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Contemporary is the New Traditional

Found this great video on my friend Josh’s blog MoreThanDodgeball.com. Great stuff! Enjoy!

“Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.

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Great End-Of-The-Year Gift for Your Volunteers @ SimplyYouthMinisry.com

Pick up my book What Would You Do? @ SimplyYouthMinistry.com A great end-of-the-year gift for your youth ministry volunteers!

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Are You … Turning A Blind Eye? … Fooling Yourself?

“Communities or neighborhoods developed around particular ‘life-styles’ help assure that the people we and our children encounter on a daily basis are much like ourselves in education, race, and socioeconomic background. Many of us drive to work each day from carefully defined neighborhoods to carefully controlled work environments, and can effectively avoid encountering most strangers, particularly those that might be troublesome. For many of us, it takes intentional effort to intersect meaningfully and personally with strangers different from ourselves.

“At times we deliberately turn away from vulnerable strangers, choosing not to see them, quietly steeling ourselves to resist their intrusions into out lives. . . .
“. . . News reports and documentaries broadcast the most terrible details of the lives of refugees or famine victims thousands of miles away . . . We are saddened, sometimes overwhelmed, and wonder at such desperation. However, these people and the reports about them rarely make any claim on our personal response and we quickly move on to the next report or family task. . . .
“A steady exposure to distant human need that is beyond our personal response can gradually inoculate us against particular action. It can also delude us into thinking that by simply knowing about it we are somehow sharing in the suffering of others.”
(Pohl, Christine D. Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition, pp. 90-91)
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The Complete N.T. Resource OVER 4,000 SOLD!

Just received word that The Complete New Testament Resource for Youth Workers which I had the privilege of working on has sold over 4,000 copies and is heading to another printing! Today it was featured in the YM Bookstore and they also offered 2 Free Lessons for download from I & II Timothy. Volume 2 is expected out later this year or in the beginning of 2011. Be sure to get a copy for that special youth worker in your life (if you’re a youth worker, that would be you and your team!)