Author Archives: Passionburnswithin
Pass It On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXBBvk4799g
Examining the relationship of Elijah and Elisha
HELP!! I WANT MY KIDS IN CHURCH!!
I get asked this a lot and was telling someone just today what my standard answer to that question would be. So I thought it would make a good blog post. So here it is How does a parent get their child involved in church? First and foremost the parent has to model the behavior [...]
The Southern Baptist Convention and Me
I am a generational Southern Baptist. My grandfather was a Southern Baptist preacher in a rural community my father was a chaplain for NAMB. My mom served in several SBC churches as I was growing up and still does now. I even was awarded a scholarship to a state camp when i wrote an essay [...]
There is a Hunger
I have been in my church for going on four years now and since the day I got here one of my goals has been how to grow attendance and involvement. Now there have been programs and gimmicks and silly ideas and serious ideas. And we have had some great successes and some failures. Wednesday night Youth [...]
Not Ashamed
WARNING!! : This post is directed towards the students involved at Reedy Fork Baptist Church and any other teenagers that might be reading So it is finally here, at least it will be here tomorrow. The beginning of the next school year. As summers go this one was pretty good. Our youth ministry had some great things [...]
What was I saying?
What was I saying? Where was I? Ummm. Those are common phrases for me in the course of a day. No matter how important my activity I always got lost or off track. I would always joke “It is my ADHD” but even though I said I was ADHD I never did anything about it. [...]
Born This Way
This phrase “born this way” has been used as a justification for many things through the years. Mostly those people who have a part of themselves that they cannot control and that normal society would deem deviant love to unfurl the flag of their helplessness with the reasoning that they were just born the way [...]
Traders
Love, Hate and Disagreement
One thing I love, and wish people could do more of, is openly disagree in a civil fashion. Whenever I get into a discussion or debate with someone on a blog or in person I never enter in with the belief that something I will say is going to magically sway them from their side [...]
Stirring Up Trouble
We use KNOWN curriculum from Lifeway resources for our Sunday and Wednesday youth group. I always adapt the concept and points of the Midweek lesson to make my own lesson and yet stay on point. I did that this week and it went real well so I thought I would post my outline. Essentially I [...]
