Glorified Baby-Sitting: Getting Beyond Youth Ministry Games
As a youth minister, I love games and as a youth group we play a lot of them. I think games are good. I think having fun is an important element in youth groups and in churches. However, our goals as...
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John Ortberg: The Care and Feeding of the Soul
Reviewing John Ortberg’s Soul Keeping has been like getting back in touch with an old friend. Although I never heard John live at any of the times I was at Willow Creek, I am a huge fan of his writing....
View ArticleJames Gray on Mastering the Bible
James M. Gray (1851-1935) was one of the most famous Bible teachers of the early 20th century. He was a key player in the generation that established the Bible institute movement, serving as...
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What will they hear next weekend?
Easter always has a lot of buzz around it, both from Christian and non-Christian sources. News outlets are always looking for a big, salacious Jesus-related story to plaster across magazine covers,...
View ArticleLogos 5.2a: Updates to Library View
Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris, who has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos seminars, provides many...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Popular Books of the Bible (and Why)
Jeffrey Kranz (@Jeffrey_the_Red) of The Overview Bible Project created the following Infographic from Bible Gateway’s online usage data. The top-10 most-read books of the Bible on BibleGateway.com are...
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Another Maternal RU-486 Fatality - This Time in Ital
The Family Research Council has tracked safety news about the abortion drug, mifepristone (RU-486; also, Mifeprex®), since its approval as an abortifacient in 2000 by the U.S. Food and Drug...
View ArticleYou are Seen, Loved, and Commissioned. Now Go.
Yeah, I see you come in. It’s strategically 9 minutes past and you know the lights are dimmed and people are standing and the music is blaring so when you slip in the back row, along with the others...
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Los Angeles Travel Deals
$189-$199 — Weekends at Downtown Los Angeles 4-Star Hotel Stay in the heart of downtown L.A. near the Staples Center and LA Live. Travel select dates through July. $184 & up — 4-Star Los Angeles...
View ArticleDancing With Jesus
We spent Easter with the outcast--the lame, the halt, the thieves, the alcoholics, the drug-addicts, the murderers. We spent Easter dancing with Jesus. He loves us. Whether we’re thieves, adulterers,...
View ArticleThere Among Them
“For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.”- Matthew 18:20.Dear ones, do you often feel isolated and left out? I know I do. I rarely have the health to go and do...
View ArticleWhy Didn’t I See It the First Time?
The first time—in fact the first two times—I watched 12 Years a Slave in preparation for my annual lecture on the Academy award nominees for best picture, I really saw nothing about the faith of the...
View ArticleThe challenges of putting on a Christian event in secular England
After a week of evangelistic events in Winchester, Steve Lee is familiar with all kinds of hurdles but also has lots of ideas about how to make them better for today's sceptical, visual, instant...
View ArticleWe Saw Them Become Orphans
. It was our fourth time to Africa, but our first time to go as a pair. Tim was hired by The Alliance for Children Everywhere to write some scripts, shoot some video, and edit it for a curriculum...
View ArticleLinks To Go (April 21, 2014)
The Easter sermon I won’t preach… but wish I could I wish I could say how they are missing the point. I want to share with them how they are not OK. I want to say quit being offended because … Continue...
View ArticleWatch vines grow in fast motion and you’ll see them spin in circles, looking...
Before climbing vines can twine their way upward, they have to find something to twine along. And when you speed up footage of their growth, you can see exactly how they do this…
View ArticleFun Ways to Find New Ministry Volunteers
It’s spring–time to refill those volunteer vacancies. What’s your strategy for filling those spots with excited, faithful volunteers? Bringing in new faces can feel like a full time job and it can...
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Don’t divorce an NYT article from sharp reporting
It’s especially crucial for journalists to, well, GetReligion when the story is about a “get.” That religious divorce paper — called a “get” — is important for traditional Jews, especially Jewish...
View ArticleThe baptism of Jesus: Perspective
I want to conclude this series within a series by trying to put the baptism of Jesus into its proper place. I’m a strong believer in observing what emphasis Scripture itself puts on certain stories and...
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