Last week I attended Creation Festival with 100,000 of my closest friends. Well, maybe not my closest friends, but that’s how many people were in attendance during the four-day festival.
I went with five members of my church’s youth group, a friend of one of the members and another leader. We had a group [...]
Last night, at the end of my young adult group’s Bible study, one of the members told everyone about an interesting video on GodTube. The video is an excerpt of Louie Giglio’s message “How Great is Our God!” and it focuses on laminin, one of the proteins in the human body.
Here’s the video (8m 44s):
Colossians [...]
After I finally finished reading a book I’d been working on for a few months, I went through the books in my “To Read” pile and chose Doug Fields’ What Matters Most: When NO Is Better Than YES.
I’d heard about this book quite some time ago on the Simply Youth Ministry Podcast and it had [...]
Earlier this week, I finally finished Praise Habit: Finding God in Sunsets and Sushi by David Crowder of David Crowder*Band fame. It took me much longer to read than I’d hoped/anticipated, but it was worth the wait.
The book focuses on redefining how we think about praising God; instead of being an event, Crowder suggests [...]
Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to attend Youth Specialties‘ The Core 2008: Generation Change with my pastor and two of my fellow youth volunteers at Camp Hill UMC.
Overall, the event was pretty decent, though I didn’t think it was as good as the previous week’s conference at Messiah College or a training held by [...]
Last Sunday was Christ UMC’s annual Youth Sunday, the one Sunday of the year where the youth have complete (or at least almost complete) control over our worship services.
This year, the youth and leaders decided on a theme of “Jesus is our hope.” The idea primarily came from a popular YouTube video that shows [...]
I’ve finally had an opportunity to compile my notes from last week’s 3rd Annual Messiah College Youth Workers Conference, so I’m ready to post a wrap-up of the event.
The highlight of my day was most definitely the keynote speech (broken up into two parts) by Kenda Creasy Dean, a professor and the director of the [...]
Friday evening, I had the good fortunate of attending The Altar & The Door Tour at Hersheypark Arena featuring Casting Crowns, Leeland and John Waller.
The concert was over three hours long (including two brief intermissions), with John Waller performing for about 20 minutes and Leeland for about 45 minutes. That left two full hours [...]
Tonight I finished reading another book that Josh Griffin recommended, The Blogging Church by Brian Bailey and Terry Storch.
While I thought the book was great and very informative, I didn’t get quite as much out of it as Josh did, perhaps because the book really needs to be in the hands of other members of [...]
At this week’s Bible study with The Gap, we spoke briefly about how we have grown/regressed spiritually over the past year. That got me thinking: how do you measure spiritual growth? I’d never really thought about that before and now I’m wondering how, if at all, I’ve grown spirituallly throughout the past year.I’m interested in [...]
