Often I will arrive at my office in the morning and take a few minutes to start my day by reading an excerpt from one of the authors who I happen to keep on the shelf above my desk… (St. John of the Cross, Williard, Foster, Nouwen, De Sales, Matthewes-Green, etc.)
I have found that this [...]
Archive for January, 2007
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Steve Argue is the Executive Director of the Contextual Learning Center at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and co-founder of the Intersect Community. He is hosting a one-day forum called, Where Youth Ministry Must Go on March 12th. The cost is only $40 and he has Mark Oestreicher and Kara Powell coming in to [...]
This morning I spoke to a group of high school students from the youth ministry of Christ Community Church in Leawood, KS. It was a blast! I was reminded how much I love teaching — especially students.
I spoke on Romans 2:1-13. Heavy, but fun stuff. I had a chance to [...]
G-man’s List of Top 20 Youthworker Blogs…
Posted: 28th January 2007 by Chris in Media, Youth MinistryCheck out G-man’s top 20 youth worker blog sites you need to know list… I must say I follow a fair number of these myself. Thanks for the list G-man, and thanks for including me!
Chris
Mike King, president of YouthFront and author of Presence-Centered Youth Ministry tagged me the other day to contribute to a list of the best books of theology published in the last 25 years.
This is the criteria:
Name three (or more) theological works from the last 25 years (1981-2006) that you consider important and worthy to be [...]
The other day (Jan. 13, 2007) I posted about some surprising comments that I have recently heard about my book. A good friend named Jay Howver (he is actually my publisher) read the post and suggested that I might be escaping some of the real and practical issues surrounding the comment, “If I implemented what [...]
Yaconelli’s Contemplative Youth Ministry
Posted: 21st January 2007 by Chris in Church, Youth MinistryIn the back of my book there is an advertisement for Mark Yaconelli’s book entitled, Contemplative Youth Ministry. I confess that I did not know the creative team at YS was putting the ad in my book — I am totally cool with it. I think Mark is great (I do not know [...]
I have a friend named Tim who teaches at a high school near Toronto. He alerted me to this article (Teachers Spend Out of Pocket Average of $593) for some research that we are doing. It got me thinking that it might be very interesting to see what the annual out of pocket [...]
“One-size-fits-all” Ministry Models and More
Posted: 13th January 2007 by Chris in Church, Youth MinistryI have received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback on my book — A New Kind of Youth Ministry — since YS released it in the fall. I have also had some really sharp critical thinkers invite me to dialog about some of my thoughts and I am enjoying those conversations. I look [...]
I’m in Orlando today connecting with a potential employee for Sonlife. For some reason the hotel I am staying in had delivered to them the Sunday edition of the Orlando Sentinel today (Monday)! Somebody made a mistake somewhere down the line…
It actually ended up being cool. I found an article on brain-based [...]