Why doesn’t our teaching seem to stick?
WHY YOUTH MINISTRY MUST BE HIGHLY RELATIONAL AND EXPERIENTIAL
Last Monday I attended a seminar by Todd Hall, Ph.D., and Mark Matlock’s Wisdom Works…
Making positive first impressions on youth group visitors
Mark Batterson wrote about their bulletin’s facelift. He said, “Bulletins are first impression pieces so we take it pretty seriously.”
I…
Issues in Youth Ministry: Greg Stier
What do you see as some of the main issues youth ministry is struggling with today?
A solvent and solid theology of youth ministry as family ministry. I’m…
How to eliminate all spam mail for free
My youth group e-mail address gets a lot of spam, so much that I avoid checking it until I have to just because I hate sifting through all the junk. (Seriously…
Move over MySpace, Facebook is #1 among teenagers
Research by eMarketer.com shows that all the hype over MySpace is quickly dying as teenagers and young adults favor Facebook as the #1 visited website among…
Side-by-side comparison of free video hosting services
For a while now I’ve been trying to figure out which is the best online video to use for my video. I’ve been using [tag]YouTube[/tag] mostly just…
How the Internet affects my right brain
Throughout college and seminary I noticed I was a little different than most of my classmates. Most of them would vigorously take notes, copying down word for…
Essential WordPress Plugins
Akismet: Filters all those nasty spam comments.
IImage Browser: Great tool for uploading and organizing images for your blog posts.
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Pray for even the little things
Last weekend my father-in-law gave me an old laptop (PII 266 MHz, 128 MB memory, 6 GB HDD). I promptly removed Windows 98 in order to install the lightweight…
How to organize draft posts for your blog
WordPress is a phenomenal blogging system that I love deeply, but it really does a poor job of organizing all my draft posts. They’re all just lined up…