Month: June 2011

I posted a link and thoughts on worship recently but it is a subject that is so important that I click on links to worship articles and blog posts fairly often. Relevant Magazine posted a good article titled Are we thinking about what we say to God during worship? It raises important questions. A blogger…

Okay, this one does not dive into the juicy controversial arenas that it could but Barry Shafer at Inword Ministries does raise the question Do politics have a place in youth ministry? and it is a question we ought to be thinking about. In the Episcopal Church, it might be a hot button topic given…

An interesting article from up north on how teens view the influence of their parents… It might seem like they’re too busy playing with their iPhones or texting their friends to notice, but a new Canadian study says more teens are actually listening to their parents when it comes to sex. Some teens might grimace…

Recently I was teaching on 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 to a camp staff and was pointing out the temptation of watering down the gospel. The word that the NIV translates “distort” is translated by the ESV as “tamper with” and my study bible notes that the greek word used here is also used to describe when…

Gotta love the playable guitar on Google.com today! I could have wasted a lot of time on it (very tempting). Apparently this was done in honor of Les Paul.http://www.google.com/

Dannah Gresh, author of books on purity, has written a valuable piece for the CNN Belief Blog on why the hook up culture is causing depression and possibly suicide. It all boils down to the way our brain works. Good evidence here that God designed us for one partner for life. Recent studies have revealed…

I think I linked to this a while back but I thought it goes well with the previous post and builds on it. It is written by Ed Stetzer. A lot of kids grow up wanting to be a rock star. These days the term “rock star” is applied much more liberally than the days…

I know that I am one with strong views on the subject of worship music and my views are not the same as some that I work with. I ran across this article in Relevant Magazine online that speaks to the subject and read it with great interest. I agreed with much of what was…