Category: Teaching
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Ps 78 and Our Legacy
(This was one of my messages at GrandCamp in June 2023) In May of 1996 I moved with my wife and 3 small children to England where we spent the next 5+ years as I served as youth minister in a C of E parish. Part of the calling to England was the realization that…
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How Culture Impacts Family (part 2)
(I had the opportunity to teach at St. Michael’s Church, Charleston a few months ago. This is the rest of what I shared there) 2. A postmodern and post Christian culture has emerged. In the late 1990’s, anyone doing ministry was hearing the experts warn of this idea of postmodernism. It was described as…
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How Culture Impacts Family (part 1)
(I had the opportunity to teach at St. Michael’s Church, Charleston a few months ago. This is part of what I shared there) My calling in life has been primarily to ministry with teenagers. For years I considered myself a student of youth culture, learning to make sense of the latest trends and communicating…
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Leaving a Legacy
In May of 1996 I moved with my wife and 3 small children to England where we spent the next 5+ years as I served as youth minister in a C of E parish. Part of the calling to England was the realization that very few young people in England were exposed to the gospel…
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Antioch: The Unexpected Surprise – Preaching Acts 11
Sermon on Acts 11:19-30 preached at Good Samaritan Anglican Church in May 2021 I chose this passage to look at this morning because it’s such an incredible story. Here’s a little background. The book of Acts is all about the very early spread of Christianity. It was written by Luke, who as we know from…
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Praying for Boldness: preaching Acts 4
I recently had the privilege of preaching at a church where a friend of mine is the senior pastor. I chose to preach from Act 4:23-31 and encouraged the congregation to pray with boldness and to make a greater priority of prayer in the congregation. If you care to listen to the sermon, you can…
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Is Genesis History? (and does it matter in youth ministry?)
Recently my wife and I joined one of our youth pastors and his wife at the movies to see a one night only showing of the film “Is Genesis History?” We really enjoyed the movie and discussed it for a while afterwards. The film is informative, fascinating, and very positive in it’s approach. We were…
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Staff Unity
I shared this last month at St. Christopher Camp & Conference Center with the staff. I spent a summer during college working at a Christian camp. One day the entire staff had a meeting with a local pastor who was brought in to speak to us. We did not know him, and…
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Five Helpful Articles on a Darker Subject
Depression is not a topic many of us want to think about but it’s a real issue among some of the people we work with. Many of us don’t understand the complexities of this condition that affects so many these days. Here are some excellent resources to learn more. The Rebelution website of the Harris…
