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Here are my thoughts in written form. I hope they are valuable and contribute to your growth.

Information Processing

This is related to my last post, and it also tells us a lot about the need to focus on really listening to other people when they are talking to us. "Most listeners process information in the range of 300 to 500 words per minute (the rate generally declines with age)....

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Something I’ve been thinking about…

Seth Godin writes some pretty interesting things on his blog about talking and teaching. They are things we should be thinking about in church communications. Here are some highlights, but you should read the whole post. What’s the point of talking to a group? I’m...

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The Cat’s Out of the Bag

Everyone who we were keeping the secret from now knows where Janell and Nathan are this week. They left early on Thursday morning to go to Florida to visit our family. It was recently all of our parents' birthdays, so we decided that they should see their grandson for...

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Be my friend

So, I gave in and made a MySpace profile. There are a ton of old youth group students, friends from high school, and friends I've met along the way on there. It's almost like a big reunion being able to catch up with them. I don't know why I had waited so long to get...

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Man Weekend – Post 2

Tonight was day 2 of man weekend. I decided to play videogames. It was a good night to play NFL Street and ESPN NFL 2K5. Those are two pretty manly Playstation 2 games. I started by watching NFL Network Total Access. I've got to get all my Fantasy Football decisions...

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Man Weekend – Post 1

Manly weekend started tonight. I'm home alone, so I decided to watch Star Wars Episode III. I kind of got into it a lot, as you can tell by the picture. It was cool to watch it in the living room in my recliner with the sound system cranked up. It's really a good...

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Notes from Autobiographies of Older Teenagers

From Volume 4: Number 1, Fall 2005 of The Journal of Youth Ministry Don't Make Jesus Cry: A Qualitative Analysis of Spiritual Autobiographies of Older Teenagers by Delia Nuesch-Olver I read this article from the Journal of Youth Ministry a few months go, but I am just...

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Thoughts about Seminary profs

You wouldn't be able to think about how often people tell me, "So, you only have to work two days a week." They say this because I have class only two days a week (4 hours per day). They think that a seminary prof only has to work the days that he is teaching. Well,...

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