Month: June 2014
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Shocker
Last week I had the opportunity to do some seminars at Camp St. Christopher. It was Sr Session (high school) and my favorite age group to speak to. I led two seminars. One on surviving after camp… along the lines of how do we keep growing. The other was on persecution and suffering for the…
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Cue The Excitement!
My article in Modern Reformation Magazine is online but only accessible without a subscription for a few more days (until June 22). The stage is set. The sound check is done. Leaders huddle for one last prayer. Cue the music. Dim the lights. Open the doors. A swarm of excited students pour into the venue.…
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Five Reasons Millennials Aren’t Leaving The Church
In a YS email, a link to this was offered but the version YS was putting out was really watered down and offered enough to satisfy the curious without the need to seek to know more. It stated that millenials are not leaving the church because they crave: Jesus, the Bible, community, service, and purpose.…
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Tips For A Safe Summer
It’s that time of year when youth camps, mission trips, bike trips, conferences, etc are in focus. We put a lot of effort into such adventures and rightly so because they have the potential to impact life change. Yet that life change might not be exactly what we want or expect. I am referring to…
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a brief update…
It’s been far too long since I posted here and I have been eager to add more posts regularly but life has prevented that. My last post followed Mothers Day and mentioned a young woman who had been in the youth group I led up near Chicago. She had been diagnosed with inoperable tumors which…
