Month: October 2008

Al Simpson, State Board of Education Chairman, presented E’Lane Rutherford with an award for her exceptional volunteer service to the Georgetown County School District. Rutherford was one of 30 outstanding volunteers who received the prestigious honor at a ceremony Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Columbia. The Volunteer Awards honor significant contributions made by four categories of…

While the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church, the assimilation of the church to the world silences the witness. More HERE

One of the hardest thing I have to do sometimes is to confront people as I sense God’s leading to do so. It is not something I enjoy, in part because it makes for a lot of stress in me, but in greater part because it does not always go well. Fortunately I don’t have…

I have been listening to Alistair Begg’s preaching for a while now (podcasted) and really enjoy his expository style fused with lots of humor and insights. I just learned that they do a conference every year in May and the next one looks great! It is oriented toward preaching, but we all know there is…

John Piper put things in great perspective for me today when Dave alerted me (via Facebook) of this article. Voting is like marrying and crying and laughing and buying. We should do it, but only as if we were not doing it. That’s because “the present form of this world is passing away” and, in…

I have long thought that to do what Steve proposes would be the most powerful way to run a youth group… or a church… Because God likes me and because he knows how discouraged I get about myself, about others and about the church, he regularly allows me to see the “real deal.” If I…

An older lady in the congregation phoned the youth directors to speak with them about a gift for youth ministry. Her husband had passed away and memorial gifts had been given to the church in his name. It was up to the widow to determine how they would be spent. Given her husband’s commitment to…

Years ago I used the 3D guide produced by CPYU with groups and found it to be very helpful in getting students to think through the media that they absorb. CPYU has updated the resource and added a valuable section to it. You can download the leaders guide for free here which allows you to…

What do we do with the stats that tell us that Christian kids don’t live any differently (morally) than their non believing counterparts? How do we make sense of it? John Piper has some thoughts on equipping the young saints… Pray for sure. And work our heinies off teaching and preaching and modeling the Truth.…

Educating others… Recently one of the newer folks in the diocese asked an older youth minister what I actually do in my job. It is a fair question of course and reminded me of a simple truth we all need to keep in mind. Part of our job in ministry is educating people about what…