I have been working on our student ministry leader’s manual. Once it is done all of our leaders will be required to go through these so everyone is on the same page within our student ministry. As we grow we need things like this in place so everyone knows what is expected, the direction we are going, and why we [...]
I will never forget the week I moved out here to Ogallala. It was the week of June 16-22, 2002. I was excited to be moving into full time ministry and seeing where God would lead through it all. I remember trying to get everything in order and arranging moving transportation. I was a bachelor (and still am) so I [...]
This is an article that was written for the YM Exchange by Gerard Fess. It is a great article and more than worthy of posting this morning. Please take some time to really read through it. These are just some of the generalizations we hear from different people. Youth workers have a bad reputation in church ministry. Recently, I was [...]
Right now these are the books in my stack of books to read. Contrarian’s Guide to Knowing God: Larry Osborne The Unity Factor: Larry Osborne Love This!: Andy Braner Youth Culture 101: Walt Mueller Engaging the Soul of Youth Culture: Walt Mueller
I just got Walt Mueller’s book Youth Culture 101 at the end of last week. I am almost halfway through his previous book Engaging the Soul of youth Culture. I really like what he has to say about youth culture today and I think he’s right on. I am really anticipating reading Youth Culture 101 which I will start yet [...]
I downloaded Hillsong UNITED’s new album All of the Above this morning from iTunes. This is such a agreat album with so many great songs. Seriously if you like UNITED you will love this one. A cool thing they are doing with the download is including a digital booklet that is complete with chord charts for each of the songs. [...]
Tonight the band Growing Young put on a great show. The guys are from Seward, NE. You can really tell their hearts are in what they do to share the gospel with the people that come to their shows. The band did an excellent job. The turnout wasn’t so great. I guess doing it on the eve of Memorial Day [...]
Here are some links if you are interested in my outline from this weekends message. I love having the ability to put everything online now. It makes posting so much easier. Again I would love your feedback. John 15:1-17 The video clip I used from ProjectGod My outline in a pdf online here.
Tonight I am preaching on John 15:1-17. I posted about this earlier in the week here. Monday (or Sunday afternoon) I will post my final outline for this sermon. Once I post it I would love some feedback from all of you on the content of the outline. This way I can make some corrections if need be and also [...]
I am beat. It’s not 6pm. That means I have been playing golf today for 9.5 hours. We played a total of 45 holes. We started at 8:15am this morning and I just got back. I’m sunburnt. I’m tired. I’m probably a little irritable. So how did I do? Well lets just say that words cannot describe the awfulness that [...]
