• College Basketball Rankings – Week 15

    College Basketball Rankings – Week 15

    So here we are. Midway through the conference season and things are starting to heat up all over the country. The Big Ten and Big 12 are proving to be full of parity… top to bottom anyone can win, the SEC has settled into the haves and have nots, same with the Pac 12 and Mountain West.

    Week 15 Rankings

    1. Syracuse
    2. Arizona
    3. Florida
    4. Wichita State
    5. San Diego State
    6. Villanova
    7. Kansas
    8. Duke
    9. Michigan State
    10. Louisville
    11. Cincy
    12. Saint Louis
    13. Michigan
    14. Iowa
    15. Creigton
    16. Virginia
    17. Iowa State
    18. Kentucky
    19. Texas
    20. Memphis
    21. Pitt
    22. Ohio State
    23. New Mexico
    24. Wisconsin
    25. UCLA

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  • Pushing Forward by Letting Go

    Pushing Forward by Letting Go

    The beta test year for OpenYM is now about 3/5th complete, with Boston this weekend and Grand Rapids at the end of the month.

    Three years ago Open started as a whitepaper. Something I was tentatively calling “YouthMin Camp.” It was forking the very best of WordCamp & some of the flavor of BarCamp, and adding in a few elements to make it work within the youth ministry world.

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  • Blogging 201: Generating Content They’ll Love

    Blogging 201: Generating Content They’ll Love

    March 6th at 11:00 AM Pacific

    Building off of the success of Blogging 101, I’ve scheduled the next logical step… Blogging 201!

    Blogging 101 was all about getting started, having an initial plan to make blogging a habit, getting your blog set-up, and stuff like that.

    Blogging 201 is about writing, editing, and publishing the content that’ll actually go on your blog. (aka The hard part.)

    What Blogging 201 Will Cover

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  • Gentle

    Gentle

    Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

    Ephesians 4:2

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  • College Basketball Rankings – Week 14

    College Basketball Rankings – Week 14

    Here’s my look at the week that was in college basketball… and a wild last couple of days it has been.

    Adam’s Week 14 College Basketball Rankings

    1. Syracuse
    2. Florida
    3. Wichita State
    4. Arizona
    5. San Diego State
    6. Villanova
    7. Cincinnati
    8. Kansas
    9. Michigan State
    10. Duke
    11. Saint Louis
    12. Creighton
    13. Kentucky
    14. Texas
    15. Michigan
    16. Oklahoma State
    17. Louisville
    18. Iowa State
    19. Iowa
    20. New Mexico
    21. Gonzaga
    22. UConn
    23. Virginia
    24. SF Austin
    25. Wisconsin

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  • Spring Travel Schedule

    Spring Travel Schedule

    The next few months will find me in a bunch of places, I’d love to meet-up if it works. Here’s where I’ll be and how we can connect.

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  • When It Rains

    When It Rains

    California is desperate for rain. The past several days in San Diego have been overcast, we even got a couple sprinkles. But we are long overdue for serious rainfall. And if we don’t get the rain we need in the next 6-10 weeks it’ll have a dramatic impact on life here in California. But also around the country and the cost of things manufactured and grown here will go up. 

    When It Rains

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  • This isn’t The Cosby Show

    This isn’t The Cosby Show

    I grew up with The Cosby Show. Thursday nights on NBC.

    It was must-see TV.

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  • Should I friend my youth group students on social media?

    Should I friend my youth group students on social media?

    From a Pew Internet focus group:

    Friending teachers and preachers

    Female (age 14): “I think I wouldn’t [become Facebook friends with my teachers]. Just because I’m such a different person online. I’m more free. And obviously, I care about certain things, but I’m going to post what I want. I wouldn’t necessarily post anything bad that I wouldn’t want them to see, but it would just be different. And I feel like in the classroom, I’m more professional [at] school. I’m not going to scream across the room oh my God, I want to dance! Or stuff like that. So I feel if they saw my Facebook they would think differently of me. And that would probably be kind of uncomfortable. So I probably would not be friends with them.”

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  • Glass

    Glass

    Shattered-Glass

    So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

    — Genesis 1:27

    If we are image bearers of God. We are made of glass, fragile in comparison to the One we reflect.