Does your church nursery have internet? Perhaps you think that is a strange question but not so according to some of the latest surveys and reports. Recently released reports by educational non-profit organizations, Joan Ganz Cooney Center and Sesame Workshop, say that about 80% of children between the ages of 0 and 5 who use the Internet in the United…
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“Hi, my name is Mike and I am a Starbucks-aholic.” Yes, I confess, I love Starbucks coffee. I frequent their stores while traveling and when I am home, I grind their coffee fresh every morning. But this post is more than just a commercial or a personal admission of my love for coffee…all coffee. March 30, 2011 Starbucks celebrates its…
The leadership conference in Sydney, Australia, was truly an international student leadership event with leaders representing over 10 nationalities. Their churches are reaching students from numerous ethnic backgrounds with one church alone ministering to 45 people groups of students. I was challenged to see that their student ministries were multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual, but they were drawn together by a…
One afternoon while Betsi and I were in New Zealand we climbed Mt. Manganui located on the coast of the North Island. As she snapped photos of the scenery, I stood looking across the Pacific Ocean deep in thought. My thoughts took me back to my childhood to a specific incident that was totally unrelated but inextricably connected. I could…
As parents each of us faces the challenge of providing spiritual guidance for our children: encouraging the formation of their lives into the image of Christ. We walk the thin line of assisting in the breaking of their will without crushing their spirit. We all enter parenthood with expectations, plans and strategies -- and some of them actually work. Dr.…
Imagine a world where… …everybody wins …nobody loses …there are no deadlines …you don’t fail…you just don’t finish Perhaps you have seen the commercial of the little league ball players sitting in the dugout reminding each other of the reward awaiting them when they lose the game. There are a plethora of articles referring to Millennials…
I guess you thought that once the election was over, you would not hear that line again for a while. I am as weary of hearing it as you are, but let me use it just one more time. We have all heard much about each political candidate’s qualifications, passion, compassion and vision during this election season, so let me…
It has been referred to as Choking Game, Scarf Game, Pass-out Game, Space Monkey, Suffocation Roulette, Fainting Game, Flat Liner and The American Dream. But regardless of the tag, it is dangerous and sometimes deadly. It is not a new game but statistics show that it has had resurgence in popularity in the last few years. Statistics are difficult to…
Guest post by Betsi Phillips Calhoun Why is Self-Injurious Behavior (SIB) so prominent among students today? Why would they resort to cutting (using a sharp instrument to inflict pain and induce bleeding), imbedding (cutting themselves, placing objects in the incision and gluing or sewing them in) or burning (inflicting pain to the skin tissue with something hot or flaming)? We…