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Admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:00:16 +0000

“God’s original purpose is not our salvation or the evangelization of others; it is that we glorify God by reflecting God’s image through expression of the spiritual, intelligent, creative, moral and relational capacities uniquely imprinted on humans. This creation mandate has never been rescinded.” –Dick Staub, The Culturally Savvy Christian

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Consumerist Compassion

“To get one of those beautiful bags, pair of earrings or bracelets made by women and children rescued out of human trafficking, you have to actually go and spend a week making them. Go and give that recently rescued sex slave a day off and you make the conflict-free jewelry that day. Go and be with her, hear her story, make her dinner, watch her children for one day. Then you would really have a story! “Merry Christmas, Mom. I worked for four days with former sex slaves to make your necklace. Enjoy!” Priceless.”

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Admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:23:35 +0000

“I would like to think that when I pronounce the benediction at the end of our services, I am sending dangerous people back into their natural habitats to wreak havoc on the enemy.” –Mark Batterson, Neue Quarterly, Issue 01

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Is 26 the New 18?

Will the new healthcare reform redefine adulthood for youth ministry?

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Admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:29:51 +0000

“More important, he (Cardinal John O’Connor) truly lived the old line‘Hate the sin, love the sinner.’ You can’t fully appreciate that line until you saw someone like the Cardinal, who really lived that life. Whatever his position on gay rights, he was more than active in New York’s AIDS hospices. He dedicated a major facility at one of the archdiocese’s hospitals to caring for AIDS patients, and he would visit, unannounced, to care for patients, washing them, changing their bedpans.

He attended to thousands of patients over the years. In our book, I wrote that the difference between me and the Cardinal was that he was in the business of saving souls, while I was in the business of saving lives. On rereading the book recently, I had to apologize for that one line. He saved more lives than I ever could have.” –Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City, Newsweek, May 15, 2000

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Do Programs Help or Hinder?

“We can organize more and more ministries—worship experiences, Bible classes, small-group fellowships, support groups, outreach opportunities, missison encounter—and yet, for all this, we still struggle with the most basic goal: fostering spiritual growth.”

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Admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:37:36 +0000

“How does it make you feel to consider that aspiring artists are looking to you and your bandmates as mentors of sorts?” His answer was, “mentors… hmmm…I always go back to 6th grade when I think about my heroes. I grew up with surf posters hanging on my walls: Curren, Slater, Occy. I watched them on TV, read about them in surfer mags, and breathed them in–every turn,every logo, every smile. Have they impacted the way I live my life today? A little, but they’re mostly just a piece of the past. But there is another type of mentor–one that stays with you. I’d like to be this type. You see, I’ve never had a picture of C.S. Lewis or my ninth grade history teacher or my dad hung up on my wall, but these men have had a significant impact on the way I live today.” –Jon Foreman of Switchfoot, CCMMagazine.com

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Shaun White, Glee and The Rise of the Anti-Cool

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Admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:01:18 +0000

“Never live for those exceptional moments–they are surprises. God will give us His touches of inspiration only when He sees that we are not in danger of being led away by them. We must never consider our moments of inspiration as the standard way of life–our work is our standard.” –Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

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Florida Church Sponsors Pubic School

“At Christmas, the school provided First Baptist with a list of parents who said they wouldn’t mind being visited by church members.”

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Admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:00:24 +0000

“No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.” –Thomas Edison, requoted in Time, April 5, 2007

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10 Reasons to Under-Program Your Church

#2 – “Over-programming creates an illusion of fruitfulness that may just be busy-ness. A bustling crowd may not be spiritually changed or engaged in mission at all. And as our flesh cries out for works, many times filling our programs with eager, even servant-minded people is a way to appeal to self-righteousness.”

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Admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:38:23 +0000

“The Glory of God is a man fully alive.” –St. Irenaeus of Lyons

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Tying the Clouds Together

“Rather than shrinking our vision, the text (Bible) should become a pair of eyes with which we are able to see even more. There’s a great big world out there with quantum physics, and architecture, and economic theory, and the thread count of clothing, and the fact that refrigerators in Europe are smaller—all of these seemingly random events and occurrences and happenings are all connected and help us see how this really is God’s world.”

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Admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:33:33 +0000

Wild Frontier Living Foundational Quote: Every other human being has no choice but to bow to their human limitations. Only believers can draw upon God’s supernatural power to live beyond their limits. –Brenda Seefeldt

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Jesus Isn’t Cool

“But teens don’t need Jesus to be crucified and raised from the dead to have positive outcomes and pursue family friendly alternatives to MTV.”

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Admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:31:10 +0000

“I’ve lost my cynicism about evangelical groups partly because I’ve seen them at work abroad.” –Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times columnist, Christianity Today, July 8, 2002

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Experiential Learning in Youth Ministry

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Admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:28:02 +0000

“Youth ministry is about holding a young person’s deepest identity until he or she is able to see it too.” –Mark Yaconelli, Contemplative Youth Ministry

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What Will the Church Be Like in Ten Years?

“Such churches give careful attention to quality events and activities for teenagers, but always view them as secondary in importance to immersing teenagers in relationships with a few godly adults. These churches know that spiritual transformation is much more likely from integrity relationships between teenagers and adults than from events and activities.”