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Spontaneous Blog-Fast Now Over

Last Updated January 7, 2007 by Matt 1 Comment

I decided to take a one month blog-fast beginning December 9. After I wrote my post that day, I thought it would be good to just forget about the blog for a little while. Ok, yeah, I’m just kidding. In reality I’ve just been really lazy and busy and haven’t posted anything. But “blog-fast” sounds […]

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Man…

Last Updated December 22, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

I’ve been slacking with the ol’ blog the last couple of weeks. I’m going to try and get something up today. [Update: It’s looking like I won’t get a post in today. I’m about to run to church to get things ready for our Advent Labyrinth tonight. Unless that takes less time than I expect, […]

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Icy Driving

Last Updated November 30, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

Since we are experiencing a little winter storm here in DFW, I thought I would offer a public service announcement: If anyone happens to be watching WFAA’s news and weather coverage today, the traffic lady has been saying over and over to leave plenty of room between you and the car in front of you: […]

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I… can’t… talk…

Last Updated November 9, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

So, maybe I need to lay off the books for a little while (yeah, right).  Last night at church, during “Cross-Examination” (a nifty title I came up with for a discussion group where we examine cultural phenomena in light of the gospel), I simply could not talk.  Well, it’s not that I couldn’t talk, but […]

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Scot McKnight at JBU

Last Updated November 8, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

Being a recent graduate (May ’06) of John Brown University, as well as having a brother there who is a freshman, I still keep fairly informed about what happens on campus. One of my habits while a student was to skim over the list of chapel speakers for the upcoming semester as soon as it […]

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Light Posting…

Last Updated November 5, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

Yeah, so, it’s been a little sparse here lately.  I don’t really know what to say about that other than I’m just really undisciplined. Workin’ on it…

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Halloween

Last Updated November 1, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

So, I bought pounds of candy to hand out to the little hoodlums in our neighborhood tonight. Thus far, the doorbell has rung twice. Crap.

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Odd…

Last Updated October 24, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

Hmmm, noticed something interesting today.  Now, I make no qualms about being an uber-blogger.  I mainly write for my own edification because I just don’t like the feeling of trying to pimp my blog to get people to read it.  I think there might be two people in the world who I’ve told about my blog.  […]

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Arg…

Last Updated October 13, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

I’ve not been very happy with myself lately. It seems as if I’ve been having trouble being productive recently. And by productive I simply mean getting done what I have to get done in the time I have alotted for myself to do it. I tell myself, “I need to get [X] finished by [Y] […]

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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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