After being in seminary for almost a full semester, I have a list of a few things that I am experiencing in ministry that I wish were taught in seminary: How to help out a kid whose dad just killed himself How to preach on finances How to help someone who has a porn addiction [...]
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Things I wish they taught in seminary
Posted: 18th April 2010 by Bo in Jesus Stuff, Leadership, MinistryTags: school, seminary
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The Cross of Christ
Posted: 16th April 2010 by Bo in Jesus Stuff, Leadership, MinistryTags: communion thought, preaching, sermon
Here’s my communion thought I gave several weeks ago: How many of you have a cross necklace? Let me give you a little history on how the cross was invented. In Roman days, they would have competitions to see who could invent the greatest torture device. Guess which one won? This was a device created [...]
Today, we have access to whatever information that we want. We can get our physical or electronic hands on books, articles, how-to’s, internet resources, blogs, and I could go on forever. The same is true for the church. Well, for those churches not stuck in the 50′s. Take me for instance, I have read ton’s [...]
Do you know Him?
Posted: 2nd March 2010 by Bo in Jesus Stuff, Leadership, MinistryTags: communion thought, preaching, sermon
I got to speak at all three youth services (communion thought, I didn’t preach the actual message) this past weekend. Here’s what I spoke on. I will try to put up some audio of it in a few days. Do you know Him? Some of us in this room may not even know Jesus at [...]
So I just returned from the High School CORE leadership retreat. I was a leader on the trip and I had a great time. I am wiped out, but it was well worth it. I am praying for these kids because they are pretty special. Heck, I learned a ton about leadership while I was [...]
This past Wednesday was the last Sunday that youth will meet on Wednesdays for 2009. I began volunteering this September and am committed to being a youth leader until May of 2010. I have to say that I have had a great experience so far. I have been leading a small group of 10-15 high [...]
Vacation, youth, and some other thoughts
Posted: 10th September 2009 by Bo in Jesus Stuff, Leadership, PersonalI just got back from vacation and it was great. I went home to Georgia for about a week and I had some fun and got to relax a lot (which I needed severely). I also got to see some of my family that I haven’t seen in about 9 months or so. I got [...]
I was chewing on one of Mark Batterson’s latest blog posts. He was talking about why we don’t read our Bibles enough and why we should read our Bibles. If you want to read it, you can do so right here. Mark talks about Tyndale and the sacrifice he gave so that the Word of [...]
Well, tonight was the night. I finally started serving others at Southeast. Tonight has been a long time coming. I went to the youth gathering tonight to check it out and get a feel for it to see if it would be something that I would be interesting in doing to serve others and begin [...]