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STUDENT MINISTRY: Our Hearts During the Holidays
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If we aren’t careful, our hearts can be focused on the completely wrong things during the holidays. It doesn’t matter if we are 14 or 45. We tend to reflect our culture, which has consistently moved away from a Christ-focused Christmas. We can turn on “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and hear Linus share Luke’s account of Christmas, but that doesn’t make up for all the other junk we focus on. We are asked what we want for Christmas and even instructed to make lists for others. We are ...
STUDENT MINISTRY: Celebrating Your Team
In 2015, I was privileged to go through the Coaching Mastery Course with Dr. Keith Webb in the Seattle area. I learned a method of coaching others and many other great things. One of those was the great importance of celebration in our work and ministries. Unfortunately, it is something that we often neglect. We avoid it for fear of neglecting to mention someone, so we simply don’t do...