The other day I saw a youth minister on Twitter ask what should he do with an immature Christian who wanted to be apart of his ministry. Now of course, there is always more to the story and this is no way a stab at him or the decision that he has to make [...]
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On December 7th-8th, I traveled to Knoxville, TN to attend a gathering of church planters, potential church planters, and church interested in partnering with the New Thing Network to plant reproducing churches. The whole team from New Thing, Community Christian Chicago and all the New Thing Affilate churches were great hosts. [...]
Have you seen the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued revised Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising to include blog posts, word of mouth campaigns and even twitter messages? Starting December 1st, 2009 all materials and/ or gifts received that we review need to be disclosed in a simple and [...]
If you take a step back and look at student ministry from the prospective of all the ways to impact your ministry you know how much stuff there is out there. Conferences (for you, you and your volunteers and the teens in your ministry), one day events, retreats, camps, missions and service project opportunities, books, [...]
A couple weeks back Mars Hill Church in Seattle was in a message series on 1 Peter and did two weeks on Peter’s teaching on the biblical call to wives and the next week husbands. I saw on Twitter all the buzz this sermon was making and had been look for some new resources [...]
Back in the summer of 2007 probably on a blog somewhere I heard about a survey about church staff burnout for an upcoming book. So I took the survey and put an image in sidebar of my blog (now located on the page: Stuff I’m Passionate About) and have been waiting for [...]
Found this great short video (and here’s the full version it’s about an hour long) of Michael Frost defining the term Missional. Check it out and tell me what you think.
(HT: Brian Russell – Real Meal Ministries Blog)
Over the weekend Darren Rowse posted on his new Twitter focused blog: Twitip.com a top 10 list of “must follows” for Twitter beginners and it inspired me to think social media and learning for youth ministry and who we should be following on Twitter and their blogs.
Here’s my list in no particular order.
Tim Schmoyer -@rockinyp [...]
Nobody likes to say the “R” word. It’s the dirty word that sparks fear in the hearts of government officials, economists, CEO’s of large companies, owners of small businesses and last but not least the rest of us. During these economic hard times we need to pray for extra wisdom on how to [...]
Are you engaging the culture God has called you to serve the kingdom where you’re at? Are you like me and always looking for new ways to do this?
First off I have to admit I stole the post title from The Resurgence Blog and post of almost the same title. But I couldn’t [...]
