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Writing a Sermon on Paper

Last Updated October 15, 2009 by Matt 5 Comments

I preached this past Sunday, and due to certain circumstances I started writing my sermon on paper. My wife Alicia was interviewing on Friday for a residency next year and I went with her (mostly for the free meals). There were four separate interviews scheduled, so I thought that would give me some good time […]

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2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly: Thoughts from One in the Minority

Last Updated August 21, 2009 by Matt 23 Comments

“With the vote today, there was no ontological change in the church catholic or the ELCA” I am going to reveal my voting record pertaining to the resolutions regarding sexuality at this year’s ELCA Churchwide Assembly in order to hopefully offer some helpful perspective. I expect that my friends on both sides of the issue […]

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Free Burma

Last Updated October 4, 2007 by Matt 1 Comment

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Cars to be Powered by… Magic?

Last Updated September 22, 2006 by Matt

CNNMoney.com has an interesting feature on 11 companies with 11 ideas that will drastically alter the way we live our lives and could potentially hurt some majoy corporations.  All eleven are quite interesting.  One of the ideas that caught my brain and got me thinking was an automobile power source that:  Uses no gasoline Uses electricity, […]

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Moving…

Last Updated September 20, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

. I am now blogging at a new location. Go there! .

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3108: Blog Day

Last Updated September 1, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

I’ve been trying to come up with a good day to start posting again (in addition to finding the proper motivation). Since graduating in May, I haven’t had a chance to do much writing, and I’ve been missing it noticeably. So, blogging is a good avenue for me to hopefully keep my writing skills sharp. […]

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Galatians a la ESV

Last Updated February 9, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

I decided I wanted to use the ESV version next to read through Galatians and found a website that had the ESV in audio format, so I listened to the book of Galatians today.  It was nice to hear the word out loud and not be distracted by footnotes, verse numbers, and section heading.  Since this was […]

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Galatians a la HCSB

Last Updated February 7, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

A few random observations as I read through Galatians using the Holman Christian Standard Bible: 1:1 – Paul is an apostle not ordained by men, but by God. In fact, later in chapter 1 he goes on to mention that he did not seek out the other apostles after Christ reveals himself to Paul. I […]

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Academics vs. Practitioners

Last Updated February 6, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

In addition to all of my Galatians writing, I plan on doing some general writing as well, so this post falls into this category.   I was sitting in class today wondering why it is that academia has such an influential role in the church when I realized that your average pastor doesn’t have close to […]

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Galatians a la NASB

Last Updated February 3, 2006 by Matt Leave a Comment

The style of the NASB, which I appreciate for intense study and exegesis, doesn’t make for good reading when consuming mass quantities of scripture.  I found myself having to go back and reread a lot of verses because of the odd wording of some sentences.  Nevertheless, it was a good experience, and I will try to read […]

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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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