new Driven campaign

The end of the Reformation?

Here’s a link to an article about the Anglican chruch considering reuniting under the pope. This, contrary to what many may initially think, is a wonderful progression. The potential in all of this is overwhelming. Click the title link to see -

Len Sweet’s Advice

I am regularly listening to Len Sweet’s podcast now – and hope to do doctorate work at George Fox before he is too old to be working…
Here’s some of what he has recently said, as reported in the Associated Baptist Press…
Deal with it, get over it or get help. That’s Leonard Sweet’s mantra when it [...]

Oswalt, Called to be Holy

I had to read this book for my holiness class. It is pretty thourough and has a stellar beginning and ending. Sadly, it also has a middle that doesn’t move too fast as it repeatedly brings forth the same points using different viewpoints of Scripture. He lives a lot in the Old [...]

books are difficult

 
I am going to be reading a book every 2.5 days for the next two weeks and writing 22 pages of amazing papers. Thus, you likely won’t see the regular posts here. The benedictine one for sure, but the rest, not too likely. I’ll post on the books too…when I can. [...]

Riddle’s List

Sorry for the lack of posting – it’s going to be like this for three weeks because of sickness, other pastors leaving and papers due for my masters.

I do think everyone who has anything to do with youth ministry should read this list from Mark Riddle and spend some time with it. If you think [...]

Surrat, Ligon, Bird, The Multi-site Church Revolution

I’m not so sure that’d I’d call it a revolution. The idea in this book is to help churches consider, assess and develop a church that can operate as a multi-site operation. this model makes the most out of developed leadership and creates many new avenues for young leadership to develop. Of [...]

Holy Rule Chapter 4 – the instruments of good works

The fourth chapter of the holy rule is entirely different from the previous three. This one is a list of 73 instruments that make the monks do good works. They are 73 rules that each monk follows, which produces good works within the “workshop” of the monastary.
A couple surprising rules are:
#47 – to [...]

James needs…

Instead of a youtube this week, I am doing a fun thing – you go onto google and search for what you need. It’s kinda like prayer, but this one took 0.19 seconds to get 39,200 answers. Here’s what google thinks I need:
James Needs…

…your help
…playoff wins to be a star
…to be a counselor
…to explicitly be [...]

The Failure of Youth Ministry part two

alas, all is not lost. As much as people want to talk about the failure of youth ministry as a prolonged experiemnt – there are ample success stories. There are many students who can attribute their current spiritual condition to a quality youth ministry – or even a crappy one.
Marko has put up a top [...]