Archive - April, 2008

…and we’re back!

Wow! What a crazy few days. I’ve been suffering from a nasty head cold while struggling to get this blog up and running again. It was the website equivalent of pounding it with a defibrillator, willing it to stay alive. I’m pleased to say that the operation was successful and it looks like the patient [...]

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Temporary Issues

OK, so the blog is broken. All that spam has caused my hosting company to suspend the account, meaning I can’t access it via ftp. In the meantime, I’ve moved hosts and set-up the blog again. I’m just waiting to import the past 4 years of posts to get it all back to normal! Currently, [...]

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Dear God

Dear God is a website where people send in their ‘prayers’ to be posted on the site. Similar to the creative confessional Postsecret, the site allows people to express their emotions and sentiments to whatever higher power they believe in. It doesn’t matter what your version of God is… Jesus, Allah, Buddha or simply a [...]

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Values Session 11: Share (Part 2)

Image Credit: otherthings on Flickr This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of it’s values: We exist to learn to follow Jesus, to show honour to God, to use our gifts to serve, to support each other, and to share our faith. Session Aim: [...]

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Email Issues

Just a quick post to apologise to those who’ve tried to email me over the past week. Apparently my mail account was deleted on my domain and everything was getting bounced back to senders. I’ve no idea what fantastic messages I missed, so feel free to resend anything interesting. Things are back to normal now.

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Plugrug.com

Tim Schmoyer over at Life In Student Ministry has developed a new website for promoting, sharing and rating youth ministry related articles called PlugRug.com. If you’re familiar with Digg.com then you already know the deal. Stories get submitted by the community of members and are then ‘plugged’ or ‘buried’ depending on their popularity. Once a [...]

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Values Session 10: Share (Part 1)

Image Credit: otherthings on Flickr This is part of an 11-session series for 11-14 year olds, teaching our mission statement and the importance of it’s values: We exist to learn to follow Jesus, to show honour to God, to use our gifts to serve, to support each other, and to share our faith. Session Aim: [...]

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I want a cab, innit!

I’m loving this story about a London teenager who tried to call directory enquiries to book a cab to Bristol and accidentally ordered some furniture! She tried to book a taxi but used the cockney rhyming slang “Joe Baxi” to the confused operator who told her they were unable to find anyone by that name. [...]

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Acts Teaching Series

This post is a bit of ‘heads up’ as I’m currently writing small group teaching notes on the first twelve chapters of Acts (my favourite book in the Bible). Once finished, I’ll start posting them up here for you to use and adapt as necessary. The reason for only working on the first twelve chapters [...]

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Victim Treats Mugger Right

This is a great story about a social worker who while being mugged by a desperate teenager, offered the guy his coat too! He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife. “He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you [...]

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