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Here are my thoughts in written form. I hope they are valuable and contribute to your growth.
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...
read moreGo! 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...
read moreYou 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....
read moreThis 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...
read moreAn Enormous Debt
In Luke 7 we read about a woman who anointed Jesus' feet with perfume, washed them with her tears, and wiped them off with her hair. When he sees this, the host of the party begins to think to himself about the sinfulness of the woman. Jesus, explaining to His host...
read moreLet the Nations be Glad
One of the textbooks for Contemporary Youth Missions is "Let the Nations be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions," by John Piper (affiliate link). I love this book, and my students have been very engaged with it. Our discussion today revolved around the first...
read moreThe Volcanoes Declare the Glory of God
Today was a clear day, and one of the few in which we can see the volcanoes from our side of Mexico City. So I climbed the pedestrian bridge right in front of the Seminary and took this picture with the Pro HDR app on my phone. It seems to go with the verses that I've...
read moreCuan Grande es Dios (How Great is our God)
This is the international version of How Great is our God that they sang at Passion this year. It is an incredible rendition and reminds me that our God is greater than any one culture. He is above all.
read moreMake me an Instrument
When I woke up Saturday morning and checked my email, I saw that someone had posted a comment on one of the posts on our Spanish Youth Ministry Site (ministeriojuvenil.com). In the post I had said that I hoped that the site was a tool for youth workers in the Spanish...
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