Archive for July, 2007
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
If Ignorance Is Bliss…
…turn back now.
If you’re not familiar with Abort73.com, you should definitely check them out. Granted, if you know me, you know I’m absolutely pro-life, but…this is a site well worth knowing. It’s extremely tasteful and informative, with pages on the biological, political, racial, financial, and theological implications of abortion. Pretty intersting stuff…
Regardless of where you [...]
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
Quotable Monday, 7.30.2007
If you know anything about me, you know that music continues to be a major part of my existence on this little rock. It can express more in 3.5 minutes than many evangelists I know. It can elevate, inspire, energize, …or bring tears. I don’t subscribe to the idea of ‘christian’ music vs. ’secular’ music, [...]
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
Caffeine Jello Shots?
OK….there’s a little secret to surving student ministry that I’ll let you in on. How do we survive the summer full of Beach Break, Camp 7.8, Mission Trips, Middle School Mondays, Road Trip Tuesdays, Overhaulin’ Wednesdays, Wednesday morning staff Bible studies, Thursday night band practices…and still have some sanity left over for the wife and [...]
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Missing the Point…Part 1
This has been rattling around my head for several months now, and even though the summer life of student ministry is completely insane (Prozac, anyone?), I’m just about to explode. And, although our student ministry team is reading through McLaren and Campolo’s ‘Adventures in Missing the Point’, that’s merely been like the little agitator in [...]
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
The Day After
It’s been way too long since I’ve posted, but such is the life of student ministry these days. Camps at South Padre one week, VBS the next, Road Trip Tuesdays, Middle School Mondays, practicing with By Design, our Overhaulin’ project,….and trying to squeeze in some much-needed family time. (Did I mention that I’m also back [...]