Vision

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but no vision." - Helen Keller

“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but no vision.”
– Helen Keller

What’s an LP?

This video is of a 13 year old girl being introduced to an LP record for the first time, and it’s a reminder that youth ministry is really cross-cultural.

We must work hard each day to figure out how to be relevant to their culture, so the gospel isn’t something we put on an LP and expect them to listen to on their iPods.

What’s innovative today will be old in no time.


If you can’t see the video here, check it out on YouTube

(Via: Kottke)

Go! What are you waiting for?

Maybe it’s because I’m teaching “Contemporary Youth Missions” this term. Maybe it’s because my class is reading part of “Let the Nations be Glad: the Supremacy of God in Missions” by John Piper (affiliate link). Or maybe it’s just because God has been impressing this on my heart. I’m not sure, but I do know that the Great Commission has been on my mind a lot lately.

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You Have to Start Somewhere

As part of “discipline,” one of my three words for 2012, I dusted off the treadmill today and hesitantly jumped on it for about 20 minutes for the first time in about 6 months.

I was a little embarrassed by the fact that I could only do about 1.2 miles in 20 minutes. When Nike+ automatically shared my synced run, I cringed at the fact that I could only post a 20 minute run on the treadmill.

But then I realized that we all have to start somewhere.

No matter what you’re trying to do, whether it’s save money, lose weight, get healthy, learn another language, read the Bible, or any other goal you might have, you have to start somewhere.

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This is Youth Ministry


At the end of December, I saw that one of my Spanish speaking friends on twitter posted a picture from his youth ministry with the caption “Esto es Ministerio Juvenil”, which means, “This is youth ministry” in Spanish. It gave me an idea to do a contest asking our friends to send in a picture they thought would show what youth ministry is.

We had over 60 photos sent in for the contest. It was really fun to see the representations from different countries. People sent in pictures from Columbia, Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, and other places.

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