Tim Weston

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]