Archive for December, 2008

Tips for an effective church website

Today as I was reading through an email sent to me from Philip Bassham, the founder of www.baptistwebsites.org. Philip is a close friend of mine and also the minister of music where I serve. Philip, in my opinion, has a phenomenal perspective on the way he builds websites and leads our music program. As our [...]

xmas

“Xmas”.. understood and still dislike it

I read after dozens of church leaders. Some our church planters, some pastors, and a whole slew of them are youth pastors. I just wanted to take a moment and rant about my personal dislike for the use of “Xmas” for Christmas. It seems ridiculous to me how many youth pastors feel the need to [...]

Youth Group Discipline / Blessings of Confession

  “Youth Group Discipline” what? I know you think I am crazy. No we do not have double jeopardy at our church for teenagers who do wrong. Our church does exercise church discipline. However, last night we had a teenager come in for a 3 minute confession to our teenagers. Last night we had a [...]

passionality

passionality

Since “passionality” is not a real word I thought it would be okay to define it how it will best serve me. A few people have given a definition to this word but it is inconsistent. So I will take liberty to define this word. passionality: the personality of the expression of your passion I fear [...]