Starting of 09' right!

Some thoughts on the Dark Night of the Soul

Ideation w/Mike Foster
Charles Lee had a conversation with mike foster on ideation over at his blog the other day. (a ling to the post on Charles’ blog) Check that link out above to get all Mike’s links and what not. It’s definitely worth checking out. I had a very similar conversation with Mike on the phone a couple weeks ago about this very subjuct pertaining to a specific idea that the good reverend Nate Wells and I are d

music monday 16.0 – .5 // a top 5
My top 5 recent records i’ve recently listened to. It’s been awhile since i have done a music monday so instead of just giving you one album you should listen to i have decided to give you 5! Enjoy! #1. Hello Hurricane :: Switchfoot (ok, technically you can’t listen to you this until November 10, but that’s right around the corner and the second you

Sermon on the Mount…
I’ve been studying the Sermon on the Mount with some regularity for quite a few months. I spoke at a camp this summer, August, and shared some of my initial thoughts on the Sermon on the Mount. Specifically I shared thoughts on the beatitudes, and what it means to be salt and light. I confessed to my congregation (the camp) that these were initial thoughts and that the Sermon on the Mount was really working me over and giving me a hard time. I continue to study it. Currently I am reading some of St. Augustine’s thought and some his old sermons on our Lord’s sermon. I’m reading some studies by John Scott and still thinking HEAVILY about the words offered to me by Da

Reflections on the Famine by AV
Aaron VanStrien is the Youth Pastor at Frankfort Church and the event coordinator for the 30 hour famine in North West Indiana :: These are his thoughts… Doing an event like this is hard. There’s a lot of work that goes into planning a retreat. This retreat is a hard sell. Why? Because you do not eat, you sleep in a box on a gym floor, and spend most of the second day serving someone you may or may not know. This does not exactly scream youth ministry in the tradition sense. Typically at a youth retreat you focus on the student. What do I mean by that? You focus on each individual students walk with Christ. This is easy. Easy in the sense that the students can grab on to i

God and his grace…
Our spiritual life is his affair; because, whatever we may think to the contrary, it is really produced by his steady attraction, and our humble and self-forgetful response to it. It consists in being drawn, at his pace and in his way, to the place where he wants us to be; not the place we fancied for ourselves. The Spiritual Life :: Evelyn Underhill (as read in A Guide to Prayer) I read this quote yesterday and it really got me pondering God’s prevenient grace. How he is drawing me to himself, how he’s drawing my son to himself. How he’s drawing all of humanity to himself. AMEN!