I’ve been thinking a bunch lately about how we help our students best understand the Church and its work in the mission of God. I have received several recent emails in which youth workers have expressed a deep concern for their students understanding of the church.
Can the students in your youth ministry describe the nature [...]
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[I've been posting once a week over at Scot McKnight's blog. You can read the post and join the conversation over there and read my previous posts HERE. Below is this weeks installment...]
Sometimes I wonder how I ever even made it as a youth minister through my emerging adulthood years (think: Dr. Jeffrey Arnett and [...]
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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I have finished the manuscripts to two of my most recent books. Clear and Story, Signs and Sacred Rhythms are both slated to come out with YS/Zondervan sometime this year. There is still some editing to go but for the most part — I feel done.
Currently, I am moving on to some other fun projects [...]
Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes:
Forbid that the lure of the market-place should ever entirely steal my heart away from the love of the open acres and the green trees:
Forbid that under the low roof of workshop or office or study I should ever forget Thy great overarching sky:
Forbid [...]
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We still have a few glitches to work out and as nearly all websites are, our new site is a work in progress. We are thrilled to have a new look!
Visit our new Youthfront website here: http://www.youthfront.com/
Thanks to our friends at INFUSION for their creativity and great work!
A few years ago Sonlife developed a learning experience for HS students called Merge. Merge was designed to help students merge with God’s story, way of life and mission.
There was a bunch of people involved in the development of Merge. Mike Novelli (now of Echo The Story, LLC and Imago Media) led the development [...]
I have had some trouble with my blog as of late. It seems like we have the kinks worked out now. For some reason I couldn’t login to my dashboard to write, edit or anything else.
WordPress has been good to me so far so I am not ready to bail on them yet [...]
My family is in transition. As many of you already know, we packed up our moving PODS last week, said goodbye to our friends in IL and have made our way towards our new home in Overland Park, KS.
We are waiting for our new home (rental) to have all the necessary things done such [...]