During Followers 2010-2011, the students interacted with phrases, verses and Bible stories. On the last day of Followers, we had the students write down some practical applications of actually practicing these principles in real life. This series “Quotes from kids” will share what the kids wrote: Say it Phrase: After getting teased and shoved, I […]
A while back I heard about a sermon on silence in which a teacher did not say a word. On the screen behind him, the slides “spoke” the message about silence. It’s teaching about a topic using the very construct of the message itself. That combination of intentionality in content as well as delivery can […]
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If you like imagining possibilities in education… If you enjoy experimenting and taking risks in teaching… If you don’t mind thinking outside the box… …then you’ll probably find Sugata Mitra’s TED Talk @ TED Global 2010 fascinating. I’d be interested in your thoughts… source TED.com
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On Sunday, August 14, 2011, I preached a sermon entitled: “What’s the Point?” The message had to do with what’s the point of being a Christian, a “Gospel-Person” as we have been saying lately. It fleshed out the Gospel in narrative form rather than a bullet-list. The conversation ended up swirling around Galatians 2:20 and […]
We’ve got this running joke in our family right now: Amanda loves to plan ahead and is thinking about costumes for Halloween and Trunk or Treat @ Hayward Wesleyan for us and the girls (last year they were princesses and I was the prince). She came across an idea to do a family, four-person, collage […]
We were eating dinner and Amanda had place a handful of broccoli on Macie’s plate. As usual, Macie was dipping them in ranch dressing, thoroughly enjoying soaking her “trees” (as she calls them) and sucking the ranch off of them. While I was eating, Macie hands me one of her broccoli and says: “Dad, I can’t eat […]
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Sometimes it’s difficult to describe the kingdom of God and the praxis inherent within. We, as followers of Jesus, have to have faith that when we do what is right, according to kingdom values, then that “redeems” the world… that brings about God’s will on earth as it is in heaven. Admist the riots in […]
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In light of students @ Hayward Middle and High School acquiring MacBooks and iPads this school year (as part of the 1 to 1 initiative) as well as this generation’s burgeoning fascination with technology and its pervasiveness in our lives, I thought this infographic was informational: via OnlineEducation.net HT Mashable
I’m sitting in my office right now working on choosing curriculum for Followers 2011-2012. I’ve used a couple of Elevate 8-pack series in the past and really enjoyed them, but that was a couple of years ago. Since then they have exploded the series they have produced. If my count is accurate they have 27 […]
I wrote another article for WesleyanKids.org about the ministry planning season and back to school ideas. You can check it out here: How Are Your Ministry Plans Coming?
I have a lot of ideas. Sometimes more ideas than the time to accomplish them. It is really easy for me to start things… but a whole lot more difficult for me to finish things. I’m realizing this about myself. Last year, after our big remodel project in which we expanded our children and youth […]
A while back I came across a blog entitled: EpicParent.tv Great blog! There were (and still are) so many thought provoking ideas and conversations going on in this blog. It’s refreshing. My intent was to tackle some of these issues one at a time (and I still might in the future). But these links have […]
We travel through life so fast nowadays that we forget or are often unaware that every person we walk by, drive by and/or push a Walmart cart by has a story. Maybe it’s a success story or a painful story or perhaps a disjointed, cracked story. Maybe their stories are old and they bare the […]
I really enjoy talking with kids. They are always brutally honest. When they are young it is cute. However, the older they get (elementary school age) they learn more and more and there is no “learned” filter on their thoughts or take on life and family. I have to be careful the kinds of questions […]
I came across this funny list of “requirements” or recommendations for children’s ministry leaders and volunteers (you’ll understand and “feel” them when you read them!): Sense of humour is not mandatory, but you won’t survive without it Should be quick to recover when you forget a kids name: a staple of generic names such as […]
Yesterday after work, I picked up the girls at daycare and was intending (like normal) to go straight home. The girls (actually Sari) had other plans. Sari: “I want to go to God’s house!” (that’s code for “let’s go to church and play, and possibly get some candy from Dad’s office!”) I wasn’t in a […]