Loose Change

tonight we are going to have an ending party to the youth ministry’s Loose change to Loosen Change campaign.
We’re trying to raise 200 pounds of change to be able to send to International Justice Mission so they can use it to free more and more people from the bonds of slavery.
Should be a great night.
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Lent 10

Saturday’s lent reading gives this quote, the author’s prayer during a crises in vocation, education and calling,
“I cannot believe that you intend the best years of my life as a disciple of jesus Christ to be experienced between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one. I cannot accept that I have peaked in my experience of [...]

Lent 9

Today Tim Keel talks about his expereinces in growing frustrated with being in youth ministry in a time when games where the most important part of the agenda and churched kids were entertained as much as possible in order to distract them from the evil (and fun) ways of the world.
Tim does what most young [...]

Foo Fighters

I am listening to the Foo Fighters here on my office couch right now as I do some studying. They are just one of those bands who just sound so much better when their music is loud enough to fill the room.
I wonder how they do that? How do you make a record [...]

Lent 8

Perhaps the hardest discipline in reading through Intuitive Leadership by Tim Keel is not taking off with it and reading ahead. I have set small chunks for me to read each day. This is hard, because his dominant theme is to embrace narrative, metaphor and chaos. In this, he determines that the [...]

Lent 7

In today’s section of Keel, he writes of the difficulties of growth. Specifically he talks about the difficulty of growing something else.
Not much said in these 5 pages. Maybe I should take bigger chunks each day.

Lent 6

On page 43 Keel writes, “We no longer live in the world of modernity…We are indebted to it and wary of it, and well we should be.”
I love this quote because I find a lot of postmodern-loving people who are really just modernism haters. When, in reality, modernity haas given us so much. [...]

Lent 5

On page 36 Tim Keel writes about the ways that we try to hide our stories by aplogizing, domesticating and neutering them. By ‘our stories’ I mean the stories found in the Bible. This is something that frustrates me to no end. I wonder how we can do this better. The [...]

Lent 4

When I was in high school my family was involved in starting a Saturday night service at our church. We were not following any models or had any idea what was going on other than we were full on Sunday mornings and Saturday night services were culturally acceptable because of the dominant Catholic influence [...]