Here’s part 2 of Dan Burrell’s post. Part 1 was just a few posts earlier on my site.

It was discouraging to see the CNN headline this morning: “Reality TV stars Jon and Kate are divorcing.” It broke the news that Jon and Kate Gosselin have separated now but will continue to film the show!  They apparently will film separately with the kids for the remainder of the season.
This is discouraging because the [...]

There are no words to describe what it felt like to receive the tragic news of the passing of Mary Katherine Abernathy.  It is tough to deal with the death of any young person and Mary Katherine is no different.  Her vibrant personality made her fun to be around and will be deeply missed.  I’m [...]

A friend sent me a link to an interesting article on the history of prayer breakfasts.  For those who like historical factoids, you might enjoy this article: “What With All the Prayer Breakfasts?”

Dan Burrell, professor of one of my classes at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, posted this on his blog today.  I think it’s a great article and appreciate his writing.  It’s very true in many ways.  I can’t wait for part 2!  Read it here.

Hopefully you’ll find this post to be as humorous and stereotypical as I did about what’s going on in the minds of our teenagers.  Last Wednesday wrapped up a discussion series we were doing at Bethel.  I asked the students to write down what they would like to discuss over the next 3 weeks we’re [...]

I saw this on Church Crunch’s site, and thought it was worth sharing.  Pretty good!
What if God had text messaged the 10 Commandments? It might look like this:

no1 b4 me. srsly.
dnt wrshp pix/idols
no omg’s
no wrk on w/end (sat 4 now; sun l8r)
pos ok – ur m&d r cool
dnt kill ppl
[...]

There are many reason why I line up with and choose to serve in the Southern Baptist denomination (SBC), but this post is not to talk about all of those.
However, I will say that one reason I love the SBC is because of the abundance of resources provided by association and state level missionaries and [...]

Yesterday our church honored our high school graduates during and after our morning worship.  It was a great day to celebrate with our graduates and their families while providing an opportunity for a connection to be made between our church and the young people in it.  Here’s how it worked:
Every quarter, the church holds a [...]

On Tuesday, May 12, the BCMD invited Dan Kimball to lead a day-long session with those who attended to talk about our churches having an impact on our communities. I was able to attend, and I was very glad to have done so.

Though every idea from every person isn’t applicable to every ministry, Dan [...]

Last night (Saturday, May 9) was the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. This seems to be a light-hearted, fun event, and has always been a place for our president, other politicians, and media personnel to joke and have fun while raising funds for charitable causes. You can read about it here.

President Obama [...]

I’ve never seen anyone play the flute like this!  Who would have thought the flute could be this cool?!!?

So with all the hype and panic lately over this “swine” flu, many people are scared out of their minds.  But it just seems like a small problem compared to many other diseases and causes of deaths where people will die today.  Anyway, this picture was circulating around the internet and I thought I’d post [...]

There are 6 of these videos which are just hilarious!  Check them out by clicking here.

I’m writing today excited because of a discovery made in Scripture today by a middle school girl, which was an awesome teachable moment for the entire Bible study group!  Let me preface this discovery by saying this-
I ordered a copy of Dr. Allen Jackson’s new book “Teach” a little over a month ago to try [...]

This past Wednesday, I led a discussion with teenagers about one of the most basic concepts in Christianity- the Trinity.  We hear about the Trinity all the time, but it has to be one of the most difficult concepts to completely grasp.  In fact, I don’t completly understand the depths of it, but I understand [...]

I haven’t posted a blog in quite a while- mainly because I’ve been taking time out to learn how to be a dad!  But I’ll be back at it now, so hopefully my faithful few readers will be happy that there will be new content.
On a college mission trip to Raleigh, NC, during spring break, [...]

Here’s what I subscribe to right now in my RSS feeds via Google Reader, and I recommend them all (love this on my iGoogle homepage so I can see all my updates as soon as I open Firefox):

Adam Feldman blog my friend Adam’s writings

Challies.com especially for the “a la carte.”
Church Crunch technology and the church
Church [...]

It’s time for me to write this, and everything I’m writing here was inspired by this Scripture:
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be [...]

I’m writing this post not as an expert, but because I was asked by someone where to start now that he started working with the youth in his church. I thought about this question and realized it was not easy to answer! So I thought I would put together a list of resources [...]

I must admit that I stole the title of this post from Dave Cheong. You can find his post here, and its a valuable read.
My friend Earl taught me the value of “cross-over principles.” He introduced me to writings outside of ministry that have so many basic lessons in them that could be [...]

“For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according [...]

You have to watch this funny video!

I had a startling discovery nearly a month ago- I’m in the worst shape of my life!  I used to be pretty fit.  I was very athletic in school and in shape.  But since college and then marriage, staying fit just sort of got pushed to the back of the list of priorities.  Especially with [...]