Category: Youth Ministry
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Credo…
3. Youth Ministry that is effective revolves around content and context. It is my conviction that everything we do must center on those two aspects of what we do and are. The content is the gospel and by that I want to encourage others to think very broadly because the good news is not just…
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Credo…
2. Ministry is relational. I used to say “all ministry…” but I don’t want to overlook a really important work that we do which falls mostly outside of direct relationships. When I went into schools and spoke at assemblies I did not have a relationship with each student. Guest speakers and others who enter temporary…
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Credo – convictions and lessons learned
Credo is Latin and means I believe. It is a personal statement of belief whereas a manifesto is not usually just one person’s ideas or beliefs. I am therefore simply stating what I believe. Some of what I am writing at this point is very open to being shaped and molded in the future. Other…
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A bit of satire…
Ignatius from travis hawkins on Vimeo.
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What is the Gospel?
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More on Attention
I think we’re beginning to see a time of darkness when, amid a plethora of high tech connectivity, one-quarter of Americans say they have no close confidante, more than double the number twenty years ago. It’s a darkening time when we think togetherness means keeping one eye, hand, or ear on our gadgets, ever ready…
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On Attention deficit
We can tap into 50 million Web sites, 1.8 million books in print, 75 million blogs, and other snowstorms of information, but we increasingly seek knowledge in Google searches and Yahoo! headlings that we gulp on the run while juggling other tasks. We can contact millions of people across the globe, yet we increasingly connect…
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Entertainment at youth group?
When you entertain a young person, they only want more. One video game, TV show, movie, or iPod is never enough. It’s always about the next one, the latest and greatest, what’s hot and what’s new. The same happens in youth group. Make them laugh this week and they will ask for more next week.…
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Have we created monsters? (or am I just getting old?)
I am finding that I have very different perspectives on the world of adolescents than I did when I was a full time parish based youth minister. I have always benefitted from the viewpoint of the teacher and coach that I am married to – even though I find school a totally different animal than…
