Tony Campolo is a gifted communicator. He had some great things to say in his two talks. However, I fear that his gospel is different from the Biblical gospel. I believe in doing justice and feeding the poor and I’m thankful to God for Christians who are doing something about it. It seems that for [...]
Duffy Robbins spoke at general sessions 2 and 5. In his first talk he spoke from Philippians 2:5-11 on Authentic Passion. Jesus’ passion was a little bit irrational (v6), excessive (v7) and costly (v8). Youth Pastor’s are called to authentic passion and Jesus is the model of that passion.
In his final talk he spoke from [...]
The Skit Guys are funny. Understatement. The skit guys are very very funny. They have done some hilarious skits at each of the main sessions. On Thursday morning I went to their workshop on using drama and skits in youth group. It was very helpful in thinking how to do it well.
Last night they did [...]
This afternoon I went to a seminar on the emerging missional church. It was run by Tim Hein from the Forge network in Melbourne. I’m quite well read on the emerging church in the US but need to do more work in thinking through what it looks like in the Australian context.
While I disagreed with [...]
The cross of Jesus is the central point of Christian theology. The cross of Jesus is central to the gospel. Jesus dead, buried, risen and appeared is a summary of the gospel that Paul preached from 1 Corinthians 15.
While I don’t think that a pastor’s conference is the forum for an evangelistic rally, I feel [...]
Yesterday Tim Hawkins spoke in the main session in the morning and in a workshop on the youth worker and marriage in the arvo. Both were very helpful.
The morning talk was very challenging. We looked at Jeremiah 17 and reflected on trusting in God vs trusting in ourselves and the consequences of each. A check [...]
CCECYOUTH has a weekly Podcast. I did a special interview on the Gold Coast with Internet Superstar: JOSH GRIFFIN. He has a blog, podcast, myspace page and youtube channel. We talk about safety on the internet and other stuff. Good times.
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Observation: Americans are good at giving thanks. Culturally they have a day set aside each year to express thanksgiving and it seems that they are much better at acknowledging people in ministry than we are in Australia. Josh Griffin and The Skit Guys are both good at simply saying ‘thank you’ to youth pastors and [...]
New record for September: 7.5 hours of sleep!! Glorious! This morning Josh Griffin ran a seminar on the internet, social networking and teenagers. I’m running some similar things early next year - so it’s good to rip his ideas! Here’s some:
To protect yourself on line you must…
Stranger-protect your profile
Limit the use of personal information online
Open [...]
Today was a professional development day. I spent the day with Josh Griffin. He’s a good guy (and famous blogger). The workshop was called: Your first two years in youth ministry. While I was familiar with lots of the ideas he presented, having read lots of the gear that has come from Doug Fields and [...]
I like to think of myself as a city-slicker. Let’s be honest. I’m really just a country-bumpkin! Here are two sms’ I sent to Row on my way here:
Conversation #1. “Excuse me sir you seem to look a little lost”….”Um can you tell me how I check in”.
I’m on the bus. I thought we [...]
I’m at the National Youth Ministry Convention 2007. If I get a chance I’ll do some ‘live-blogging’ of some of the gear. (Click here for some live blogging I did at a youth convention at the start of the year)
09.25Youth Culture
Below is part of an email I just sent to a friend asking some questions about youth and what makes them tick.
Here are some posts of mine that quickly come to mind reflecting on something of youth culture:
Tim’s Take on Terrigal Teenagers
What the Central Coast needs
Erina Fair & Central Coast Culture
Engaging with culture
Gen Y SMS
The [...]
This gold nugget is from John Anderson’s final Parliamentary speech:
Dawkins and Hitchins et al would have us believe that the problem is that we have not been secular enough. They would say that we ought to be more secular. As I see it, we gave secularism a great run in the 20th century. We tried [...]