Archive for September 2008

I finished this book some time ago, but did not get around to reviewing it until now. The second book by Mark Batterson (Pastor at National Community Church), Wild Goose Chase is about following the Holy Spirit (An Geadh-Glas - “The Wild Goose” - in Celtic). Batterson describes life following the Wild Goose as unpredictable, [...]

Here are my favorite links from this week:

Pat Summitt, coach of the Tennessee women’s basketball team, underwent surgery this week on her injured shoulder. The reason: she was injured during a racoon fight.
Have trouble making the whole story of the Bible concise and fun, yet educational? Check out Barats and Bereta’s video Bible in a [...]

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I must confess that I am a diehard Office fan. So it comes as no surprise that I have had today marked on my calendar for almost 6 months. Tonight is the Season 5 premiere of The Office. The promos have been very good so far, claiming all our questions will be answered: [...]

Got a busy weekend: 900 pastors from the American Baptist Church of New Jersey are having a conference here at the Tabernacle. Busy times. In honor of this busy weekend, I wanted to share some of my favorite links from this week. Here they are:

Sarah Palin baby name generator. If you didn’t know, the Republican [...]

I decided to write about pizza today mainly because I am craving it.  In fact, as I type this I am calling our local pizza joint to get some for dinner. I think sometimes youth worker take for granted this simple yet useful commodity. Here are three uses for pizza in youth ministry:

Bargaining chip. I [...]

Over the last weekend, we had a guest group come in for a weekend conference with over 700 students.  Also coming for the weekend was a special guest: Tropical Storm Hannah. This affected their plans for the weekend, since they had budgeted a good portion of time for the beach and boardwalk. The storm also [...]

Because of living at the beach, my students and I are used to games others may not be familiar with.  One such summer toy is a pool noodle (or a water log).  A long, slender tube of foam, these noodles must have been designed with a teen in mind, with a youth pastor with pent-up [...]

The members of Third Day are hosting a blog contest on the third day of the month (today).  They wanted people to post their Third Day concert stories. Well, I have only seen them live once, so I guess there is only one concert I can talk about: Six Flags in New Jersey, June 2005.
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The latest edition of the Youth Pastor Toolbox is a phenomenal web app called Evernote.  I first heard about Evernote through some other people raving about this tool.  After using it for about one week, I am just as excited about it as them!  Basically, Evernote is a idea-capturing web application.  At first glance, it [...]