Hiatus

Knowing full-well that I am not the most frequent updater of my blog (which I really do enjoy writing), I’m letting you know that I will be taking a break ON PURPOSE for the next month or so. I’m hoping to just breathe some fresh air into my life and frankly, on the list of [...]

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PEOPLE YOU WANT TO AVOID AT CONCERTS
I’ve been to a lot of concerts. Dave Matthews Band (Leroi R.I.P.), Coldplay, U2, The Eagles, MuteMath, EBE Crew. But no matter where you go, who you go with, or who you go to see, there are always those people that you see and you know that if you’re [...]

CE Leadership Summit

This past Monday and Tuesday, a group of 25 or so youth pastors got together at CE National’s headquarters in Winona Lake, Indiana for a leadership summit. I’m not sure what a “leadership summit” means except for it was a bunch of leaders getting together and talking about what’s working and what’s not in our [...]

25 Albums

**I put this on Facebook awhile ago, but here it is in case you missed it.
Think of 25 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums [...]

670

This is the total number of blog posts that have been written by the people/blogs that I have in my Google Reader feeder (rhyme much?). The most was by Josh Griffin (High School Guy @ Saddleback) who had 70 posts. The least was by Taffy (Student Ministries Worship Guy @ Saddleback) who had only 1 [...]

Before You Buy

Here in the Student Ministries department, we’ve been on the lookout for a new video camera. We’ve been really close to punching in the credit card numbers before we realized that the website was, well, a little “less than reputable.” So to help you avoid some of the problems that we’ve thankfully been spared (it [...]

Most Dowloaded songs of 2008 – A Commentary

Yahoo and itunes have released the Top 15 Most Dowloaded Songs of 2008. Here are my thoughts on each of them.
15. “Love in this Club” – Usher – Gone are the days of sweet melodies like, “U Make Me Wanna” or sweet beats like “Yeah.” Now we have leftover synthesizers from 1984 (or from Napoleon [...]

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes

Recently, someone threw the challenge my way of watching the video below and seeing how many movies I can name that are in it. There are supposed to be 40, and since I consider myself kind of a movie guy, I thought I’d give it a whirl.
I’ll see how many I can guess, and you [...]

$25 itunes Gift Card

I just got a $25 itunes gift card for my birthday. What songs should I snag?

Laugh.

I don’t laugh enough. Don’t get me wrong, I do. But I’m talking about eyes watering, stomach hurting, “please stop, I’m going to throw up” kind of laughter. Done that recently?
I heard a great story last night about one of my friends getting in trouble for something done on the baseball field and I lost [...]