Month: May 2010
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Youth Ministry with Roots
White Horse Inn Blog has an interview of sorts with Cameron Cole from Cathedral Church of the Advent and host of the Rooted Conference coming up in August. Worth reading HERE A sample… Three words I uphold in effective student ministry are truth, love, and Spirit. By truth, I mean that students need to hear…
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THE GOSPEL VS. RELIGION
From Tim Keller’s new material “Gospel in Life” a DVD curriculum comes this great comparision (by way of Buzzard Blog)
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Scripture classes lose half of students to ethics, say Anglicans
A bit of background to the previous post… THE controversial trial of secular ethics classes has ”decimated” Protestant scripture classes in the 10 NSW schools where it has been introduced as an alternative for non-religious children, with the classes losing about 47 per cent of enrolled students. The figure was calculated by the Sydney Anglican…
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A bit from down under
Graham Stanton teaches youth ministry in the Diocese of Sydney and has an item on the Sydney Anglicans site that caught my eye. I don’t know the background to it fully but it seems that doing religious education in schools (something required by the government in the UK I know and perhaps in Australia as…
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Teaching The Bible: still unpopular, still essential
Phillip Jensen has some great thoughts on how we teach others to read the Bible… But what is the aim of teaching the Bible? Much of secular learning today aims at becoming qualified for acceptance in society or acquiring knowledge as an end in itself. However, neither of these is a sufficient aim for teaching…
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David Byrne is angry with Seth Godin?
A great reminder of a simple truth that affects our everyday relationships… The next time you’re sure someone is angry with you, perhaps it’s worth considering that you might be mistaken. Perhaps that customer or prospect or boss has better things to do than being angry with you. Each of us has a huge agenda,…
