Category: youth ministry
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Towards Holistic Youth Ministry
I’ve been blogging the Harbor Mid-City journey as we head towards a launch of student ministry. Up until now in the life cycle of the church plant youth ministry has always been around– part of the DNA– but never emerged as a priority. That’s changing rapidly as the church has formed to the point where…
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Youth Group vs. Youth Ministry
Last night I sat around a table with some people to talk about youth ministry in our church. As I’ve mentioned a number of times, our church is in a working class neighborhood of San Diego. We are a community of people with tangible needs. There is real poverty. Real educational problems. Real family trouble.…
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How Far is Too Far, part 2
I haven’t otherwise answered the post from a few days ago, so here are the notes from my talk on Wednesday night. I’ll be getting caught up on all my talk notes over at the LF site pretty soon.
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Moving Onward
This is just one of those observation posts. It’s what I’m seeing from the corner office of my life. The summer between high school and college is both exciting and depressing at the same time for graduates. Unlike any other class, I got really attached the class of 2006. And, whether they like to admit…
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This morning I sat outside in the brisk cold air and read my morning devotions. As I was too tired to do my read.walk.think.pray devos… I sat beside a stone wall across the road from the Methodist College’s chapel and read, thought, and prayed. I was there about an hour or so since breakfast wasn’t…
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YS Forum Credibility
I’ve wanted to do this for a while. But I thought it would be fun to run through the top 50 most active list of YS Forum posters and just give my simple gut reactions about what I know of them. I don’t think I’ve ever personally met ANY of the top 50. This isn’t…
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Getting past Daniel 9
Last night went pretty well. I don’t I lost too many students as our group worked it’s way past one of the “big Baptist passages” of Scripture. Not being the hugest fan of the pre-trib view I think I was able to skirt past it, was true to the passage, and didn’t turn it into…
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Leave a Legacy
Well, all day I’ve been working on and thinking about this legacy talk. Some people on the YS boards don’t think that legacy thinking is important. One person quoted Rich Mullins and said, “leaving a legacy is fleshly.” Really? I don’t think so. I maintain that millions of people come and go on this planet…