Find HIS Vision

One thing I've really been trying to figure out when it comes to Youth Ministry is focus. The programs that we run including those on Wednesday nights, Sunday mornings and any other special events we do need to have a purpose and a clear focus. The youth team that I have the pleasure of working with have been looking at and evaluating what the purpose is for what we are doing. The idea is to define two main things: 1. Who are we trying to reach? 2. What are we trying to accomplish? I've recently been reading "The Purpose Driven Youth Ministry" by Doug Fields and he writes that there are five things every ministry should be about: evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, worship, and ministry. In addition, there are five groups of kids that can have our focus: community, crowd, congregation, committed and core. After some reading the definitions of each and trying to identify those elements in our community and church, our team is drawing to the conclusion that our ministry isn't

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The End of the Road

Well, it's over. The Steelers' football season has come to a screeching halt. It's really not any surprise seeing as how they were coming into playoffs injured and beat up. Big Ben was playing the last few games of the season with a sprained ankle (and for what reason?) Woodley had been hurt and Clark couldn't play because of his blood condition, Mendenhall was out for the season, and Pouncey was a no-go. Bruce Arians is an awful play-caller and lacks imagination when he gets closer to the goal line. To see Keisel and Hampton go down in the game just added insult to injury as the battered Steelers lost to a Denver team that had no business winning that game. They pulled it off, and my congrats go out to them. The better team won yesterday. You won't hear whining from me about refs losing the game for us, my respect goes out to the Broncos. To put how I feel into words will be to quote any Browns fan I know..."There's always next year!" Go Steelers!!!

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God WILL supply

Philippians 4:19 "And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus." What do you think of when you read that? That is the question I am asking myself everyday. It had been a difficult ending to 2011, and it seems that 2012 will just be even more difficult. We are living paycheck to paycheck and while this is new to us, I know this isn't new to many, many people all across the city, state, nation, and world. What is the answer though? The stress is tough, the sacrifices are plenty, and sometimes it seems that there is no hope. Then again...there's that verse. What is a need? Sometimes I hear kids (or adults) saying "I need" such-and-such but often times that NEED is simply a WANT. That's something my dad taught me a long time ago that has stuck with me into adulthood - the difference between the two. There are many things that I really, REALLY want, but that verse doesn't say God will supply all my wants, but simply my needs. I must say t

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    Job – Part 2
    Job chapter 2 finds Job in a similar predicament that chapter one did. God's in heaven, Satan comes before him, God mentions how great Job is and how he "still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason." Satan is a wily devil - he likes to test people and make them turn their backs on God and so he claims to God that "a man will give all he has for his own life." In other words Satan is convinced that the only reason Job is still blameless before God is because he still had his health. God gives Satan permission to do what he wants to Job AS LONG AS his life is spared. Things have just gone from bad to worse. If you remember in Job 1, Job lost a ton of stuff - animals, servants, and family. He shaved his head and is sitting naked worshiping God. This torment isn't enough for Satan and he now comes and afflicts Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. Job takes a piece of broken pottery in order to....scrape himself as he sits among the ashes. Ouch! It seems that the pain of scraping himself somehow lessened the pain of the sores and he does this while sitting in ashes. Pretty soon, a new character comes into the picture (and we're going to meet a few more in a minute) - his wife! She looks at him and tells hims to curse God and die!! What a support! He answers by telling him that she's foolish because "should we accept good from God, and not trouble?" There he goes again: God gives and takes away, he gives us good and trouble!" Job's wife wasn't the


    Posted on January 14, 2012
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    Job – The Beginning
    The story begins in the land of Uz (not Oz, and there isn't a wizard...) where a man name Job lives. He has ten kids


    Posted on January 13, 2012
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    Find HIS Vision
    One thing I've really been trying to figure out when it comes to Youth Ministry is focus. The programs that we run including those on


    Posted on January 12, 2012
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    The End of the Road
    Well, it's over. The Steelers' football season has come to a screeching halt. It's really not any surprise seeing as how they were coming into


    Posted on January 9, 2012
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    God WILL supply
    Philippians 4:19 "And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus." What do you think of when


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We have had a little practice with this, as it's the second time we've been in this situation. I always ...