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In Love With My Youth Pastor

I've had a pretty big surge in visitors the past couple of days. About 4xs normal so I looked to see where these visitors are coming from. Most are Google searches but the key words aren't targeted to anything in particular, unlike Katdish and her pornographic cheese butler crowd. One of the searches really jumped out at me. "In love with my youth pastor."I don't know who came by from that search, and quite frankly I'm not sure why this blog showed up on that search. There are a lot of things I don't know about that post but the very idea needs to be addressed. I hope I don't have to … [Read more...]

All things foolish month

I dedicate April to all things foolish. OK that might be more or less how I dedicate most of my posts but I'm thinking of trying to be serious about the foolish. Weird huh? OK, so starting out I want to say that I love reading Proverbs. It is an interesting exercise to go back and look at my old Bibles and look at the notes I've written in them. What you don't write in your Bibles because you think it is wrong? Then buy a journal and keep notes in that. Also try not to stand to close to me while I'm reading my Bible because I'm likely to get struck by lightening eventually since that is … [Read more...]

Oh, Boy It's Chuck.

OK so I'm watching Chuck and it is already off to a great start. Scott Bakula is one of the guest stars (I won't give anything away by saying that) and very early on he gets the chance to say, "oh boy." That is awesome but only if you watched Quantum Leap constantly like I did back in the day. Anyone remember that phrase being used in every single episode? Yeah that was great.OK, I also want to say I knew it. I can't say what I knew because it is huge but I knew it so big.So anyone catch any quotes or something that I missed?EDITYay, This is post number 200. … [Read more...]

Good Day or Bad

I still don't know if yesterday was a good day or a bad. The day started off mostly good. It was beautiful out and I had received news that one of my Youth Leaders had taken her daughter to Labor and Delivery to have her baby the night before. I was sick but not too bad, just a head cold. We got word that the daughter (I should point out that the daughter is nearly my age and is married) had not progressed even though her water had broken over 12 hour prior but that they were doing well.Then we heard, after arriving at church, that the grandmother of one of my Youth had passed that … [Read more...]

A good leader comes last

80's cartoons taught some pretty impressive values about being a hero, a leader, and a good person. I think cartoons in the past decade and a half have really dropped the ball in this respect. One of the most interesting things I learned from 80's cartoons is that a good leader comes last. Watch the old GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.Time and time again the leaders in these shows must set aside their own desires, comfort, and even safety for the sake of their people. Some even go so far as to die for them because that is what a good leader does.Of … [Read more...]

First broken heart

My daughter has learned something new. We bought her a Baby Alive and she has to go a week without any demerits in school and clean her room everyday to earn the baby. Quite frankly I think the baby is a lot creepy, like Chucky. Watch the video and decide for yourself.All my daughter has been talking about for the last week is this baby doll. She got a demerit on Wednesday (the only one this week) and pitched a huge fit that really surprised her teacher. We were going to let her have it if she didn't get any more demerits (what can I say, I'm an old softy) and cleaned her room. Today she … [Read more...]

Geek project alert

I just found my next geek project (after the t-shirt cannon). I have some of the components already and I'm really interested in getting the other pieces for this. If all goes well I'll have a 32 gig solid state hd to run linux off of. It will be nice and portable as well as cheep and fast.Not into geeky stuff? You'll have to excuse me then because ... well I am a geek. … [Read more...]

Raising a 5 year old teen girl

There are a lot of really cool things about being a Youth pastor. I get to have lots of fun doing something I love. Not a lot of people can say that about their jobs. I get to help shape the lives of young men and women, even fewer people get to say that. I could go on and on but right now I want to talk about one major drawback.My 5 year old daughter loves the Youth and they love her. She likes to head in with my early on Youth night and stay with me late. She rides on the boys skate boards and hangs out with the girls. She is starting to talk about clothes and makeup with these girls. … [Read more...]

When a prank goes bad

So last night I tried to pull off a prank. Maybe things were just too complicated but the cops got involved. The basic idea for the prank came from Stacy from Louisville in a comment on Jon's blog in this post. She shared about a prank that was pulled on a pastor. It seemed down right funny, but I'm not all that into just taking what others did and replicating it.Instead I told my dad about the prank and told him I wanted to pull it on the Senior Pastor. He agreed to help by providing the tools and such and transporting them up in his Explorer. What he didn't know was that I set him up … [Read more...]

T-shirt canon

Later this month I get to have a "anything goes" service. I'm really excited and have been planning. I want to go over the top. If it gets me fired I want this to be something the community talks about for years. Actually my pastor is really cool about things but I'm going to try and push the limits because I can.One of the thoughts I had was a t-shirt cannon. I have several old youth group tees I'd like to get rid of. I looked into it and those aren't cheep. They start at close to $1000. Rentals aren't cheap either but I'll keep looking around. I am all about DIY so I looked to see … [Read more...]

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