Category: Theology
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Should Your Church Continue to Use the Orange Curriculum?
Over the years I’ve known of many churches who have used the Orange curriculum. Friends of mine have attended the Orange Conference that promotes the curriculum and equips people to use it. Right now, I hope that most are questioning the wisdom of continuing with Orange and are doing their research to make the best…
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Theology Matters – The Gender of God
I plan to do occasional posts under the title “Theology Matters” and share with youth leaders, parents, and grandparents issues that need to be clarified as we raise up a generation with a Biblical Worldview. Recently I have been hearing more frequent references to God as a “she”. It’s not a new or novel concept…
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What We Sing With Students Matters
I noticed an unusual article from a few years ago trending on The Gospel Coalition Blog. It’s an interesting topic… 10 Hymns Youth Groups Should Sing. I think I shared the article here back when it first caught my attention. Some of the 10 Hymns I am not even familiar with but the point of…
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Key Components of Anglicanism
Crossway is about to release a new book by the late J.I. Packer titled “The Heritage of Anglican Theology” which looks like a great resource to help people better understand Anglicanism. They also just published an excerpt from the book on their website. It is an article that can be found here. It is excellent!…
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Helpful Messages on Racial Reconciliation
With so much unrest on this subject, I found these two messages to be valuable for understanding both scripture and a perspective that the media is generally not showing us.
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Defining Anglicanism
I wrote in my previous post that defining Anglican youth ministry is difficult because there are so many perspectives on what Anglicanism is. Then I recalled I had posted something a few years back that was written by J.I. Packer on Anglicanism. Admittedly his is the evangelical and protestant perspective. Yet it’s the understanding of…
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What is Anglican Youth Ministry?
Several years ago I wrote an article that turned out to be the single most read post on this blog (called FusionMusing at the time). The subject was Anglican Distinctive’s in Youth Ministry. It is currently the third listed result of a google search of “anglican youth ministry” with the first two being youth ministry…
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Is This Election?
About a month before my younger brother passed away in the hospital of cardiac failure, he sent me the following message. “Someday I’ll know why God gave me a bum ticker (heart). I believe that in some weird way that I can’t see or have considered, it will be good.” My reply was that God is…
