Yeah Harmony, we didn’t want to see the ‘gentle animals’!

I just found out that VBS stands for Vacation Bible School. I am currenty throwing up my lunch. #kidmin
funnymandan

Unfortunately I had to be the one to break it to my esteemed colleague Funny Man Dan… he had no idea.

I think if I sat down with a group of people committed to thinking up the worst possible name for an event during summer holidays… well… I know for a fact it would include the word school!

Sorry Dan.

I know I’m light on the whole ‘meaningful content‘ about ministry and life and leadership ‘thing’.

But this did tickle my linguistic funny bone – because saying ‘I could care less…’ has bugged me for a while now

See you soon with some real content – hopefully!

After the phenomenal awesomeness of Anybody can be cool… I present a series of truly great book titles by Lorraine Peterson.

Starting with ‘Why isn’t God giving Cash Prizes?’

I’m not sure, but at least we all get an upright piano to sit on and the ability to look at the same spot on our jeans as our friends.

This is all great and stuff but ‘If You Really Trust Me, Why Can’t I Stay Out Later?’

Well with haircuts like that you might be mistaken for members of Wham, or backup singers for Bobbie Brown. That is a sweet V neck sweater though!

Onwards and hopefully upwards as hear from people who have been ‘Dying of Embarrassment & (Are) Living to Tell About it’

I’m pretty sure that blue shirt Mullet guy has a lot to be embarrassed about, but NOT that smouldering and cheeky grin. If he doesn’t find work as an extra on Saved By The Bell reunion shows, them I’m the guy in the rip off ADIDAS shirt.

I’m still feeling lucid and bright eyed, so we push onto more theological fare.

If the Devil “Made” You Do It, You Blew It! (But It Doesn’t Need To Happen Again).

Now as you can imagine I have major issues with this book… I don’t see that there is anything wrong with touch! Especially if that is restricted to either the hand or the forearm! I can understand anything higher than that is right in the ‘Devil’s Territory’ but for goodness sake, this multi-cultural slushy gang obviously spends hours watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air together, why wouldn’t you bond over that!

So, there I have it.

I know the burning question you are asking, where can I buy these magnificent tomes and frame them on wall above my autographed ‘Friends‘ Poster?

Probably your parents bookshelf… seriously… check there first!

Continuing the fine tradition of the Muppets youtube series here is a real American song with a patriot – Sam The Eagle!

But Awesome Takes Practice.

A little speechless about how truly awesome this book title is!

Ha!

Love it.

We should be focussed on creating a Church that our Children will want to be a part of and lead.

We need to be creating a ministry where our ceiling will be their floor.

We want them to stand on our shoulders

The next senior/lead pastors of our Churches are most likely in your parenting rooms, or our early childhood ministries.

Which in my mind is the only reason to include chocolate in your weekend services.

A brave Australian dad takes on a Huntsman spider!

Very funny.

Love the Arnold!

But the Morgan Freeman is just priceless!!

Here’s what I wrote on twitter on 12:39 PM Sep 17th from Twitterrific

@funnymandan I challenge U to a #twitteroff. Category is ‘bad ministry name acronyms’: Super Passionate Eternal Warriors – SPEW #kidmin

What started as mere horseplay between friends turned into a cultural tour de force with hundreds, dozens, lots of, numbers of fellow twitters joining in to clash their language knowledge in a battle of wit and writing…ness.

Over the next two days many a bad Acronym was created, some merely awful, others… puerile nonsense.

Finishing at Australian Eastern Standard Time on the 19th of September in the year of our Lord two thousand and nine it is now my distinct and quite specialous honour to present to you the best of the bunch, the cream of the proverbial crop for your voting edification.

The winner will go on to recieve the glory that comes from such a win and a small basket of fruit which they will procure from their nearest Grocery establishment at their own expense.

May the Best Acronym Win! (MTBAW)

Totally copied this from Kidology

But this is just an example of the gold in the site which has been redesigned and added a heap of new features and exciting content! Check it out!

The mind of a 6-year old is wonderful. First grade… True story: One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of the Three Little Pigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where the First pig was trying to accumulate the building materials for his home. She read, ”…And so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow full of straw and said, ‘Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?’” The teacher paused then asked the class, “And what do you think that man said?” One little boy raised his hand and said, “I think he said… ‘Holy Crap, a talking pig!’” The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.

From the Humour section.

Now that we have three main campuses we don’t get to see each others room setups. So last kids staff meeting we had a fun competition. But I will let Kathryn MacDaddy tell you the rest of the story:

We had a competition between our Hillsong Kids staff called “Pimp my Set up”… The idea was that we each take 5 photos of our age groups room set up and we present them to the team. We then choose 3 finalists and vote on the winner. And I WON!! Yeah Baby..I WON IT!!! My prize was a gift card for the movies, which I will enjoy every second of!!! Read On

Great comic from Wondermark today…

It does contain an element of truth in it.

Every generation tries to impose it’s own values on the next (negatively or positively).

I recommend the following cartoon only for those extremely well versed in the internets, but I have wondered for many years if anyone else experienced the below question…

Ha!

(for more… xkcd.com)

The 2008 World Submarine Racing Championships