After a couple of years of discussion we launched a YouTube channel for our kids ministry and I think you should do it too. Kids and young adults age 13-24 are consuming less hours of traditional TV broadcast content, and watching more online content, from sites like YouTube. In fact, 96% of that age group […]
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[guestpost] Below is an interview I did with from Jeffery Kranz from Disciplr. Jeffrey blogs and speaks about the Bible, ministry, and technology. He’s the guy responsible for getting the word out about Disciplr (hence this blog!), and spends his time trying to write words, drink coffee, and eat pizza as much as possible. Check
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My friend Jared Kennedy post a few links via twitter. I thought they were helpful so I’m passing them on to you here. They all deal with how to help parents when talk with their kids about same-sex marriage and same-sex attraction issues. Hope they bring encouragement and strength to you as a parent as
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Today marks the 600 year anniversary of Jan Hus. Most Christians today have never heard of Hus. He along with John Wycliffe were the original reformers of the church, and for that we have much to be grateful for. A full 100 years before the protestant reformation of salvation by grace through faith in
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Remember when you were in school and everyone would start talking about something and they all knew what it was but you? Yeah…me too. And then you pretended to know what it was even when you didn’t so you didn’t seem square or uncool? Yeah…me too. Well well lets put an end to that once
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Until 5 years ago I had heard of Awana but knew very little about them. Over the past few years that has changed I have had the privilege of meeting many of the Awana staff and team. Every time I leave a meeting with them I am blown away by their passion to reach kids
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One of the reasons I blog here is to be to others what I wish someone was to me when I started. One of the things that would have helped me when I started was knowing where to start. So this post is sort of beginners toolbox for anyone who is new, just starting or
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C. S. Lewis in “The World’s Last Night” said: “For my own part I hate and distrust reactions not only in religion but in everything. Luther surely spoke very good sense when he compared humanity to a drunkard who, after falling off his horse on the right, falls off it next time on the left.”
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One of the questions I get asked often and find myself asking myself as I get older is “What would I do different if I could go back in time and tell young Sam something. I started doing ministry right out of bible college I went to four years of bible college and was thrown
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“Creativity is not coming up with new things but finding new ways to communicate old things” Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. The older I get and the longer I do ministry the more I realize that creativity
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