“EXAMEN.me is a simple-to-use web site that fosters your personal interaction with God. This modern approach to ancient devotional practices guides you to examen your life as you meditate on scripture, pray, and journal all of your reflections.”
After first hearing about this from a friend I signed up and started using the service to see [...]
More often than not a certain degree of clarity is often missing between people that create media for the church and people that lead and pastor the church. I have run into this predicament on more than one occasion and have found that one of the reasons this happens is that both parties unintentionally fail to be painfully clear before the production of a media project. I recently heard Bill Hybels speak on this issue of clarity in which he mentioned the line “just to be clear” when talking with others on exactly what is going to be done. I’m slowly in the process of using this line “just to be clear” after discussing a project. After discussing a project I am about to create I will say “just to be clear” I am going to do this and create that and it will help you accomplish your specific goal by doing this.
Social Networks have been around in popularity since rougly 2002. First myspace was the craze then facebook and now twitter. There are definately pros and cons to using social networks and services like twitter, however the question we must ask ourselves is which one to use as a youth group hub. I honestly think that youth groups should use all three.
Recently I had the chance to sit in on a breakout session with Lilly Lewin at the Shift conference. Lewin co-authored a book with Dan Kimball called Creating Sacred Space A Hands-On Guide to Creating Multisensory Worship Experiences for Youth Ministry. Lewin shared with us one of the problems we face in today’s societies especially amoung teeanagers is the difficulty to be still and quiet before God
When it comes to the spiritual development of teenagers often times we think about certain doctrines and spiritual disciplines. We ask ourself what do they need to know? Like schools, churches often have a curriculum set in place for students to learn that is often broken down into oral teaching subjects. The problem with some of this is that a large part of this curriculum if not most of it is often designed for oral learners.
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