Stephen Baldwin will be speaking at our Generation Conference this July. Here is more information about him. Stephen Baldwin (born May 12, 1966 in Massapequa, New York) is an American actor, best known for his role in the 1995 ensemble cult film, The Usual Suspects. He is the youngest of the acting Baldwin brothers, with […]

We are redoing our kids wing and will be renaming all of our children’s environments . There will be no acronyms. When coming up with a new name for our children’s environment I considered the following things. Stickiness – Will people remember it to be able to tell their next door neighbor. Function – Is

I am not sure who likes acronyms better churches or the government. In the government there is the FBI, CIA, DHS, FEMA, NSA the list goes on. As far as the church goes, when I first became the Children’s pastor of our church the name of the elementary ministry was R.O.C.K. Church, I honestly still

I went and saw Spider-Man on opening day. Very good movie. I think the thing that I love most about all the Spider-Man movies is the message they powerfully portray. Loved it. You could definitely use this movie as a sermon illustration on the power of forgiveness, or destructive power of revenge and that is

Flowers on mothers Day, $45 Nice card from Hallmark $5, knowing the actual worth of your wife, or mother, priceless. Fun little link. How much is your mother/wife worth?

A CNN article talks of a British professor that discovered a mathematical formula calculated and found that time actually is money. According to the equation, the average British minute is worth just over 15 cents to men and 12 cents to women. So brushing your teeth costs you 30 cents. My time by the numbers:Commute

Time is money… We invest our money were we spend our time….In his new book, Parental Priorities and Economic Inequality, published by the Press, Mulligan introduces an economic model that predicts parents allocate more financial resources to children with whom they spend more time — such as adult children living at home and adult children

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one." Leo J. Burke

Church marketing sucks posed an interesting question Church “Mascots” for Children’s Ministry? “It reinforced an idea I have been thinking about for awhile. Why don’t children’s ministries in church utilize some kind of mascot or character to connect with kids? I have seen how much my own kids love going to Chuck E. Cheese and

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