March, 2008
Shift
Since you’re new here, you may want to take an extra minute to subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In a little over a week from now I will be traveling with the junior high directors on my staff at Liverpool Community Church to the Shift Student Ministry Conference at Willow Creek. [...]
A little off topic but…
If you can help, please do.
Liverpool Community Church is asking General Mills, through their Hometown Helper program, to help finance renovations for the neighborhood playground. You can help out by being a cheerleader for the project.
All you have to do is go online to this web site.
Then scroll down to the comment [...]
Stick to the plan?
I have a great little dry cleaner that I pass by on my to and from the church every day. Well, at least I think it is great because of the sayings that they always put up on their big sign out by the road. Here is today’s message:
A man who sticks to his [...]
Simon!
In case you missed it, check out what Granger Community Church did this past Easter Sunday. Remember the old game “Simon”? Well, think on a much bigger scale. Their pastor used it as a fun way to get into an illustration about viral communication. See the whole message here.
Need some help!
Ok, like I have said before, I will usually post my graphic art on the page that I have designated for that. This time though, I am thinking that you might be able to help me out. I need some feed back on a possible Sunday message series graphic, here is a rough [...]
All time worship songs?
Although I personally feel like we are getting into sticky territory when we begin rating worship songs I thought that this list over at The Search was pretty interesting!
Charles Wesley (#83, #35) getting beat out by the likes of Sigur Ros (#6), Sufjan Stevens (#33, #8), The Beatles (#25), Mozart (#26), Coldplay (#30), and [...]
Core Seminar is Coming!
My church has the privilege of hosting one of the Youth Specialties Core seminars this year. The date is May 3, it will an awesome opportunity for youth workers to get some quality training and this year there is the added bonus of being able to bring student leaders! This is a great [...]
Put Your Face in a Hole!
Connecting Creatively
I see a great trend coming down the pike. A reconnection with the creativity that is within the church to convey the Gospel. Group Publishing is coming out with a new youth oriented Bible called Live
it is full of poetry, illustration, and space for students to create on their own. Just ordered [...]
What a night!
So I travelled down to Ithaca again tonight, for the third day in a row. I went to support the Big Red of Cornell in the third game of a best of three series and the Big Red won 6-0!
My trip came at a cost though. Check out the driver’s side mirror on my [...]

