The Bigger Story

Finding Your Place in the Bigger Story  A lesson for youth on freedom and significance Tonight (10/14/2009) I’m leading our youth group,and want to start talking about “The Bigger Story.” This is actually much more than just what could be...

Visioneering, by Andy Stanley

I’m reading a book by Andy Stanley called Visioneering. Excellent book about not just leadership, but finding out who God made you to be, and what He made you to do, and how to get from “here” to “there.” Right now I’m reading all...

Topics for Youth

Some topics I’d like to cover in youth group… Freedom Fear Promises / Language / Words “Matter” “The Bigger Picture” / Finding your place in the story Some Resources Games Movie / Video clips Music Stories More thoughts and comments...

A weekend full of rocks – Part 2

This continues a series of events known as a weekend in my life… Part one is here. So after a long Saturday, we hit the sack for a good 6 hours of sleep before waking up and hitting a Sunday running. We’ve lined up some teenage friends to come home with us...

A weekend full of rocks – Part 1

This past weekend was full of events, stories, fun, and lessons. I need to get some of them down. Saturday morning started with a family shopping trip to Menards for material for a new chicken tractor. If you don’t know what those are, you haven’t been to...