Crouching tiger, chasing geese
I love books about being dangerous, wild and crazy. I loved ‘Wild at Heart’ by John Eldredge, it awakened in me a sense of adventure and life!
The same effect is being felt as I read ‘Wild Goose Chase’ by Mark Batterson.
I recieved a copy today and started reading it tonight. Mark is a clever man and has given away a bunch of copies to bloggers to review to generate some buzz. So here goes some buzz for ya!
I love it already! 
Any book that takes the subject of pursuing God and turns it into an adventure is my kind of book.
“I would like to think that…at the end of our church services, I am sending dangerous people back into their natural habitat to wreak havoc on the enemy.”
Bring it on!
I have said it before that our kids need to know deep down in their bones that to follow Christ is an unpredictable adventure!
I am posting this from my phone and as I mentioned, have not finished the book so a more thorough review is forth coming. Stay tuned.
Twittering Kidshaper
At some ungodly hour I will awaken tomorrow and get on a little bus and make my way down south… Way down South to Melbourne to Kidshaper, our annual national Children’s ministry conference.
We are taking not just our staff this year, but a whole bunch of volunteers so it will be a blast!!!
I plan to Twitter the conference which will hopefully be a better experience than the one at our Colour conference a few months ago.
It turns out it’s hard to blog a conference while serving at it! (who knew).
I am speaking in just one elective so I will have a lot more time to comment on the messages and ministry.
So follow the Twitter stream at http://Twitter.com/kidinspiration
If you are coming, see you there! My elective is on Thursday afternoon, come and say hi!
Be interesting.
I have three questions for you today.
And I’m not giving you the answers.
They relate to you as a leader and more importantly someone who is shaping the world view of a generation.
1. Why do I need to know all the answers?
Lost creator and Cloverfield producer J.J. Abrams has a “mystery box” from New York’s Tannen’s Magic store. This is what he says about it: It’s a cardboard box with a question mark printed on it. It’s one of those things you buy for $15 and they advertise that it has at least $20 worth of stuff inside.
He’s never opened it.
“I love the fact that it has this mysterious value as long as I don’t open it.” - J.J. Abrams
Our job is to instill into children a sense of wonder and mystery about God. (Romans 11:25; 16:25, 1 Cor 15:51, Eph 1:9) He can never be completely comprehended, but he reveals himself to us.
Knowable, yet completely unknowable.
Mystery.
2. Why is the part of church life that should be the easiest to build is the hardest?
Community should be easy. Why do we have to work so hard to be relevant?
A group of people connecting around a common goal and purpose.
I think it may be about moving people out of comfort into discomfort. During the aftermath of a tragedy no one complains about the air conditioning - you just want to stay alive and will connect with whoever you can to do so. And that is the most uncomfortable you could ever be.
Community
3. Have I ignored beauty because it was from a non-approved source?
Beautiful art can come from other religions… even Hollywood.
All beauty comes from God.
No matter the human source, they are acknowledging the creator (without even knowing it sometimes).
Beauty
A person like this is interesting.
I like helping kids become interesting.
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
NOTE: These are some fairly unrelated thoughts. If you find them confusing, I probably will in the morning.
Let me just say…
It’s 10:51 PM Sunday night.
I feel like writing something down.
I feel a little quirky. It might just be the album I just bought (on the itunes store on my iPhone - didn’t even leave my bed) (the fact I just told you that makes me a little sad).
Medeski, Martin and Wood are one of my favourite bands. Hard to categorise… they are kinda Jazz, Groove, Funk etc.
They released a kids album at the beginning of the year… ‘Let’s go Everywhere‘.
I just found out about it!
It’s GREAT. Just a bunch of REALLY Flippin’ awesome musicians playing music their kids will love.
Very timely, as we write songs for this years kids album - don’t be surprised if this next album features some funk grooves.
MP4’s Available Now
So click this link right here to check out all the Video Accompaniment Tracks for Tell The World you can download right now to use in your Children’s Ministry!
These videos are in MP4 format you can either burn to DVD, or use a software program like Mediashout to play from your computer!
Thought Provoking
Great post from Marcy Ribeiro about the Orange conference - which I really would love to attend some time… maybe next year… we’ll see.
So there is some very thought-provoking thoughts from Reggie Joyner.
The Role of the Small Group Leader.
They model five faith skills and model the top 5 defining moments.
They are there to show up in their kids lives!
People coming besides others is huge
SGL holds the KEY to spiritual growth
5 Faith Skills [Every SGL should create a safe place and implement:]
Navigate the Bible
Personalize/Memorize Scripture
Dialog/Pray to God
Articulate/Share their faith
Worship with your life:
Leaders/Volunteers should be worshipping with the kids
We do it together to remember that the next day is a sacrifice. [Corporate- like when we take the Lord’s Supper/Communion]
Worship plays as a symbol; we live it everyday
Read on here Orange Forum…
Just before I leave.
On holiday for a week with the family - but before I go, here is some muppet youtube awesomeness!
Christine Caine on Conference
Just a quick link to Christine Caine’s report on conference!
Love this!!
A powerful moment for me was when I was teaching an elective on evangelistic preaching and altar calls and halfway through I just felt to stop and do a salvation altar call. (Remember: I was in the midst of teaching how to give one.) Twenty-four people surrendered their lives to Jesus then and there - it was AMAZING…
Jelly Telly Promo
Phil Vischer has just posted the “official” 28 minute JellyTelly demo video for all the world to see at www.jellytelly.tv
This is the coolest concept I have seen in a long time! And the programming is REALLY good. Great animation and quality segments! The great thing is that this is just the start, and the future could be massive…
Get involved, subscribe your family and help get this thing flying!
Welcome to [Kid Inspiration]
This website was founded by David Wakerley. The words on this site are more than just hyperbole -- they are a philosophy. To view the Kingdom of God here on earth as anything less than a matchless opportunity is tragic.
I care about passion, communication, the bible, kids, children's ministry, generations, leadership that makes a difference.
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- kidinspiration: playing billionaire with the bus. It's noisy
- kidinspiration: Kidshaper: ok the bus is crazy. You know how ideas seem like a good idea. Yeah. Well. 10 hours to go.
- kidinspiration: @nerdfeliz oh where is carlos and does he not tweet more often. :-)
- kidinspiration: @kidologist facebook him?
- kidinspiration: The pope is leaving Sydney right now. World youth day was a huge success I think.
- kidinspiration: Touched down in the gold coast ready for 7 days of relaxo action. Maybe check out a couple theme parks anything is possible.
- kidinspiration: @pudgehuckaby the thing is with wrecks is that everyone likes to slow down for a good look. :)
- kidinspiration: Discovered that it pretty hard to Twitter a conference if you are running a large portion of it! Will restrict live tweets to conf attending
- kidinspiration: @mattmckee totally missed this tweet 8 weeks ago re: big curric. Starting new curric very soon, if we ever test at other churches you're up!
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