Advent Conspiracy Week 1: Worship Fully

Something more important...

To Write Love On Her Arms

Advent Conspiracy Week 1: Worship Fully
Note: This is the first in a 4-week series inspired by the Advent Conspiracy movement. Much of the following is inspired by the new book entitled Advent Conspiracy, by AC founders Rick McKinley, Chris Seay and Greg Holder. Because they say much of what needs to be said so eloquently, some of the words below are theirs, not mine. This series will follow the presentations our youth group wi

Something more important…
Sometimes it’s important to recognize when someone has something more important to say than what you want to say. I was going to post a new blog today, but after reading this over on the Burnside Writer’s Collective, I felt like what Carole Turner had to say was way more im

To Write Love On Her Arms
Today is To Write Love On Her Arms Day. If you’re not familiar with TWLOHA, you’re missing what is in my opinion one of the most meaningful movements of the church in teen/young adult culture in a generation. The

Show me da money
It’s a trip. It makes the world go ’round. It’s what I want. Cash. Bread. Dough. Moola. Dinero. Pastor Steve’s recent sermon series on Generosity has got me thinking a lot lately about money. Not in the “love of it is the root of all evil” sort of way, or in the “give it all away before you burnR

Time to rethink Christmas!
My home church, FUMC Williamstown, will be participating in Advent Conspiracy for the third year in 2009. Helping people reconnect with the true meaning of Christmas by learning to give more relationally and to help the most marginalized people in the world with the basic necessity for survival–clean water. These are a few of my favorite things…