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Charities and Lutherans

Last Updated December 16, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

Did you know that the U.S. donates almost $1.4 trillion dollars to charity every year? Or that the charity that has the highest revenue is Lutheran Services in America at $16.6 billion? I didn’t either. All this is according to Mint.com, which I found over at Adam McLane’s blog. Go there for lots of more […]

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The Perfect Church Email Solution?

Last Updated September 29, 2009 by Matt 15 Comments

So, I thought this would be easy. I’m looking for a church email list management solution that I thought would be pretty simple. But apparently the features I want aren’t that easy to find. Here’s what I’m looking for: The ability to send emails to different segments of a master list (youth, prayer requests, announcements, […]

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Friday Frivolty

Last Updated June 19, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

I’m not feeling too creative today, so here’s a pretty amazing video that probably took way too much time to make. Come back next week for a series on a trinitarian model of youth ministry.

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ELCA Names

Last Updated June 11, 2009 by Matt 6 Comments

I’ve noticed since joining an ELCA church three years ago that the groups in the ELCA do not seem compelled like other Christian groups to come up with cool names for their organizations. You know, some might call their older groups something catchy like “Prime Time.” In the ELCA, it seems like we use only […]

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The Ultimate Ubiquitous Capture Device?

Last Updated May 25, 2009 by Matt 3 Comments

In case you didn’t know, I’m a subscriber (though not necessarily a hardcore enthusiastic legalist) to David Allen’s personal productivity system for Getting Things Done (for an introduction to this system, go here). Over the past couple of years, I’ve played with different ways to implement the system, from an all-paper system to a hybrid […]

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Twitter Life for the Week of 2009-05-10

Last Updated May 10, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

Doing a little blog maintenance and updating. # Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/luthermergent to join # @jakebouma how’s that? in reply to jakebouma # Beginning my morning with some Phyllis Tickle. http://bit.ly/2VLAe # Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #youthministry #lutheran #theology # @ypguybrit maybe if you twitter more you can […]

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TED.com: Antisocial Cell Phone Behavior

Last Updated May 4, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

This is a really short video from TED.com (under 4 minutes) on the implications of people always being connected with their phone. Packed into this short talk are some profound topics and assertions: The rise of the culture of availability An expectation of availability An obligation of availability Behaviors we use to hide our addiction […]

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Twitter Life for the Week of 2009-05-03

Last Updated May 3, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

FAFSAizing. Ugh. # It’s been a demanding weekend. Good, but demanding. Feels good to relax this afternoon and evening. # RIP Pontiac http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/27/autos/pontiac_obit/index.htm?postversion=2009042711 # @ypguybrit whoa, that’s kinda ahead of time. Way to go. in reply to ypguybrit # @scottlenger Thanks for the RT on http://tinyurl.com/c8yl4d in reply to scottlenger # @jakebouma Thanks for the […]

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Twitter Life for 2009-04-26

Last Updated April 26, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

@YouthMinBlog tatango. # going home to get some reading done # Finally read YM 3.0 by Marko today. Mixed thoughts. Review forthcoming. # Uh oh. Work PC is doing weird things. Don’t ask if I’ve backed up. # If my PC ever fires back up, I’m thinking Mozy. Other recommendations for online backups? # @savagehowie […]

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Dallas Independent School District is a Joke

Last Updated April 18, 2009 by Matt 2 Comments

I don’t live in the boundaries of DISD, but it is by far the largest school district in our metroplex area, so it gets all of the media coverage. And for good reason. They are clueless. I have lived in the area for less than three years, and in that amount of time, these stories […]

Filed Under: News, Random Tagged With: DISD, education

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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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