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Call to arms … pens … well keys

I am a pretty busy person. Most of my regular readers know that I am a husband, father of 4 children, youth pastor, founding member of a coalition of youth ministers, and officer of Community Family Life Ministries. I do a lot of other things too. One of the bigger things is the Warren County Coalition. I am on the board for this community groups and volunteer for a lot of different things they do. The WCC does a lot of things for students and their families in our community. Much of what they do is driven by the grants they are able to get. They spend much of their efforts in two fronts. … [Read more...]

Buying Sex

They say "sex sells" and it seems that was the theme of the Super Bowl ads last night. There were two different Go Daddy commercials where women were showing off their bodies to sell web services. There was a cell phone commercial featuring Megan Fox taking a bath. There were several other commercials involving people in various stages of undress. Of course none of this is really new. Sex has been part of of the sales for as long as I can remember. It has probably been since the very beginning of sales history. Some half nekkid cave woman drawn on the community wall advertising custom stone … [Read more...]

Not a bad person

Yesterday I wrote about some bullying that happened in Youth this week. I don't know the real answer on how to deal with that but if you have a suggestion then please head over and let me know. I briefly hinted at my past problem with bullies. Back in school I tended to attract them. There were several features that caused me to get more than my share of bullying. I was pretty smart I moved a lot I didn't have a lot of friends (part of moving a lot) I have a very strong aversion to injustice I reacted There were certainly other reasons but these were the main ones. The biggest … [Read more...]

Why do people gotta be jerks

We got some snow Tuesday night. Schools were closed but things were pretty clear by noon so I had service last night. I ended up shifting the start of the sex and relationship series to next week though. Instead we just had a fun night. There were about 30 students there and we had snowball fights and other random things. At one point I had about 6 ganging up on me in the snowball fight. I had snow packed into my ear when I finally went inside a shook the snow off on a couple of students that wouldn't go join in on the fun. Later I learned about some things that really frustrate me. I have … [Read more...]

Becoming a better …

I feel strongly that we need to always be working to be a better ... Right off the top we know that we should grow in Christ so we can be a better Christian. I've written about this a bit. I also think that if you are married you should work on being a better spouse. If you are a teacher you should always be looking for things that will make you a better teacher. As a youth pastor I need to work on things to be a better youth pastor. There are a ton of resources online. If you are in student ministry and don't already subscribe to the newsletters from Youth Specialties and Simply Youth then … [Read more...]

Churches, we don’t need no stinking churches

I recently read some disturbing statistics about churches here in America. We all know that churches are closing their doors all across the country. This is pretty upsetting but not what I would call disturbing. This specific statistic states that only 15% of churches are growing and only 2.2% are from conversion. This means a lot of things when you follow the logic through. Now I'm not the best at math any more, I just don't use it that much, so please forgive me if I mess up on any of these percentages. If 15% of churches are growing this means that 85% are holding steady or losing … [Read more...]

Operation Haiti

I briefly mentioned Operation Haiti last week along with a tale of extreme vomiting. If you missed out we are donating half of the money spent in the snack shop over the next month and a half. We are also taking up donations for the Haiti relief effort. I have two really cool updates to this plan. Last Wednesday I asked a student to design a poster. I got an offer from one of the newer teens and Saturday she brought in the sketch. It looks great. More than that she told me something else she wants to do. She makes bracelets and is planning on making them with a cross and letter beads "O," … [Read more...]

Relativity in Practice

If you are a geek you are likely to get the title, if not let me say that among many things, Einstein's General Theory of Relativity predicts a shift in perceived time in relativistic environments. That probably didn't help you but I'm not really here to teach you science. Saturday morning we had out Angel Food distribution. We had double the orders as compared to last month and we were busy. I didn't get much time to pay attention to anything that was going on. I ran all over the whole morning fixing one thing or another. We didn't really have a huge number of problems, but trying to keep … [Read more...]

Epic hurl

Warning, this might make you a bit queasy ... or worse. Youth last night went well enough. We had 50 students but only 43 signed in. I'm redoing the sign in sheet now that we are doing small group break outs. I am asking my small group leaders to get anyone who hasn't signed in to sign in. The students seem to enjoy the small groups, but they have been wound up pretty bad. I don't know why it happens but after Christmas break and summer break. Anyways, I took a couple students home and when I dropped the last one off I started feeling ill. By the time I got home it was getting pretty … [Read more...]

The Power of Christ for the Hopeless

So last week was a horrible day followed by a great service. This week I was exhausted all day and felt I had a mountain of work to do but it was much better than last week. The service went great tonight. I did the second part in the "Power of Christ" series that follows what Jesus did in Matthew chapters 8 and 9. Last week was about the broken and diseased and this week was about the hopeless. We did small groups for the first time tonight. That went over very well. We had 5 groups with right about 10 students per group. I am planning a series on Sex and Relationships next month and the … [Read more...]

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