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Spongebob Actors Dub Classic Movies

May 15, 2012 Delight

This is so completely pointless and fun that it had to be shared. Youth ministry lesson: Sometimes pointless and fun is exactly the point. Question: Are Spongebob’s pants really square?

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Good News Curriculum in the Wild

May 10, 2012 The Cartel Life

It’s been about a month since Jon Huckins and I published Good News in the Neighborhood: A 6-Week Curriculum for Groups. Jon and I worked for months and months, pouring our hearts and hours of our lives into those lessons. And it’s been exhilarating to hear feedback as groups begin to using it. Here’s some [...]

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If in doubt, give credit

May 9, 2012 Discuss
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I read about this case on AdAge this morning. Basically, the branding company that helped JC Penny create the “Fair & Square” messaging is crying foul because JC Penny decided to do something that wasn’t fair & square. Namely, not fulfilling their contract in allowing the ad agency to make money by building and installing [...]

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Anonymous Extraordinaries

May 3, 2012 Inspire
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Such good stuff!

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Registration for The Summit now open

May 2, 2012 Events
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 Ladies and Gentlemen, We are pleased to let you know that registration for the inaugural, first-of-its-kind in youth ministry, and utterly never-happened-before event called The Summit has officially opened registration. That’s right, we’re redundant in our explanation. Why? Because this line-up is so mind-blowing, we’re lacking in words that aren’t redundant redundant. Have you seen [...]

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Tic Long and Mark Dowds added to MSMC12 line-up

April 25, 2012 The Cartel Life
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this is big news. we’ve added two speakers to the line-up for the 2012 middle school ministry campference. but they’re more than just two interesting speakers. both of these guys will add so much to the entire experience of the weekend, well more than the 40 minutes of their main session talks (which will also [...]

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Introducing Open

April 22, 2012 Events
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This week we announced a brand new initiative, Open. Open is an experimental open-source-styled event with an emphasis on celebrating local and regional youth ministry. Open is giving a place to things we all know: Context is super important. Sometimes I see youth ministry training events and I think… “Wow, those folks do great in [...]

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A Quick Blue Like Jazz review

April 13, 2012 Resources
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I’m no avid moviegoer. In fact, with small kids at home and no regular babysitter it’s a rarity that we head to a theater to watch a movie. A date night in my house typically consists of renting a movie on iTunes. So, for me, going to the theater this afternoon to see Blue Like [...]

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Good News in Your State

April 10, 2012 The Cartel Life

Yesterday we released a curriculum I co-authored with Jon Huckins called, Good News in the Neighborhood. One of my fascinations has been seeing where people are buying this from. So far 26 states, Canada, Australia, New Zeeland, and Singapore are on the board. It would be really cool to see groups from all 50 states [...]

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Tea Party in Slow Motion

April 9, 2012 Play

I’m a fan of slow motion video. There’s something about 5000 frames per second that makes everything more interesting. And after March Madness I’m kind of used to 30 seconds taking 4 minutes. Don’t try this at home. Unless you have a $50,000 Phantom camera. Then try it at home and upload it to YouTube [...]

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