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I just read an article on the Fuller Youth Ministry blog about the middle 70%. Their contention is that the thriving 15% get a lot of attention and the struggling 15% get a lot of attention, but the middle 70% don’t get much attention. There are most likely right about that, and I’m not sure…
I just read about this upcoming film and I think it is going to be a must see for people woking with teens. “Race to Nowhere is a documentary film examining the pressures faced by youth, teachers and parents in our achievement obsessed education system and culture. Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people who…
A great article on this over at iBlogo. Highlights: Turn off your TV Leave your house Know your neighbors Look up when you are walking Greet people Sit on your stoop Plant flowers Use your library Play together Check out the rest here.  1 1
I saw on Marko’s blog that he had a list of questions from a friend that was a really good list. People have often said that the questions are often more important than the answers. These were good questions. Several I really liked were: “3. What is the effect of facebook, social networking, and computer…
I saw this amazing TED presentation today (care of Presentation Zen’s Garr Reynolds). It was a Ukulele player named Jake Shimabukuro who made a great point about life in general. People just don’t expect much of the ukulele. Or the guy playing it for that matter. I thought, though, that this was probably true of…
I just read a great post by Seth Godin about how he treated his boss as if he worked for him. His idea was like this: “My job was to do the thing I was hired to do, and my boss had assets that could help me do the job better. His job, then, was…
I just came across the new Journal of Student Ministries rebranded as Immerse. It looks like they are off to a great start. They have a killer lineup of people working with them including some of my favs (Kendra Creasy Dean and Marko). I also a new look that blows the doors off of the…
I wonder how it became standard that small groups in churches decided to study a book together. It’s not that I think there is anything wrong with reading a book together, but with the decline in books on paper and the trend in younger people to only read what they have to and mostly (that…
I’ve spoken about discipleship for a while, and I usually begin most of those talks with two questions that qualify discipleship as the type of relationship that invests the kingdom in someone else through a close relationship. In other words, what Jesus did with his disciples. The first question: “How many of you have been…
I have been working on my first book (which I have been planning to make available as an ebook) for some time now. The process is not all I have expected, but the biggest challenge for me is the style of writing I want to use. I decided early on that I wanted the book…
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