The stance and posture of the missional youth minister…
Where do you stand? Not on specific theological issues, social issues, political issues or any other issues. Those are all certainly worthy issues to take a stand on. Specifically, where do you stand in relation to God and the broken world? And what [...]
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Last week I spent a couple of days with Mark Riddle. Mark is the lead consultant of The Riddle Group, a youth ministry consulting and coaching firm. Mark is a great thinker and has an unmistakable passion for the church. He is also a great friend and ministry partner.
One of the things [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Can a home be a house of God?
Posted: 24th December 2006 by Chris in Church, Family, Media, Youth MinistryThis morning there was a very interesting article in one of the regional newspapers here in the greater Chicago area — The Daily Herald. I was intrigued mostly by the research from Barna found within as well as some of the comments from various staff at area mega-churches.
If this home church concept continues to [...]