Yesterday I participated in the webinar with Youth Specialties president Mark Ostreicher about the significant changes happening at the National Youth Workers Convention this year, all of which get me pretty excited. If you missed the conversation you can watch the video by clicking here. Apparently there are going to be more of these types […]
Further Thoughts on Youth Ministry Compensation
Yesterday I posted my thoughts on youth ministry compensation, and a lot of great discussion took place! I was trying to offer an alternative to approaching compensation as a cause and effect relationship where we get paid in order to complete certain tasks. Such a approach in ministry settings leaves a lot to be desired […]
NYWC Conference Call Today
This is a complimentary MattCleaver.com public service announcement for all those youth ministry types who are more likely to check their RSS readers than their calendars: Today from 11:00 AM – Noon Pacific Time is the National Youth Workers Convention conference call with Marko. I’m not sure if it’s still too late to register for […]
Youth Ministry Compensation
I’m about to start a series of blog posts in the near future on traits and habits of a successful youth minister, and as I was brainstorming for those posts I got to thinking about the nature of a full-time professional youth minister. And, just like almost any other church staff position, youth ministry really […]
TED.com: Antisocial Cell Phone Behavior
This is a really short video from TED.com (under 4 minutes) on the implications of people always being connected with their phone. Packed into this short talk are some profound topics and assertions: The rise of the culture of availability An expectation of availability An obligation of availability Behaviors we use to hide our addiction […]
Linkworthy – 5/3/09
“I don’t know” – Three words that are likely ruining your life. Sustainable Youth Ministry vs. Youth Ministry 3.0 – A popular youth ministry book smackdown. 30 days of missions devotionals for teens – Tim Schmoyer points us to this 30-day devotional. I haven’t looked at it closely, but it’s free. It is probably at […]
Twitter Life for the Week of 2009-05-03
FAFSAizing. Ugh. # It’s been a demanding weekend. Good, but demanding. Feels good to relax this afternoon and evening. # RIP Pontiac http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/27/autos/pontiac_obit/index.htm?postversion=2009042711 # @ypguybrit whoa, that’s kinda ahead of time. Way to go. in reply to ypguybrit # @scottlenger Thanks for the RT on http://tinyurl.com/c8yl4d in reply to scottlenger # @jakebouma Thanks for the […]
Sermon: “Jesus Eats Fish”
I had the privilege of preaching last Sunday on the Gospel text of the week, Luke 24:36-48. I have only preached a handful of times at Hope, and I’ve been experimenting with different styles of preaching: preaching from manuscripts vs. outlines, doing verse-by-verse exegesis vs. theological explorations, and so on. This time I preached from […]
Mission Accomplished
At the beginning of April I made a commitment to post at least once a day for the whole month. Yesterday, I accomplished that, and actually had two extra posts. I was curious to see how posting everyday would change my website statistics compared to March, when I posted 16 times, so it’s not like […]
Why Seminaries are Irrelevant: A Postscript
The last two days I wrote a two-part series giving 13 reasons why I think seminaries are becoming irrelevant for training church leaders (read Part 1 and Part 2). However, when reading through the comments, I think I need to make a few clarifications and assertions: I love academia. This has nothing to do with […]
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