After moving to Powell, OH 7 months ago, I have met ZERO fellow youth pastors in my area. I don’t know any youth pastors who are in the same schools that my students are in. I did a google search of “church in Powell, OH” and found that there are more than 20 churches in [...]
Archive for January, 2009
29 Jan
bullying – 2
yesterday i described bullies.
today: how to deal with em.
in my opinion, you’ve got 3 options:
bully them back. you can call em up, push em, get a mob surrounding their building, call their boss, tell their parents, etc. But whatever happens, you’ve merely become a force that makes the bullies feel and appear less “in-the-wrong” than [...]
28 Jan
bullying
Today I’ve been thinking about bullying.
I know when i use the word “bully,” certain images come to mind: images of a mean 4th grader telling another 4th grader that she’s fat, or a group of jr. high girls blatantly “shunning” another girl, or maybe the image of a cocky college football player comes to mind.
But [...]
27 Jan
Coldplay: Life in Technicolor ii
OK. I totally love this music video. It’s like creativity and cheesiness and humor and not-taking-yourselves-too-seriously combined into a pretty entertaining music video.
26 Jan
Monday Morning Update {1.26.09}
the weekend that was: (friday) finalized ski trip stuff and drove around my new-ish car, an 02 civic. allie and jen came to visit. We went to watch “revolutionary road” and ate some food at chili’s. (saturday) worked out, got lunch with allie and jen. hung out watching titanic. then we headed to downtown columbus [...]
22 Jan
Kanye West. Being a little more real than his fans realize.
So i’ve been pretty impressed with Mr. Kanye West in a lot of ways. He’s an incredible artist who is pumping out some crazy orignal stuff. His newest album is a blast to listen to while being completely different than his previous albums.
Sure, he’s got some junk in his life that would qualify him as [...]
16 Jan
my heartbeat for my job
i was asked to write down how i’d like to see our student ministry move in the year 2009:
I want to see students and adult leaders fall in love with Jesus. I want them to hunger for God. I want them to be all-out followers of Christ. I want them to be on fire (not [...]
15 Jan
beauty
a friend of mine is running a women’s conference at Taylor University. She emailed me for some ideas that may help guide a time of discussion. the interesting thing to me, as i thought about the concept of beauty was this:
beauty is different for different people. it is very, very relative. it changes based on [...]
