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Our Sins and the Minnesota Twins
May 20, 2011I love the Minnesota Twins. I know sometimes my Tigers hat throws people off, but that’s more about home representation than being a fan. I come from a sports-watching family (see “Sports Moments” post from ...
Goodbye to Good
May 16, 2011This morning Jill and I watched the Space Shuttle lift off with Elliot. Next month’s launch of Atlantis will mark the end of the Shuttle fleet as it retires into spaceflight history. It’s strange to ...
Burnt Out on Burnout
May 14, 2011When I was in high school, my dad overheard me telling someone that I got “yelled at”. He later corrected me, because, as he pointed out, he didn’t actually raise his voice at me. I ...
VCSTUDENT Freek Shirts
January 25, 2011Props to Jarvis Glanzer from Baxter, MN for this “band tour” shirt idea. We release a youth group shirt in conjunction with our school year beginning in September. The design is done in house in ...
VCSTUDENT Schooled 2010
January 24, 2011Schooled is a series we did for 10 weeks near the end of the school year. We used the book Essential Theology by Andrew Hedges as the outline for discussion and speaking. It offered some ...
VCSTUDENT Calendar
January 24, 2011The American youth pastor has developed a reputation over the years of being disorganized. This is due in large part to the fact that the average youth pastor is in fact disorganized. I’ve talked with ...
Primal
January 7, 2011Mark Batterson is the lead pastor at a church in Washington DC. He is best known for one of his other books, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. The heart of ...
VCSTUDENT Parent’s Guide
December 15, 2010Anytime a parent signs up their teen for sports or even a new school year, the school administration has all the dates, times, and financial expectations laid out for them to see. I wanted parents ...
VCSTUDENT Resources
December 15, 2010Less is more. How do we get more out of ministry when we’re working with less time, money, and resources. Over the years of working with less, I’ve tried to find efficient solutions applying the ...
Faith the size of a flower seed
April 26, 2010We’re in a series in youth group called “Schooled”. The whole premise of these 10 weeks is that God is real and at work in His creation. To prove the point, we had each of ...
Thank You Phil Mickelson
April 11, 2010The devil is glorified when evil commands our attention. We have endured months of Tiger Woods news… his affairs, rehab, the return to golf. Thank you, Phil Mickelson, for making the world forget his story, ...
Looking for a church Easter Sunday?
March 31, 2010Yesterday Trent and I put up a couple banners under our signs on our new land. If you are in the Twin Cities and are looking for a place to go to church Sunday, check ...
Reggie Recap
March 24, 2010(Here is an article I wrote for a Youth Alive newsletter about our Reggie Dabbs Outreach two weeks ago on March 10th) It was picture perfect. Everything I had hoped for and yet it was ...
Nicaragua
June 14, 2009Yikes! Can’t believe the time is already upon us! We leave early tomorrow for our missions trip to Nicaragua! We have been feeling like it will be more restful for us than the last month ...
Coverage
March 16, 2009The news coverage on the theft of our church audio equipment has been pretty extensive. It’s been pretty much on every local news website after being featured on Kare 11. Sometimes when things go wrong, ...
Q.C.
December 29, 2008I can’t actually remember what I got this sticker off of. All I know is it was an article of clothing. That’s not really the important part to me, it’s not what led me to ...
Warning: Very Sad News.
December 7, 2008To preface this, I hate to share such bad news with people, and I especially hate to post something so sad on our website -especially around Christmas time. But it happened, and it was big ...
Abandoned Teens
October 30, 2008This constantly updating story breaks my heart – teenagers being abandoned at hospitals in Nebraska legally because of their poorly worded safe-haven law. Another one was left this week at a hospital in Omaha... the ...
Oh my God
September 30, 2008I still replace God with gosh… I just don’t like saying “oh my God.” Most people call it “taking the Lord’s name in vain” – breaking one of the ten commandments. While I don’t like ...
A Little Wave
August 28, 2008Matt, my mom, and I all visited the Crystal Cathedral when we were in California back in May. There were many statues of people from the Bible (and of course I’m always curious as to ...
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