investment in students

Students can be some of the most frustrating individuals to work with.  They have an idea of how it should be done and never seem to take into account that you have been doing it for a while and might have learned a thing or two along the way.  Then there are those moments where [...]

Shift Conference

While I ponder over whether or not to post the bulk of my notes to this blog.  I have decided that instead of posting them and wasting all that energy on this little screen, I will send you to the video links of the sessions.  They will be much more entertaining to you.  Thanks to [...]

God use me…

During one of the worship sets at the shift conference we were asked to do this little exercise.  On each of our programs for the week was a post-it note.  The attached post-it note had a title that read, GOD USE ME…  Bo Boshers asked us to take a minute and just ask God to [...]

Shift Conference – Session 2, Mark Holman

Mark comes to us from a Family ministry philosophy in regards to methodology.  He believes, teaches and writes mostly about faith at home.  His website is http://www.faithbeginsathome.com check it out to find out more about him. He started off his conversation with the Deuteronomy 6 text that we have all used to support the need [...]

Social Justice

In light of all the organizations that are reaching out and trying to make a difference from a social justice perspective, we are reminded that we are to care for the poor.  There are so many different ways to make an impact that I could not even begin to mention them here.  A few that [...]

Over the last couple of days, I have been reading it by Craig Groeschel.  While the book seems to be another leadership book under the same principles that we have read from every other leader in the last ten years, this is still a must read book. Craig does a great job of communicating several [...]