I'm going to try doing this once a day.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Current Reading List
My current reading list
Streams in the Desert by LB Cowman. A daily devotional book given to me by Darby. Great insight and reflection on scripture.
The Word For Every Day by Alvin N. Rogness. Another daily devotional book given to me by Darby. Just started this one.
Getting Fired For The Glory of God collected words of Mike Yaconelli. Very interesting articles Yaconelli wrote for Youth Worker Journal on
making sure that we never put our jobs higher then the calling of Jesus
When Kumbaya Is Not Enough: A practical Theology for Youth Ministry by Dean Borgman. A detailed text on theology in a youth ministry context and reminder that one of the primary tasks of youth ministry is to be a theologians.
The Bible: Common English Translation and Phillips Translation. Working thought the book of Acts. The book is has a major transitional motif. Jews to both gentiles and Jews. Jesus to the Holy Spirit.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Eyes on the Horizan
Today was a day of plan hatching, of scheming, of plotting. I love days like this. Days where the future is on our mind. I think half of the fun of being in the event business for me is the dreaming of what something could be or could look like. Anticipation is key.
In the morning, I was up at camp friendship; the possible home of a new winter retreat we're designing at Youth Forum Labs for winter of 2012. It was great seeing their facility and starting to think about next winter.
This afternoon was spent with one of my former professor and a fellow youth ministry alum planning a Bethel Alumni Youth Ministry group for the fall. The community we're talking about starting would be kick'n to be apart of.
Tonight I played some really great laser tag games with a new church that a Youth Ministry connection just started working at. In the midsts of the cosmic battle zone, we planned a few future events with his church and even better... we planned to get coffe to get to catch up.
Then on the way home one of my volunteers and I hashed out a possible prom themed dance for the spring... just for fun!
This admits text messages and emails planning camp elements for this summer, meetings for next week, and plans for tomorrow.
When we prayed today for BAYM, a prayer was risen that this be within God's plans and not just our own. This is a constant prayer of those of us who plan and needs to be something repeated often so we don't loose sight of the one who is in charge.
In the morning, I was up at camp friendship; the possible home of a new winter retreat we're designing at Youth Forum Labs for winter of 2012. It was great seeing their facility and starting to think about next winter.
This afternoon was spent with one of my former professor and a fellow youth ministry alum planning a Bethel Alumni Youth Ministry group for the fall. The community we're talking about starting would be kick'n to be apart of.
Tonight I played some really great laser tag games with a new church that a Youth Ministry connection just started working at. In the midsts of the cosmic battle zone, we planned a few future events with his church and even better... we planned to get coffe to get to catch up.
Then on the way home one of my volunteers and I hashed out a possible prom themed dance for the spring... just for fun!
This admits text messages and emails planning camp elements for this summer, meetings for next week, and plans for tomorrow.
When we prayed today for BAYM, a prayer was risen that this be within God's plans and not just our own. This is a constant prayer of those of us who plan and needs to be something repeated often so we don't loose sight of the one who is in charge.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism-
Here is some really interesting stuff!
http://www.christianpost.com/news/moralistic-therapeutic-deism-the-new-american-religion-6266/
I'm diving into this one when I get back! I think it's short of the Full Gospel, but big stuff to tackle. I want to here push back and thoughts
http://www.christianpost.com/news/moralistic-therapeutic-deism-the-new-american-religion-6266/
I'm diving into this one when I get back! I think it's short of the Full Gospel, but big stuff to tackle. I want to here push back and thoughts
Vacation
I'm going on a cruise with 7 other close friends for a week. I'm pretty jacked. Time for R and R. Good conversations and lots of FUN!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
We r who we r... Dancing Machines!
Yesterday I completed my 5th and final dance of my late winter dance run. The last dance was a four hour set for the Sadie Hawkins dance in Watertown, MN. Girls ask the guys, it's always a surprise. Bellow is my set for anyone who is interested. Most were radio edits, or personal edits to make a few of the songs appropriate for a school setting, 3 hours and 58.5 mins....
| Dynamite | Taio Cruz |
| Love Like Woe | The Ready Set |
| DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (feat. Pitbull) | Usher |
| Do the John Wall | Troop 41 |
| Magic (feat. Rivers Cuomo) | B.o.B |
| Cupid Shuffle | Cupid |
| Could It Be You (Punk Rock Chick) | Hwood |
| Grenade | Bruno Mars |
| Teach Me How to Dougie | Cali Swag District |
| Who Dat Girl (feat. Akon) | Flo Rida |
| The Time (Dirty Bit) | Black Eyed Peas |
| Hold It Against Me | Britney Spears |
| Back to December | Taylor Swift |
| Rude Boy | Rihanna |
| Sandstorm | Darude |
| We R who we R - Safe | Ke$ha |
| Don't Stop Beleiven | Journey |
| Satisfaction | BENNY BENASSI |
| More | Usher |
| Crank That (Soulja Boy) | Soulja Boy Tell 'Em |
| Pretty Girl Rock | Keri Hilson |
| Down (feat. Lil Wayne) | Jay Sean |
| Black and Yellow | Wiz Khalifa |
| Whip My Hair | Willow |
| Bless the Broken Road | Rascal Flatts |
| Low (feat. T-Pain) | Flo Rida |
| Firework | Katy Perry |
| Pon de Replay (Radio Edit) | Rihanna |
| Hey Ya | Outkast |
| Billie Jean | Michael Jackson |
| Your a Jerk (Electro Remix) | Hoodfellas |
| Yeah 3X | Chris Brown |
| Bass Down low | Dev |
| Higher (Bonus Track) | Taio Cruz & Travie McCoy |
| Just Dance | Lady GaGa & Colby O'Donis |
| Pretty Boy Swag | Soulja Boy Tell'em |
| Everytime We Touch (Radio Mix) | Cascada |
| Break Your Heart (feat. Ludacris) | Taio Cruz |
| Lost In This Moment | Big & Rich |
| Aint going down till the sun goes up | Garth Brooks |
| Yeah! | Usher featuring Lil' Jon & Ludacris |
| Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams of Paramore) | B.o.B |
| SexyBack | Justin Timberlake |
| Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond |
| Club Can't Handle Me (feat. David Guetta) | Flo Rida |
| I Like It (feat. Pitbull) | Enrique Iglesias |
| Check It Out (Main Radio Mix) | will.i.am & Nicki Minaj |
| Just a Dream | Nelly |
| Tonight (I'm Lovin' You) | Enrique Iglesias |
| Thriller | Michael Jackson |
| Stand By Me | Ben E. King |
| Ridin' Solo | Jason Derülo |
| Hands in the Ayer | Flo Rida |
| All I Ever Wanted (Radio Edit) | Basshunter |
| Somebody to Love | Justin Bieber |
| Hey Baby (Drop It to the Floor) [feat. T-Pain] | Pitbull |
| Ring of Fire | Johnny Cash |
| Hero | Skillet |
| I Gotta Feeling | Black Eyed Peas |
| Arms of an Angel | Sarah Mclachlan |
| Love Like Woe | The Ready Set |
| Magic (feat. Rivers Cuomo) | B.o.B |
| DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (feat. Pitbull) | Usher |
| Dynamite | Taio Cruz |
| Happy Trails | Roy Rogers |
| I Don't Want To Miss A Thing | Aerosmith |
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Toys
Some would say, Youth Forum is now in the ministry of toys. We find really cool stuff for youth groups to use, get enough of it so that 20-30 people can enjoy it at one time, try to convince youth ministry friends and colleagues to rent it from YF dirt cheap to enhance their regular programing. Some of our most recent purchases are:
4 orignal x-boxes that can play Halo against each other
Multiple Copies of Banana Grams
DJ Laser that covers an entire room in laser dots.
All of this stuff is really cool. At least cool to me. But I can't help wondering about a bigger conversation that is happening in Youth Ministry conversations: Is using toys to draw teens into a youth group healthy, beneficial, practical and theologically responsable? This is a question I'm chewing on quite a bit. It also has major implications for the YMS ministry Youth Forum started last year. I'm going to take a few days and really mull it over and hack out some thoughts for this blog.
My gut re-action is: if a toy creates an environment that a teenager wants to be in, that they might not otherwise consider, it becomes a vehicle for the Gospel and discipleship. As long as the means doesn't become the end. In other words, toys can not become our God. God must be our God. Having focus and balance on the right things is key. I will pushing against these thoughts in a later post, but I'd love to hear your opinion...
Things to consider: is this really secret materialism? Are we cheeping the power of the Gospel on it's own? Is the risk of losing focus to great? Is this simply only "in the world" thinking? Did Christ use toys, the disciples, Paul, early church leaders?
Join to conversation! When you were in high school, were you involved in a Youth Group? What got you there? Did you stay? Did you stay long term? Why?
To those friends in ministry, do you use toys? In what capacity?
Multiple Copies of Banana Grams
DJ Laser that covers an entire room in laser dots.
All of this stuff is really cool. At least cool to me. But I can't help wondering about a bigger conversation that is happening in Youth Ministry conversations: Is using toys to draw teens into a youth group healthy, beneficial, practical and theologically responsable? This is a question I'm chewing on quite a bit. It also has major implications for the YMS ministry Youth Forum started last year. I'm going to take a few days and really mull it over and hack out some thoughts for this blog.
My gut re-action is: if a toy creates an environment that a teenager wants to be in, that they might not otherwise consider, it becomes a vehicle for the Gospel and discipleship. As long as the means doesn't become the end. In other words, toys can not become our God. God must be our God. Having focus and balance on the right things is key. I will pushing against these thoughts in a later post, but I'd love to hear your opinion...
Things to consider: is this really secret materialism? Are we cheeping the power of the Gospel on it's own? Is the risk of losing focus to great? Is this simply only "in the world" thinking? Did Christ use toys, the disciples, Paul, early church leaders?
Join to conversation! When you were in high school, were you involved in a Youth Group? What got you there? Did you stay? Did you stay long term? Why?
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