Worship Setlist 10.7.09
Alastair Vance leading on Vox and Guitar tonight. Here is the setlist: Praise Is Rising From The Inside Out Take All Of Me Surrender The message tonight is on Consequences which is part of a video driven series called Choose from BluefishTV featuring Marcus Goodloe as the speaker and stories from various teenagers about addiction to sex, drugs, and porn. Tough stuff tonight but worth →
Teens and the Internet
According to this article from the Telegraph teens spend an average of 31 hours a week on the internet and nearly two hours a week looking at porn. I wonder if this was a survey style or actually a tracking style of getting the information. I would think the numbers higher. In fact it does not mention online game playing that →
24 Hour Counselor Help
I was really excited that I found the perfect resource for our teens to use when they needed to talk with someone and they could not reach one of our adult leaders. It's a 24 Hour Counselor that's available, well... 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Wrong. It's a page of articles put out by lifeway where teens can click →
A Moment with God
Tonight we talked about hope during Refuge. I think God took this last week of study and thought to remind me that I need to put my hope back in him as I told our students. With out hope we have nothing. Our politicians will fail us, our friends, they will fail us too, and our families as well. When we →
FOR the city
The Austin Stone is not going to be just a church in the city of Austin…it’s going to be a church FOR the city of Austin. I read these words over on Bush's blog yesterday and I feel God really convicting me about this as it relates to our church and more specifically REFUGE our student ministry here. What would happen →
100 Blog Topics I Hope You Write
I saw this post topic over @ Life in Student Ministry today and I'm going to take up the challenge and write on 2 of these topics a week from top to bottom over the course of the next 50 weeks. This is a big challenge for me really my blog as of late has been as people have said →
Back to School
Our students here in Williston kicked their 2nd semester off Thursday and headed back to the grind of school. Today I dropped by to see how things where going and let me tell you they are excited about the weekend! ;) Really, it brought a joy to my heart to walk around the schools and just spend time with teens outside →
Wendy's & Youth Ministry
Brian Eberly is at the National Youth Workers Conference this week and has posted some info over on his blog that I find interesting. Check it out! Here is a blurb from it. "Youth Ministry 3.0 (today) needs to by Not Driven. Instead of being driven we need to be present. We as youth workers need to be present with God →