Super Bowl Commercial. . . Now That’s What We’re Talkin’ About! . .
If you caught Monday’s blog you know that once again, we’re encouraging parents and youth workers to seize the teachable $8 million marketing moments (or, more accurately, minutes) that will come flying at us before, during and after this Sunday’s…
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Ads Gone Wild. . . Super Bowl Commercials and Why We’re Nuts. . . .
Note: for an updated 2022 post on Super Bowl ads, click here. “Commercials” used to be a dirty word. They interrupted our television watching. They were an excuse to get up and get a snack or go to the bathroom.…
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A Weekend Pause. . . with Metaxas and Bonhoeffer. . .
You’ll no doubt be sitting around a bit over the last couple of days. . . it’s the weekend. . . you’ll watch TV. . . waste a little time maybe in front of the TV. . . I know.…
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Time Flies. . . Don’t Miss It. . .
Twenty-five years ago right now I was walking on air! I was getting ready to leave Abington Hospital outside of Philly. Inside, my wife was holding our just-born third child. . . a girl. . . Bethany. . . meaning…
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Snapchat and Kids. . . .
We had some discussions last week about this popular new photo-sharing app that’s sweeping through youth culture. I want to make you aware of it. Here’s a little video you can watch to get you started. . . . Visit…
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Youth Ministry and The Butterfly Effect. . .
I love the difficult questions because they make me think. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been blessed to spend time every day with a room full of thinking people who minister to children, teens, young adults and their…
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Cheating, Baseball (Bonds, Clemens, Sosa. . .), and Our Kids. . . .
This time it was the baseball writers throwing a shutout. And the shutout was thrown against baseball players hoping to score on their eligibility for baseball’s Hall of Fame. It’s a complex process and formula that takes too long to…
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“Guns don’t kill people – our sons do” . . . .
That was the headline over Warren Farrell’s op-ed piece in yesterday’s USA Today. Farrell has written on the development of boys in modern American culture, so these are issues he’s been addressing for awhile, making this something more than a…
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It Was Prophetic. . . How A 28-Year-Old Music Video Brings Tears To The Eyes. . .
So I’m sitting around the other day. . . waiting for my family to get ready to leave for a short trip in the car. I flip on the television in an effort to pass time and eliminate boredom. .…
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Newtown Returns to School. . . .
As time has passed, I’ve done some deep pondering and soul-searching regarding the best way to respond to high profile tragedies. . . particularly those like the horrifying December 14th massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.…
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Teen Trouble. . . TV Worth Watching? . . .
Mention the Lifetime TV network and reality TV shows to me and I’m going to snicker with some skepticism. When it comes to Lifetime, I think of the glut of “Lifetime Movies” remind me more of overly-dramatized soap operas than…
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We Are NOT Westboro Baptist. . . .
I was thinking. . . if the Westboro Baptist Church folks are really going to show up to protest the funerals of the Sandy Hook Elementary victims in Newtown, CT. . . could my youth worker friends in New England…
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