youtube and the world of “me”

I maybe one of the last bloggers on the planet to post a link to the article about the youtube and myspace video of three teen girls attacking another teen girl. I either don’t read the news headlines enough, or watch enough television news, but I was appalled by the video footage of the teen [...]

debunking the 4% myth

Marko from YS, had a post about Christian Smith’s article. Here is the link for the Smith article.  Come on people. really. There is such a thing as an alaramist Christian, those who paint in black and white and think those that don’t are part of the problem in the world today. One of the premises [...]

There’s a stirring…(I hope)

The real struggle in the church, as I see it is a generational one. We have a four groups really whether knowingly or not, vying for power. The WWII generation, Boomers, Xer’s and Gen Y. The one’s in power could learn from the one’s without, and vice versa. I am however, encouraged by the freshness and [...]

Parent-Teen relationships

Here is the article I wrote for our youth group’s/church’s monthly newsletter:
Article for Bulletin: February
This year our theme is “relationships.” Bob Bryant always says, “Life is relationships.” How true. Relationships are multi-dimensional, for instance God-man, man-God,man-man. In addition to the multi-dimensionality of relationships, relationships can be messy. We all know people who have experienced fractured relationships [...]

Acts 28:17-31

Acts 28:17-31 
I can’t help but wonder about the ending of Acts. We aren’t told the reasoning as to why, but Luke ends his second volume of all that Jesus began to do and teach rather abruptly and with these words, “Boldly and without hindrance he preached the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord [...]

28:11-16

Acts 28:11-16 Finally, after danger on the high seas, a ship wreck and wintering on Malta, they were ready to set sail and in our reading today, Paul finally reaches Rome. This had been many years in the making and what relief there must have been to have finally made it to their destination. Paul’s trip [...]

Acts 28:1-10

Read: Acts 28:1-10 
After abandoning ship, the 276 travelers, including Paul make their way to
Malta and were received warmly by the islanders. We are told that is was cold and rainy when the ship wrecked crew arrived and the natives of the island built a fire for the cold and soggy crew. Have you ever been [...]

Acts 27:27-49

Read: Acts 27:27-49 
Ship wrecked. If the first century world had news papers, this would be the headline from the Roman Times. Paul, his companions, the other prisoners and the crew were in peril for some 14 days. Two weeks caught in a storm, two weeks without food (v.33-34), and two weeks without hope. The outlook [...]

Acts 27:13-26

Acts 27:13-26  We all have experience storms in our lives. And like ships we’ve been rocked back and forth by the waves of circumstances that our beyond our control. Storms are a part of life. Storms can keep people bound up with fear. Storms can take lives, and destroy property and even ruin all hope. [...]

Acts 27:1-12

Read: Acts 27:1-12  Even some in the ancient world wanted to spend the winter in
Phoenix. Only the Phoenix we are discussing from Acts 27 isn’t the home of the Cardinals in Arizona. Finally after two years of prison and trial, Paul and some other prisoners were finally going to sail for Rome. Apparently, Luke, the [...]