If money were not an obstacle, I would take a group of students here every summer! http://www.keswickyouth.com

Sitting and listening to sermons is something I love to do.  Most of the time it is a very positive experience, sometimes it really is not.  The latter is when one of two things is taking place.  Either the preacher cannot preach and lost me or he is distorting the gospel or scriptures.  So, I…

Years ago I was deeply inspired by a book I read on Columba by Nigel Tranter, a Scottish historian.  While it was an historical fiction, it gave me a sense about how the gospel spread across Scotland.  Everything else I have read on the subject was consistent with the picture of evangelism painted by that…

I thought this was rather amusing and worth the time to read… It used to be easy for Christians to formulate an opinion about tattoos. Sailors had them. And some prisoners. Other than corpsmen and convicts the only ink you saw in church was on the page. This is not a pointed tirade against tattoos,…

Wow! If the pro-choice movement is going to get rid of the pro-life movement (and there is evidence that they want to), they have to get rid of religion.  If you don’t know the making of the French Revolution, it pushed atheism in order to change government because the government was so linked to the…

An article that was floating the blogs recently may be helpful as you discuss sexuality and same sex attraction with your students…  Hopefully you are discussing it.  This one speaks of a celebrity who has chosen to be gay and the gay community does not like her characterizing it as a choice.  Read about it…

Another one from up north… the heart of which says: Well, imagine that the Great One (that’s Wayne Gretzky to you non-hockey-ites) were to ask those involved in youth ministry that question – “how should I attract newcomers to hockey?” What answer would he receive? He might be told, by some, “Think about trying to…

I have long felt nauseated by Christian radio.  Not 100% of the time, but it just seems like there is too much on there that is superficial.  When I think about it and even more when I comment to someone about my views, I wonder if I am perceived as jaded or something because it…

A friend from up north posted some good thoughts on discipleship that are worth checking out… A snippet: It seems that we are so focused on numerical growth through evangelism that we have dropped the ball when it comes to helping those converts actually follow the one they have converted to. Discipleship is not about…