College Football, Entitlement, Miami. . . and Kirk Cousins. . . .
My friend Dan Sterk, a youth worker in Michigan, sent me an email this week. It was short and it wound up being very sweet. Dan was raised to be a fan of the Michigan Wolverines. He married a young…
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12-Year-Olds And The Little League World Series. . . Too Much Too Soon? . . . .
I don’t know if it was every little boy’s dream, but it was certainly mine. I played Little League Baseball for the East Abington Little League. My first year at the Double-A level was a year that I remember was…
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More Reason To Not Like Abercrombie. . . .
Al Lewis had a great little column yesterday in the Wall Street Journal supplement that runs in many newspapers across the country. Lewis exposes the obvious marketing and publicity push by the edgy and always-envelope-stretching clothing retailer that involves Michael…
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Redeeming My Mouth. . . And Singing About It. . .
The other day I was up at the track and I spotted a young female runner who looked familiar. . . but I wasn’t sure. I was afraid that any effort on my part to get closer to grab a…
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The Game, Flash Mobs, and Phony Phone Calls. . . .
So prosecutors in Los Angeles County are deciding what they want to do with The Game. It seems that last Friday the rapper sent out a mischievous tweet to his almost 600,000 Twitter followers. The Tweet invited followers to call…
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Yesterday I Stepped Into a Time Machine. . . .
. . . and it threw me into the future that is now. Really. It’s true. Here’s what happened. I decided to head over to the library at our local college here in town. To give you some context, it’s…
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The Soul in Cyberspace. . . 14 Years Later. . .
I’m still researching this project related to the role the digital frontier and social media are playing in culture and the lives of our kids. Yesterday I spotted a book on my shelf that was published in 1997, the same…
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Are We Making A Digital Mess? . . .
The changes continue. Some are good. Some are troubling. All of us must be thinking about how to live redemptively with the changes in the midst of the changes. . . and then endeavoring to do so. That’s what discipleship…
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I Am Grateful Today. . . .
The last year has flown. God has been good. I am grateful to Him. The words to this, one of my favorite hymns, have taken on significant meaning for me over the course of the last year. How firm a…
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“Divided” The Movie. . . . Hmmmmmm. . . . .
Over the course of the last couple of weeks I’ve had several friends contact me for my thoughts about a new film – Divided – that blasts away at youth ministry as we know it. Since I’ve lived in the…
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Thank You Lord, for John Stott. . . .
Last weekend I posed a meal-time question to my wife and a couple of our friends: “If you could choose five influential people from the last 100 years or so and spend one day with each, who would you choose?”…
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Wrestling With Homosexuality. . . .
Several years ago I had a conversation with a close Christian friend who said he had something to tell me. It was a different time – a markedly different time – when he opened and poured out his heart with…
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