Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry

Last week I attended the Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry hosted by the Institute for Youth Ministry at Princeton Seminary. It was in Hendersonville, North Carolina at a beautiful camp ground called Kanuga. I went for a two day retreat and then for an additional four day conference.  It was nice to [...]

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Values

Ouch!
Via ASBO Jesus

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Jesus our God: Contextualization for Urban Youth

We’re teaching the kids about the life of Jesus and last week’s lesson was called Jesus Was Born For Us. One of my goals is to communicate the gospel in a culturally appropriate way. So, with our urban context, I pieced together a video about the life of Jesus and put the song [...]

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Experiencing Christians

I was talking to my brother the other day about how some Christians we know make us NOT want to be Christians. We had such a bad experience with them that there is no way we’d want to serve or know the God they do. Thankfully, we experienced Jesus for ourselves and the [...]

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Watch out.

“Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory [...]

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Teaching kids about the Holy Spirit

The Foursquare Church has an eight lesson series on Holy Spirit Discovery for Kids. Check it out!

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How Children Come to Faith in Christ

From Between Two Worlds who got it from the first source Ryan Kelly:
How do children come to faith in Christ? Check out the following radio interviews with Jim Elliff that are available for free online:
1. Genuine Salvation: More Than a Prayer
2. How Children Come to Faith in Christ
3. Taking our Children to Church: Is [...]

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Lecrae – intelligent, theological hip hop

Check out rap/hip hop artist Lecare. I started crushing on him after watching the Desiring God: Don’t Waste Your Life series interview here, here and here. But, alas he is married.
His best song is “Send Me” a going to the nations, missional hip hop song. Represent!  The video is brilliant. I wish [...]

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Preaching the gospel – Irreverent, Silly Myths

Matt Chandler tells us how we can preach the gospel in either two ways. One way makes the gospel a silly myth, the other way is Christ centered.

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Sometimes I feel like Yentl

There is this movie from the early ’80s starring Barbra Streisand called Yentl in which a Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to study to be a Rabbi.
Sometimes I feel like Yentl. I listen sermons and read books by great modern theologians like John Piper, Mark Driscoll and D.A. Carson and yet, I [...]

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