February, 2008
When It’s Stale, Throw It Out!
Since you’re new here, you may want to take an extra minute to subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!One of my pet peeves is old, stale worship music! Get something fresh man! Sing a new song! With that said I am really looking forward to Lee McDerment’s album “A Matchlight In The [...]
Happy Anniversary!
Coffee With Chris is officially one year old today (since it is a leap year and normally today would be Mar. 1!)
I didn’t think I get this far, especially since my first attempt at blogging, two years ago, only lasted about 3 months!
I realize that the “big boys” in the blog world have way more [...]
The New Christians
The New Christians: Dispatches From The Emergent Frontier by Tony Jones is a book that I would highly recommend to any one that has ever wondered about the “emergent church.”
This book is a mash-up of Tony’s personal experience with the emergent church, the general theology behind the emergent church, stories from individuals, and “snapshots” of [...]
Dissapointment
One of the great joys in life is ordering a Nooma and then getting it in the mail. It shows up in that eye catching “nooma blue” box, then you open it, to find it neatly packed with three cool “nooma blue” gum balls inside! Well, I got the latest Nooma vid in the mail [...]
Youth Specialties CORE
So you may have been wondering why I was in contact with the director of the Youth Specialties CORE traning seminars… Well, I forgot to mention that my church is hosting The CORE in the Syracuse Area this year!
If you are in youth ministry and have not been to a CORE you are truly [...]
Create Your Own Social Network
I neat little place called Ning.com was brought to my attention yesterday by the director of the Youth Specialties CORE training seminars and it looks like a great tool!
Here are my thoughts on ning.com
PROS
Could be a great tool for youth min and churches in general for connection
Can be used to organize groups within your network [...]
Message Series Graphics
I want to try to help some other people out but I don’t want to be out here always trying to make myself look good. So I won’t be posting about the graphic art that I do too often. If you are interested in message series graphics just check out the menu option at the [...]
Spy Rule #7
Rule #7 Avoid defensiveness at all costs
Any spy’s cover will certainly be exposed quickly if they fall into a defensive posture. The same principle applies to every leader. Once a leader assumes a defensive posture and tries to rationalize every decision that is made all hope of true influence has gone out the [...]
Taking New Risks
One of the things I have really learned to value in life and ministry is risk taking. Not the stupid kind of risk taking but the kind of risks you take when you are working on loving and serving in better ways.
After Easter we are going to be taking another risk (admittidly not a huge [...]
Spy Rule #6
Rule #6 Be Aware of Your Environment At All Times
This one seems kind of obvious to me but let’s try to break this down in to some actionable items. After all, if “knowing is half the battle” then the other half is actually doing something!
Relentlessly evaluate your programs
Are they still as relevant as when [...]
