[Kid Inspiration]

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From Savage Chickens

Your Best Life Now – by Joel Osteen
Warner Faith 2004

7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Joel Osteen pastors Lakewood Church which was started Mothers Day 1959 by his father John. On October 3, 1999, after the death of his father, Joel became the senior pastor of Lakewood.

This book is right up there with the Purpose Driven Life, and as one of those books that gets read, it seems, by pretty much the entire english speaking Christian world and beyond.

The seven 25 mg benadryl steps probably won’t surprise you, they are well worn lessons that we can overlook in making things too complicated.

Here are the seven steps:

1. Enlarge your vision (what you focus on is what you get)

2. Develop a healthy self image (believe you can do it!)

3. Discover the power of your thoughts and words (your thoughts and words can pave the way to real changes around you)

4. Let go of the past (focus on what you want)

5. Find strength through adversity (trust God to get you there in His own good time)

6. Give! (giving opens up the doors of receiving)

7. Choose to be happy (enthusiasm for opportunity helps create fine results)
Like the Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren, this book presents things very simply and this is part of the reason for its success and effectiveness.

Application for Children’s Ministry:
Keep it Simple.

Don’t use too much ‘Christian-ese’.

Our kids (and adults) need to hear the truth, and they need it simply. I have heard too many people use words that would work on well on an adult who grew in church in the 60′s but are irrelevant to a child’s world today.

The literacy ability of people reading this blog would surprise you, and me for that matter. Rule of thumb: If your 10 year old can’t understand it, write it simpler (is that good grammer?)

Check out this statistic (from Audiblox.com):

In the U.S.A. the $14 million National Adult Literacy Survey of 1993 found that even though most adults in this survey had finished high school, 96% of them could not read, write, and figure well enough to go to college. Even more to the point, 25% were plainly unable to read.

Now this may be a reasonably strange lesson to learn from ‘Your Best Life Now’, but then I am a reasonably strange kinda guy (just ask my wife).

We move fast in ministry. Success is celebrated briefly, failure is quickly forgotten. We started our 7th service tonight. It was new and exciting, but within two weeks, it will be as if we have been doing it forever!

Dave Ferguson (Community Christian Church Chicago) writes (a few weeks ago) on “four rules for fast teams“, adapted from Fast Company (one of my favroutie business blogs).

1. LET THE GROUP MAKE IT’S OWN RULES.
2. SPEAK UP EARLY AND OFTEN.
3. 25 mg amitriptyline LEARN AS YOU GO.
4. FAST HAS TO BE FUN.  

Read on at daveferguson.org

Ouch!

http://theresurgence.com/mdblog_2006-05-24_death_by_ministry 

Oh Man. You need to read this! And then spend a week in prayer 25 mg altace and fasting, then read it again. Then if possible after reading it again, make sure you understand that a life of ministry is a spiritual battle.

eg. (USA) Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in their churches.

In Australia alone, there are over 10,000 ex-pastors.

The T-Qualizer is a t-shirt with a built in sound sensitive graphic equalizer panel. As the music beats, the shirts equalizer lights up to the beat of the music.

This would be awesome to wear in a big kids meeting to measure the volume of cheering 25 altace mg etc.

It has a fully functional EL (Electro Luminenscence) panel with a battery pack that snuggles discretely into a pocket inside the shirt. From Gadget Box (in England), with a great deal on worldwide shopping.

Via The Church Report

This survey was sent to 2,000 church leaders with the goal of ranking the nation’s fastest growing churches and churches with more than 2,000 weekend attendance. The 127 churches 2000 mg msm nominated for the 50 Most Influential Churches survey were located in 32 states and represented 27 affiliation groups and/or denominations.

It would be fascinating to read about the 50 most influential Children’s Ministries in the world, and if they correlate to the 50 most influential churches…

On that note, what are your top five influences in your ministry to kids?

Leave a comment, I will need to think on it a bit.

Via SearchEngineWatch.

Finally, Australia gets mapped by Google Maps. Not only did Australia get street level views, so did New Zealand.

If you have never played around with Google maps, have a look. You might even be able to see your car in your own driveway. 200 mg ultram

Rick Muchow is the worship pastor at Saddleback church – Check out this 200 mg prometrium article on Pastors.com where Rick answers a question about kids praise and worship
Key Paragraph:

The worth of our children is so significant and powerful! They are the next generation of our church, but often we are so busy leading the adults who are asking to be led and funding the church, that we end up with our leftover energy going to the children. We as churches often train our younger ministers by putting them with the children. I wonder how our churches would grow if we asked our best leaders to focus on teaching the children first. It could radically change the church of the future!

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Article about parents who want their kids to ‘get religion’.

A Leap of Faith

…many nonreligious parents — whether they’ve 20 mg zocor eschewed belief or practice or both — find themselves seeking the psychological, spiritual and moral blessings they hope a religious background can bestow on their offspring.

Seeking truth at the movies

In 1988, Christians protested The Last Temptation of Christ; Campus Crusade for Christ even tried to buy the film prints in order to destroy them. But now those same 20 mg zetia groups are viewing “The Da Vinci Code” as an opportunity to share Christianity.

Link via the World Mag Blog

Churches Losing Choir Boys to Football and Computers

Britain’s cathedrals are facing the difficult challenge of filling the empty seats in their choirs as young boys turn away from traditional church worship to football and computer games.

Hint: I don’t think it’s football’s 20 mg prednisone fault.

Okay, there are some very cool new sites popping up online, that allow you to do some REALLY cool stuff (What is Web 2.0?)

Just checked out rallypointhq.com which allows a team to work on documents and collaborate for free.
Desktop Word Processor + Wiki = Rallypoint
Rallypoint combines the powerful features of your favorite desktop word processor with the collaborative abilities of a secure hosted wiki, giving you the best of both worlds. Rallypoint is a powerful online collaboration service to create, organize and share information. There’s no software to install or maintain with Rallypoint, all you need is a standard web browser.

So my team can create and edit all the documents for an upcoming kids conference online from anywhere in the world! Runsheets, Information, training etc. Anything you like.

It seems like the web is really 20 mg nolvadex starting to come through on its promises to simplfy my life.