There is a guy named Lewis Pugh who is the first person to complete a long-distance swim (19 minutes at minus 2 degrees Celsius) in the North Pole. He did it to highlight the fact that it was possible to swim for a kilometer in a place that should be solid ice.
Pugh, a former maritime [...]
“One axiom of leadership I have come to appreciate reads, ‘leaders do not inflict pain, they bear it’. In the same manner, leaders do not absorb praise, they re-direct it. The success of any Christian leader lies significantly in their ability to keep this two-fold movement of leadership in balance. Leaders who inflict pain lose [...]
Some of you know that I am a fan of CNN’s Young People Who Rock blog. Usually, Nicole Lapin finds some really great stories of people under the age of 30 doing some remarkable things. A couple of weeks ago, Lapin made us all aware of Sean Forbes, a deaf musician who founded a non-profit [...]
Around the office at Youthfront there are a few legendary stories of people who have either been on staff or have merely stopped in a time or two over the years for a meeting or an inspirational talk or to partner in an event, say a prayer, etc.
I think most of the stories I hear [...]
Yesterday I spent the day at Barefoot Ministries participating in a writers summit with a wonderful group of people from all around the country. Some of the summit participants were old friends and current co-workers at Youthfront while a couple of the participants were people I met for the first time.
My friend Jeff Edmondson recently [...]
Gina, my wife, was given the gift of a subscription to Weavings: A Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life some time ago. When the bi-monthly issues arrive in the mail each time I am quick to snatch them up as if they were a gift to me.
It usually takes me at least a month or [...]
Last year Mike King and I hosted the first of what we hope becomes many micro-conferences called, Prelude. There was about 50 youth workers or so that gathered at our Youthfront Camp South to dialogue around Andrew Root’s book entitled, Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry and Sarah Arthur’s book entitled, The God-Hungry Imagination. It was a [...]
I read Michael Novelli’s book, Shaped by the Story: Helping Students Encounter God in a New Way a few months ago when it released. I’m finally getting around to posting about it. Don’t let my tardiness be a reflection on his wonderful work. After all, there were nearly two months when my blog was dark.
Before [...]
My heart aches tonight for my friends at Youth Specialties who have engaged in a re-organization of their company resulting in some significant days of transition ahead. You can read more detail about the situation over at Marko’s blog.
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