One of my passions is helping parents understand youth culture and the things that are out there that can be harmful for their students. I realize that not all parents will agree and each family has their own guidelines for what is allowed and what is not. That is fine. However part of my role as a youth pastor is [...]
I came across an article recently on Katy Perry. As a music lover I try to keep up on current trends/ artists that are impacting youth culture as a whole. Katy Perry is no doubt one of the most popular (if not the most popular) music acts in the world right now…and quite possibly the most dangerous to youth culture. [...]
This summer has been crazy busy. Really everything since April has been on fast forward for me. In April dad had all of his complications from his first colon cancer surgery. He ended up being in the hospital over a month. That all went by so fast with all of the worrying and everything that came with that. Also in [...]
I like how this came out. I think I’ve cleared up the typos. If you are in student ministry and you use Photoshop Elements and would like to have the files I used to create this and use it within your ministry drop me your email or hit e up through Twitter or FB and I’ll get them to you.
Once in a while everyone goes through slumps and for the past month and a half I have been in a slump with my blog. However with the new school year coming up I definitely plan on blogging more. I am working on some ideas to involve students from our student ministry with this as well. I need to work [...]
When I was in high school I was the kid who had enough Christian t-shirts for each day of the week. I wore them all of the time. Even back in the early 90′s it was hard to find shirts that weren’t overly Christian but yet had enough imagery to let people know where I stood. I wasn’t one of [...]
Today I am heading down to Principal Park in Des Moines for the first round of the Iowa High School State Baseball Tournament. Storm Lake plays at 2pm and a couple of our guys play on the team. I am looking forward to spending the afternoon down there watching a great game of baseball and exercising the ministry of presence. [...]
I have wanted to hear Laura Story live since the first time I heard the song Indescribable some years ago. Most people that Chris Tomlin wrote that song but really it was Laura Story. I’ve always loved her voice. Tonight as part fo the outreach to those riding in RAGBRAI our local Christian radio station brought her in to do [...]
This past Thursday my dad went to the radiologist to find out what kind of treatment he was going to need. We just keep getting more bad news after more bad news. From his first surgery to the 3rd major one in 5 days. Then the slow healing process and his loss of function of his bladder and the abscesses in his [...]
Today was the first day of Iowa’s greatest bike ride ever – RAGBRAI. I have never been on RAGBRAI but after tonight I my have to give it a shot for a day or two next year. More on that in a minute. RAGBRAI is the Registers Great Bike Race Across Iowa. It is supported and promoted by the Des [...]
