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I Don’t Understand Twitter…

Last Updated May 4, 2008 by Matt 2 Comments

…but it’s finally starting to catch on pretty big.  I’ll have to give it a shot and see what I think.

Filed Under: Personal, Random

Earning My Lutheran Credentials

Last Updated May 2, 2008 by Matt 1 Comment

A little personal news: So, I was one of our church’s two official delegates to our Synod Assembly last weekend, which means I got to vote on stuff for our synod. While I was there, my pastors nominated me to a position (under-30 lay male) that would allow me to be one of our synod’s […]

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A Breath of Fresh Air

Last Updated April 16, 2008 by Matt 1 Comment

I’ve been really distracted lately, trying to do some random things with my time that have been really draining on me personally. I don’t really want to get into specifics right now, but I was just too busy. My busyness gave me no time left over to do the things I’ve come to love doing […]

Filed Under: Blogging, Personal

Updating

Last Updated April 9, 2008 by Matt 1 Comment

The productivity push went mildly well.  But, as you can tell, it looks like my productivity push has relegated blogging to its proper priority in my life, which is pretty low right now.  Maybe next week I can get back to writing. That is all.

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Productivity Push

Last Updated March 7, 2008 by Matt 3 Comments

Blah.  That’s pretty much where I’ve been lately. Just blah. Not sad, not happy, just blah.  And I think part of it is that I want to do so many things with my work, life, house, classes writing, whatever, and I look at the calendar and another month has gone by and I haven’t taken […]

Filed Under: Personal, Random Tagged With: Getting Things Done, GTD, productivity

My Most Random Post Ever

Last Updated February 23, 2008 by Matt Leave a Comment

I haven’t been happy with myself lately. I feel like I’m not managing my time very well. I’ve got all these things going on and I feel like I’m doing all (well, maybe most) of them very crappily. I’ve gotten a bit behind in my GTD system, which could be part of the problem. I […]

Filed Under: Personal, Random Tagged With: Politics, time management, basketball, Books, Getting Things Done, GTD, NCAA

Meeting Your Neighbors

Last Updated December 10, 2007 by Matt 2 Comments

I’ve been busy lately. Very busy. I have somehow gotten involved in a group of about 30 people (and there might really be closer to 15 who are really working hard at this) who are trying to organize about 2,000 homeowners in our area in order to negotiate an agreement with gas companies who want […]

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More Thoughts on Worship Services

Last Updated November 30, 2007 by Matt 4 Comments

I made a whiney post the other day about a worship service the youth and I did. And Dr. C pointed out, as she always does, the root of the matter. So I went back and reread my post and it did seem really whiney, short-sighted and results-oriented. I’m definitely not a “results” man (at […]

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Welcome to MattCleaver.com!

Last Updated November 28, 2007 by Matt 7 Comments

So, here she is, the new blog. I decided to go with a self-hosted blog to give me the flexibility to do whatever I wanted, like put javascript in my sidebar. It’s not too fancy, but this is a content-driven blog, not a place for me to perfect my Web 2.0 skills. So, I wanted […]

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Introducing MattCleaver.com

Last Updated November 28, 2007 by Matt Leave a Comment

Mattopia.wordpress.com is now closed. Head on over to MattCleaver.com for my new blog. Don’t worry, all my loyal fans. All the old content has been imported to the new site. And for the four of you who subscribe to the RSS feed, the new feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/mattcleaver.

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Best Youth Ministry Books

These are the books that will completely change the way you think about youth ministry, for the better. Links are to my reviews of each book.

Teen 2.0 by Robert Epstein

A psychologist makes you question every assumption you have about adolescence.

Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry by Andrew Root

Why build relationships? Root’s answer will surprise you.

Best Youth Ministry Books: Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher

Yesterday I finally read Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Ostreicher, and since I’m one of the latecomers to the conversation I won’t summarize the book too much. Marko has linked to tons of reviews on his blog if you are interested in more in-depth summaries. If you are fairly in-tune with a lot of the […]

Best Youth Ministry Books: Postmodern Youth Ministry

Postmodern Youth Ministry by Tony Jones is the book I would recommend to youth ministers if they could just read one youth ministry book. I first read the book in my Foundations and Practices of Youth Ministry class at John Brown University. After the preface to the book there is a page titled, “The Day […]

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