A Quick Thought on Youth Ministry Focus
A youth worker friend asked me a provocative question regarding how those of us in our youth ministry world spend our time. He was wondering if we are spending too much time on things that don’t matter, as opposed to…
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A Prayer For This Father’s Day
As we celebrate our Fathers today, here is a Father’s Day prayer from Scotty Smith. . . Dear Heavenly Father, on this Father’s Day, it’s an unparalleled joy to acknowledge that you are the Father we’ve always longed for and needed. Our…
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Telling The Truth Is Kindness
I remember that many of the arguments in the neighborhood of my childhood included go-to sentences thrown back-and-forth between the boys who found themselves at odds with each other. Sometimes these words preceded punches, but oftentimes these words were the…
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A Prayer For This Memorial Day
Over the course of the last few years I’ve come to appreciate the prayers Scotty Smith has written to guide us as we pray. I have found that written prayers are most helpful in guiding me to remember both how…
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How I Kicked My Phone Habit. . .
The six words at the top of this page caught my eye earlier this week when I saw them in the subject line of an email from First Things magazine. The email directed me to a short yet compelling first-person…
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If You Were The Devil: Strategies For Destroying Kids
I recently asked ChatGPT to play the devil. If you’re unfamiliar with ChatGPT, it’s an artificial intelligence chatbot that can understand and respond to text in a human-like way, helping with tasks like answering questions, writing, etc. It operates rather…
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A Gen Z Woman. . . On Marriage And So Much More. . .
Her latest post on her Substack caught my attention. . . as so many other posts of hers have done: “Why We Doubt Everything: We didn’t love faith, we never learnt it.” U.K. writer Freya India is a bright and…
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Holy Week. . . Something to Ponder #4 . . .
See What A MorningGetty and Townend See, what a morning, gloriously bright,With the dawning of hope in Jerusalem;Folded the grave-clothes, tomb filled with light,As the angels announce, “Christ is risen!”See God’s salvation plan,Wrought in love, borne in pain, paid in…
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Holy Week. . . Something To Ponder #3 . . .
If I had to be stranded on an island and could only have one hymn. . . this might be it. . . The Power of the CrossTownend & Getty Oh, to see the dawnOf the darkest day:Christ on the…
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Holy Week. . . Something To Ponder #2. . .
How Deep The Father’s Love For UsStuart Townend How deep the Father’s love for us,How vast beyond all measureThat He should give His only SonTo make a wretch His treasure How great the pain of searing loss,The Father turns His…
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Holy Week. . .Something To Ponder #1
For the next few days I will be sharing some music that is especially meaningful, helpful, and deep for me in light of the life-changing events that we commemorate this weekend. Take a few minutes each day to stop, enter…
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“Adolescence” on Netflix: Into The Unseen Underworld of Our Kids
From 1978 until last week, there were only two media artifacts that held the #1 spot in things I’ve watched that have rattled me to the core. The films Midnight Express and Fight Club offered peeks into the human condition…
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