Well if I am going to blog again I may as well get personal from time to time. If you don’t know me I am a bit of a pain in the neck because I am never satisfied and I tend to act like everything is messed up. Yesterday at our staff strat opp planning [...]
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Organic Discipleship
Posted: July 22, 2010 by youthinthecorner in Leadership, Pointe North Life, Theology or Church LifeWe are taking a new direction in our church when it comes to making disciples. The church is calling this “Trader”. In the realm of youth ministry we are calling it “Organic” It really is nothing new but I wanted to share with you a bit of what I will be sharing with our Small [...]
You don’t have to be cool I am 36 years old. I just bought my first PS3 and I don’t play it very well. I don’t skate. I don’t watch Twilight, MTV or any reality TV. I don’t know the latest Lady gaga song, the latest Kanye or the latest Beiber. I walked into a [...]
Something keeps popping up in conversations lately with pastors, youth pastors, lay people is what is wrong with the world. Youth Pastors can I beg you to stop ranting on twitter and stop ranting on Facebook. Rather than bash Twilight and the sin it represents use your pulpit and communication skills to talk about the [...]
Lessons from an OLD youthguy part 2
Posted: July 19, 2010 by youthinthecorner in Leadership, Theology or Church LifeLesson #2 – Study – Don’t be lazy in your prep Chances are you have some game when it comes to presence, leadership and speaking ability or you wouldn’t have been hired by a church in the first place. However, the more talented you are the easier it will be for you to fall into [...]
Lessons from an OLD youthguy part 1
Posted: July 18, 2010 by youthinthecorner in Leadership, Theology or Church LifeToday is my birthday, I am 36 years old. Now that is not too old by most standards…in youth ministry it is getting up there. When I go to youth conferences or to training websites and look around I see a bunch of tattooed, wild haired guys who never wore parachute pants or even knows [...]
This woman amazes me. She has the power to make me laugh and to make me furious. She knows when to smile and when to simply give me a nod. She knows when to pray and she knows when to say “it’ll be alright”. She gets me. She is my best friend and every special [...]
Leadership happens in many different levels but unlike a pyramid or a flow chart leadership to me is set up more like a compass with you in the middle and the people that you lead at different levels shoot out up, down and horizontally. DOWN We all get leading down. That is when I have [...]
Thoughts from the Abbey
Posted: July 14, 2010 by youthinthecorner in Culture, Leadership, Theology or Church Life2 weeks ago I was privileged to spend the week with the monks at Mepkin Abbey. I went on a fast of sound. I did not speak a word to another soul for 4 days. In a world of noise and constant activity this was to say the least surreal. I first of all want [...]
I don’t mountain climb…I am afraid of heights, don’t really like to hike all that much (much less at a 45 degree incline) and I don’t trust people easily. However, I do know a lot of mountain climbers and one thing I know about them is they always have a story to tell. There is [...]
