget place and crash through there with all the energy we had pent…
I have just stumbled upon a new site and group that I am really loving called – Deadly Viper. It takes a bit to capture my attention but they definitely have. How is the best part of it. 1. Their site looks amazing. I know all the common wisdom about judging a book by its…
I came across this picture through Make Magazine’s blog. I have been thinking of various uses for it, then wondered what kind of captions I could get from the blog. No prizes for the winner of the caption, just some street cred. My favorite so far? A phone in sheep’s clothing.  1 1 …
This week I am hanging out with the Yamia team. Yamia (pronunciation unsure, might be Y? Amia?, or yummy-uh) is the team of people who direct the youth ministry for the Anglican Mission in the Americas. It sounds a bit prestigious when said that way, but it is really just some people who want to…
I was emailed a link to this (thanks Brian) earlier in the week and skimmed the highlights of the Evangelical Manifesto. My gut reaction was that I wished they hadn’t used the word Evangelical. I understand that the word Christian is so misused that it is almost pointless to use that title for followers of…
More than just a REALLY cheesy song, Greg Stier is tackling the now hockey phrase to redeem its meaning in the church – and doing a pretty good job of it from where I sit. The idea is as simple as it sounds (we are supposed to be both) but this is beyond that concept…
It’s no secret that I stopped paying much attention to George Barna a while ago. It began when he started trying to predict the future with the statistics he gathered. Soon after that, it seems he wrote a book (or at least had the idea for one) before he gathered the statistics, which generally leads…
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