“Last time I did this, I got stuck,” the high school sophomore told me as he prepared to climb the wooden ladder into our ropes course. “It took me half an hour to get down… but I’m not going to let that stop me today.”
Category: on Ministry
Keeping youth ministry simple.
I guess, maybe, sometimes we just try too hard. And that’s why it surprised me a little when the church group hosting their high school retreat at camp this weekend told me they wouldn’t need the projector in the chapel during worship…
Not exactly forty years (The big announcement)
I wandered, and I wondered. And along the way I’ve had some amazing experiences; I’ve seen God’s provision from day one.
Review: unChristian
This is the book I should have read in 2007. This is the book we all should have read in 2007. And, if you read it in 2007, you know what I mean. UnChristian is a necessary wakeup call for Western Christianity, not alarmist, but providing a thorough and thoughtful review of years of research […]
Bringing paper back: Write it down so you don’t forget.
The future is here… and it’s paper. That’s right. Paper. As an early adopter of technology, I was one of the first people I knew to us a PDA… a clumsy handheld device from HP that functioned like a primitive iPhone… without the phone part. I used them on and off for years back in […]