Month: January 2014
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Contextualization?
Over the years I’ve swapped some stories with people about how our context varies in different parts of the world. One I heard was about a British speaker at a youth camp who was rather old school in his vocabulary. Over there the word for a bundle of sticks is faggot. He got to the…
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Building faith that will last
My friend Matt Marino has written for “The Living Church” a couple of articles on the importance of solid youth ministry. His latest is worth looking at. Like Rip Van Winkle, the Church is waking from its long slumber to find the world changed. All branches of the American church have a problem retaining young…
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The Benefits of Suffering
My friend Cameron Cole delivered this message found here in October at the Rooted Conference. He was keenly aware that he was closing the conference where some excellent and very experienced speakers had been doing keynote addresses. He really wrapped up the conference well. Just a few weeks later he lost his little son who…
