Eight Ways to Lose Your Influence in Theology

This is a great thought from Michael Patton copied from his blog – Pen and Parchment
Here are a few ways that you increase your chances to illegitimize your influence in the marketplace of ideas.
1. Be Imbalanced: Militantly focus on a particular non-essential issue. Whether it be in defense of a particular Bible translation or a particular [...]

Staff Meetings

I am probably one of the few people who like meetings. Well that is if the meeting is actually about accomplishing something and not just talking. Meetings however can be tricky. Our youth leadership team consist of 18 people. There are people who will dominate every meeting if you let them. They feel like they [...]

Spiritual Depression

There are times that I feel spiritually depressed. It seems like every fall I get this way. I have tried to figure it out but it seems every year around the end of October to November I get wore out and just have a hard time wanting to do anything. I don’t want to serve, [...]

Smart Phones and Ministry

In February I got a Blackberry because I wanted a phone to sync my calendar on my computer. This has been working great over the last several months. It has worked so good that we just got Dana a Blackberry so we could sync our calendar’s together.
Last month I was going to put Alabama’s football [...]

Fantasy Football

Chances are that you have already done your fantasy draft. I have completed 2 of 3. The third is the one I care about the most. I thought I would share with you my draft strategy.
1. I like to tier my players. I use a variety of magazines, fantasy focus on ESPN, and pre-season to [...]

Prayer Centers

Every summer we end by doing a prayer chapel. We create 10-15 centers where people rotate around the room and pray. Each center has a different focus and usually something physically that you do in order to help you focus as you pray. It takes the average teen about 45minutes to go through 10 stations. [...]

Surprising Insights of the Unchurched

Thom Rainer is a lead researcher for the Southern Baptist church. His team interviewed 353 people who formerly had little to no church affiliations or ties but became Christians and active members at a church. They wanted to discover what made them choose to become a Christian and the church they are attending. I must [...]

Seeker Friendly Preaching

I have been doing a lot of reading on preaching, evangelism, and church organization of late. Seeker friendly is a term that is popular today and I guess it is a loaded word that has lots of emotion because many people love it and many hate it. As I have been reading and talking with [...]

http://runpee.com

A few weeks ago I was watching Fox and Friends when I heard them talk about http://runpee.com. This is a website that tells you the best time during a movie to go to the bathroom. I think this may be the most helpful website I have come across in a year. Here is an example [...]

Digital Camera Scavenger Hunt

Every year we do a digital camera scavenger hunt with our youth. I am always trying to find new ideas but often have a hard time finding a good list. So I thought I would post some of our list over the years and tell you some twist we insert to make it more challenging. [...]