The weekend after Christmas our high school and junior high services are canceled so students can go to the main service with their families. This year, however, our students weren’t going to put up with that. They decided if the staff wasn’t going to hold services for them, they were going to do it themselves. [...]

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A friend shared this on Facebook today. I loved it so much, I had to share it here, too… (Here’s a link to the article) ___ By Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) – A Chicago man could be unwrapping the hundreds of Christmas gifts spread around his apartment for days, even weeks. Trouble is, they aren’t [...]

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I rode a roller coaster all week through this book. Lucado takes his readers through many legitimate fears that people can have outside of God’s design. Any fear, however, turns to faith as we gain God’s perspective about life’s issues. A phrase repeated a few times toward the end of the book becomes the mantra [...]

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Saddleback Church is streaming their Christmas services online in HD. Click here to watch Here’s the schedule: (All times are PST) Tuesday, Dec 22 – 7PM Wednesday, Dec 23 – 3PM, 5PM, 7PM Thursday, Dec 24 – 1PM, 3PM, 5PM, 7PM, 9PM, 11PM Merry Christmas!

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I’m reading Max Lucado’s book called Fearless. There are many great quotable comments in this book. This one stuck out to me from chapter 8 today. It’s in reference to Jesus experience on the cross… “Heaven’s best took hell’s worst and turned it into hope.” I look forward to finishing this book and will post [...]

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Thanks Kurt Johnston for posting this on your blog so I could share it on VolunteerYouthMinistry.com. I’m so incredibly glad this video serves as a warning to me instead of a “what-was-I-thinking” regret. I filed this on my blog under “How to last in ministry.” The concept is you last in ministry by learning from [...]

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My sister hasn’t raised her kids to be Christians. Her oldest daughter became a Christian a few years back. My other sister has been working on the other 3 kids from time to time. Today when I took my nephew out to lunch, he mentioned going to church with my brother’s family yesterday. He said [...]

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Jake Rutenbar did it again. Here’s a great video him and some students made for Christmas

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I’ve told my students for several years that my phone is on 24/7 for them. They can call me any time day or night if they need anything. I make sure they know that if they call me at 2:00 in the morning to find out what time an event is on Saturday they’ll get [...]

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A friend who is new to WordPress asked which plugins people use for WordPress. I thought I’d share the list on my blog, too. The WPTouch iPhone Theme is my favorite one. Happy blogging! The list is quite long. Click the “read more” button to see the rest of the list (Disclaimer: I use WordPress.org [...]

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