Sometimes you just want the noise to stop!
A very creative video depicting our digital-saturated, over-notified world…
Video description @ Vimeo:
One day I got an email, an sms, a phone call, a Facebook message and two tweets all within about 5 seconds of one another. This video is a re-manifestation of my brain’s interpretation of that event. #trustory
Lori secretly organized a surprise birthday lunch for our Office Manager @ Hayward Wesleyan, Linda, for a significant milestone birthday.
I don’t know if she was surprised or not, but when she walked into the room, she turned around and almost walked out!!
Happy Birthday, Miss Linda!
source YouTube
There are some reasons (maybe better put as excuses) that people have to not go to church. Not very good reasons, but they do have them:
HT All Pro Dad
source YouTube
Our community has been trying to address bullying in a proactive sort of way… at the very least we are trying raise awareness of it and tackle it in the places that awareness shines a light on.
Below is an infographic about bullying online:
HT Church Mag
source Online Counseling Degrees
Cool visual arrangement of the books of the Bible… kind of like a biblical periodic table 
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HT Church Mag
source Tim Challies
My, how far technology has come…
HT More Than Dodgeball
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Do you sometimes wonder if teenagers argue just because they want to argue? …for the mere pleasure of watching you, their wonderful parent, get suckered in and engaged in a meaningless argument for the purpose of… well… the argument?!
Then you’ll enjoy the classic clip below:
HT All Pro Dad
source YouTube
It’s tough and exhausting to stay up on all the “cool” fads in Youth Culture. I’m so glad that I’ve been in Youth Ministry long enough to know that “being cool” isn’t found in how you dress, or one’s ability to quote and sing a current Pop music song, rather “being cool” is found in how relationship with the Lord can transcend humanity’s various changing sub-cultures.
As the clip below illustrates: Jesus doesn’t belong in a box of all your past “cool” stuff, but rather in our hearts no matter what culture you are a part of…
HT Life in Student Ministry
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