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Our Government at Work, Again: AIG

Last Updated March 18, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

I’ve been really busy the past couple of days. The next post in the building a church website series will get posted tomorrow or Friday. Now, on to AIG. I’m quite disturbed by what I’m hearing. On of the reasons I didn’t like either of the bailouts (the one last fall by Paulson and the […]

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One for the History Books

Last Updated October 4, 2008 by Matt Leave a Comment

Will October 3, 2008 go down in the history books?  Will this be the day our country was fundamentally changed? Yesterday was my day off, and I spent a lot of it listening to radio shows and watching news coverage of the bill passed by congress that will supposedly help out the economy.  It will […]

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The Bailout, Education, and Youth Ministry

Last Updated September 26, 2008 by Matt 5 Comments

[Note: If your head is in the sand and don’t know what is going on in the economy and the government right now, go to your favorite news website.  It will be on the front page.  I promise.  Read up.] On Sunday morning during Sunday school, I asked my high school students, some of whom […]

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An Alternative to the $700 Billion Plan

Last Updated September 23, 2008 by Matt Leave a Comment

I don’t much like the idea of the government playing in the markets with $700 billion.  For a possibile alternative, check out this link.  Let me know what you think.

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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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