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If you feel like you're family is crazy, you'd be happy to know that you are in good company. The Bible is full of people that have family situations that would put most of ours to shame.
Because we all have crazy families, full of sinful people, it often feels like we are just trying to survive. This series is about what the Bible has to say about how we interact with our families.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx1-q0KP3NI This fall for one of our middle school events we are going to be taking our students to an indoor trampoline park called Sky Zone. I just recently heard of them popping up all over the place and was pumped to find out that we have one less than an hour away. I've never been to one, but I can't imagine it not being a hit. What could be better than tons of trampolines to play dodgeball, basketball, and do flips on.
Have you been to a Sky Zone yet? What did you think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KQb3Mx2WMw I have read articles, books, and blog posts about the teenage brain several times, but none of those quite compare to this video of Rainn Wilson (Dwight from the Office) explaining why teenagers are the way they are. The teenage brain is incredibly fascinating and greatly affects how we minister to students. If you work with teenagers in any capacity or are a parent of teenagers, I think you'll find this video amusing.
While a clear, compelling vision is certainly important, we would do much better focus first on the people on our team and let the vision follow.
Over the past week I have been hanging out with our high school ministry in South Carolina at Myrtle Beach. Despite a flu virus hitting 1/3 of our group, the students had an incredible time.
This week our creative team decided to get together and do some Christmas planning. And yes, I do realize it's July.
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If you could have a conversation with your 12 year old self, what would you say to yourself? Think back to when you were only twelve years old, what did you care most about? What were the biggest worries in your life? What did you want to be when you grew up? As someone who spends a lot of time with students that are around that age, I often have to try to remind myself what I was like when I was 12. There are certainly some differences to being 12 now versus being 12 when I was a kid, but there are also many things that haven't changed.
What would 12 year old you say to you?
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I've be re-reading Good to Great by Jim Collins again. The insights made by Jim Collins describing what separates a good organization from a great one are incredible. Collins notes in the early chapters of the book that great organizations are run by level 5 leaders and create a culture of level 5 leadership within their team, while good organizations have excellent level 4 leaders. A Level 5 leader is a leader that combines humility and an enduring will. While we commonly think of great leaders as being ambitious, charismatic, and innovative, the truth is the best leaders are humble, want to stay out of the spotlight, always give credit to their team, and take the blame when things go wrong.
The primary role of the preacher is to take their lives, the scriptures, and other people's works and curate them into the sermon.
One of the most important jobs that a leader has is finding other leaders and giving them an opportunity to lead.
During middle school, there is more change than any other time of your life. This week we focused on when things change for the worse.
These 3 creative companies have great principles that could be valuable for most ministries.
This video is testimony to the fact that it is not difficult for us to find devices that can record high quality video in our ministries.