“I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that “nothing happens” when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings…

I am blogging the visit from our partnership with the Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin, & Ardagh at http://irelandpartnership.blogspot.com Do check it out!

Walt Mueller’s article in Youthworker online is something I really resonated with. His story and mine are not that different. Consider this comment “Perhaps it’s because we’re too busy doing stuff for God that we’ve lost our ability to slow down and let God tell us who we’re supposed to be and how we’re to…

A recent blog post that caught my eye discusses Family Worship in an interesting way… I get asked regularly about what we do for “family worship.” Among Christians who love the faith and their kids, family worship becomes a topic of interest. My initial response is always ambivalent, encouraged on the one hand that someone…

I posted a link and thoughts on worship recently but it is a subject that is so important that I click on links to worship articles and blog posts fairly often. Relevant Magazine posted a good article titled Are we thinking about what we say to God during worship? It raises important questions. A blogger…

Okay, this one does not dive into the juicy controversial arenas that it could but Barry Shafer at Inword Ministries does raise the question Do politics have a place in youth ministry? and it is a question we ought to be thinking about. In the Episcopal Church, it might be a hot button topic given…

An interesting article from up north on how teens view the influence of their parents… It might seem like they’re too busy playing with their iPhones or texting their friends to notice, but a new Canadian study says more teens are actually listening to their parents when it comes to sex. Some teens might grimace…

Recently I was teaching on 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 to a camp staff and was pointing out the temptation of watering down the gospel. The word that the NIV translates “distort” is translated by the ESV as “tamper with” and my study bible notes that the greek word used here is also used to describe when…

Gotta love the playable guitar on Google.com today! I could have wasted a lot of time on it (very tempting). Apparently this was done in honor of Les Paul.http://www.google.com/

Dannah Gresh, author of books on purity, has written a valuable piece for the CNN Belief Blog on why the hook up culture is causing depression and possibly suicide. It all boils down to the way our brain works. Good evidence here that God designed us for one partner for life. Recent studies have revealed…