One of the last pieces of our youth Maundy Thursday worship service. Prayer seems like an appropriate thing to do on this Holy Saturday. After washing the disciples feet, after eating the Last Supper, Jesus finds himself in the Garden of Gethsemane, doing what he often does: praying. He prays for us, his disciples, knowing […]
A Maundy Thursday Meditation: The Last Supper
This is another part of our worship service from last night regarding the Last Supper. It seems fitting on this Good Friday. On this night we remember the meal that Jesus gave us, the meal that we celebrate every week. A piece of bread, a sip of wine. This is the body and blood of […]
A Maundy Thursday Meditation: Washing One Another’s Feet
I wrote the following for a portion of our youth’s Maundy Thursday worship service. We based the service off of Bonhoeffers famous quote, “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” We tried as best we could to make the worship service feel like a funeral and tried to tie in the […]
Celebrating Easter with a Cage Match
From the “Why I think Relevance is a Myth” file, a church seeking to be relevant this Easter. Per the church website: For years the church has taught us to be “the nice guy” when we have really been called to be Ultimate Fighters. But what do we fight for? Join us on Easter and […]
The ELCA’s Brand Campaign
Last week the ELCA announced the launch of a brand campaign, which immediately caught my attention. You can view all of the ads that the ELCA will be running in various television, print, outdoor, and online advertisements by clicking here. I must say that as far as church advertisements go, these are actually pretty good. […]
Annual and Monthly Youth Ministry Reports
For those of us employed in youth ministry, we inevitably need some way to report on how well we are doing our jobs. The easiest way to do that is to list events, meetings, one-on-one time, and count them up and report the numbers how many people were at the events. If you’ve been reading […]
Linkworthy – 4/5/09
A theologian on the economy – If you like heady stuff, this might be for you. Advice to Pastors and Churches – Rick’s blog is pure gold. He and his family are looking for a church to join and he offers his own commentary. why i say your church tech stuff is lame – While […]
A Modern Day Solomon
If you haven’t stumbled onto TED.com, you must. The videos there are pure genius. The one below was particularly applicable to ministry, as Barry Schwartz deals with the real need in our society today: wisdom. A few of the things he talks about are: Incentives – He says that incentives oftentimes lower people’s participation. Are […]
Get a Free Logo Tomorrow
Shawn-Weston and I were suitemates in college, and he’s apparently doing freelance graphic design work. Monthly he’s offering people who participate in his “Saturday Freebird” a free service. It looks like he’s giving away his free service to as many people as possible, not just one random winner. So, it might be prudent for you […]
Theology in Real Life
As I said in my last post, I am taking a basic theology class in seminary right now, and almost every week we have some case study about how to deal with varying theological problems and heresies that might appear in our churches. As this class progresses, I am seeing a pattern in my responses: […]
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