Month: March 2015
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Shedding Light On Dark History
What should we call our middle school youth group? Back in the late 80’s the question was raised when the leader decided that the name it had been using for well over a decade was no longer helpful. His argument was along the lines of “we should not be associating our ministry with a dark…
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We had a fantastic weekend at St. Christopher looking at select passages from Romans and worshipping our Lord together! Check out the Video!Epic 2015 from Dave Wright on Vimeo.
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St. Patrick
Growing up I never claimed to be Irish. When I reached high school I had learned just a tiny bit about Irish things and concluded (rightly or wrongly) that to wear green on St. Patrick’s day is to associate with being Irish and that by extension associates with being Roman Catholic, but I learned that…
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Thinking about Heaven
My heart makes me think about Heaven more often than I used to. That’s not a metaphorical heart I am speaking of. If you have read my posts about the curse of arrhythmia, you understand. So I got thinking how wonderful eternity will be… donning white robes and singing praise to our creator. No longer…
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Do Our Messages Matter?
Long ago I heard two bits of advice on messages in youth ministry. One is that “students don’t care what you know until they know that you care”. There is an element of truth to this. Yet history shows us great itinerant preachers who led revivals without relationships. This would suggest that we can communicate…
