November 2010
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Teaching is the Greatest Way of Learning
It’s funny when the person you’re thinking about calls you. As their image is in clear view of your mind’s eye, the phone rings. It’s funny when you and your coworker are working on the same thing, without mentioning it to one another previously… erm… as long as your two project pieces complement each other instead of competing. It’s funny when you hear a...
WatchCorporate Pedophilia, AKA, the Increasing Sexualization of Youth.
A great line: “[Mom] I can be her friend when she’s thirty, we can be great friends. But for right now I’m Mom and we’re going to disagree”.
APA Study detailing the dangerous effects of premature and over-sexualization, including negative body image and major...
Learning Styles
Superman could fly and had amazing strength, Spiderman did that web thing, and the Flash had restless leg syndrome. What do children’s pastors have the powers of? Object lessons. The true mark of a kidmin warrior is the ability to turn any odd object into a lesson about Jesus’ love. On a related note, anyone who has worked in children’s ministry sometime in the last decade has...
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Kid Culture
Kid Culture is almost as much of a buzz word as “game changer”. Almost. But seriously… what does it even mean? Why are we constantly on a quest to find what kids are into? This is why: the effectiveness of ministry to the coming generation will be dependent on our ability to know and effectively integrate pop culture. Yes, pop culture. Why? Because that is kid culture.
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“Preteens like cash.”
– Me, discovering this while using dollars bills for an object lesson. Money sticks. 