Having been in the field of teaching for the whole of my professional life, I am realizing that other fields are dealing with the same kind of issues as teachers and schools are. It’s the never-ending question of how to sustain engagement and what truly produces growth. Too often, youth ministries overlook this reality when …
It’s fascinating to me to find the number of people who are shocked by the movement of churches to meet in different locations like movie theaters, schools and bars. Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of two unlike places intersecting or negative personal experiences in the new location. I can’t say that I’m totally convinced that this …
This morning, I am participating in the service to honor graduates of high school, college and graduate school. When you participate in these kinds of events, it inevitably draws up memories of your own graduations. It makes me think how important it is to create times, especially as we get older, to stop and remember …
I Elizabeth Hagan’s take here: Beyond its effectiveness for outreach, I think the church has a lot to learn from Twitter as a newly minted word in our vocabulary. First, say what we need to say and stop. The days of long typed memos addressed with a stamp on a letter in the mail are …
Conflict isn’t a bad thing, it’s a GREAT thing. Those who avoid conflict just create more and more conflict. Conflict avoidant people drive everybody around them crazy! Or as my professor would say, “Lean into the tension!” Change is how our muscles grow and how a community that is slowing caving in on itself is …
Excited to share these blogs with Hillsboro community tonight! Pastor Chris Adams Donald Miller The Village Church Christianity Today Wayfarer First Baptist Greenville Youth Siloam Health
Reading articles like this, just reminds me that when people are passionately engaged in a topic or area of research, they will go through any lengths to continue to learn. Any one of them could have stopped us at any point along the way, and there were many anxious times when we thought the exploration …
As I have listened to many advent sermons, I have been struck by how many contain the message of the resurrection within them. I understand their reasoning, but when I read the Christmas story, I read myself into the story. I recognize the miraculous events that surround his birth and I recognize that something is …
You are really in three different worlds while working in marketing, teaching and pursuing seminary, aren’t you? I’ve gotten this response quite often this fall and I can understand the initial reaction, but we don’t live in an compartmentalized world. I would argue that we never have. With my History 5 students last year, I …
In my church history class last night, we were discussing the Council of Chalcedon. The 27 tenets that the council concluded were important were all in response to what had already happened. They were already behind and their decisions were already out dated. If you are trying to implement internet policies and acceptable use policies …
