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Luke 5 for youthworkers...

Great encouraging post for this morning from Marko...read on, youthworkers!

http://whyismarko.com/2010/luke-5-for-youth-workers/

 

Teresa of Avila quote...

How did those priests ever get so serious and preach all that gloom? I don’t think God tickled them yet. Beloved—hurry!

Tim Leeson's "An Attempt at Intelligent Comment"

You really have to read this post - for me it summarises so much of the frustrations of Twitter as a medium of connection with others but also shows just how much we need this kind of immediacy to actually engage with the issues. Tim Leeson in this brilliant post talks through a whole heap of issues with a keen mix of humility, certainty, a wee touch of arrogance but none the less insightful and deserving of a snippet of your time...comments welcome, on Twitter and on here!

"I recently criticised comedian Tim Minchin on Twitter:

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Missional Communities [A Field Guide]

Missional Communities [A Field Guide]

Could this be your Church/Vicar??

BBC Songs of Praise have joined forces with Children in Need for a special programme to be presented by Sir Terry Wogan on Sunday 17 October 2010. A 'Vicar Challenge' is to be launched, in which vicars and ministers across the country are encouraged to raise money for Children in Need by participating in weird and wonderful fundraising events. The organisers are looking for good ideas from early adopters that can be featured on the programme. A leaflet with further information is below.

HT Church Times Blog

The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not...

The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, button-down, moralistic people. The licentious and liberated or the broken and marginal avoid church. That can only mean one thing. If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did. If out churches aren’t appealing to “younger brothers” they must be more full of elder brothers than we’d like to think. Tim Keller

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The Christian Apprentice - developing leadership in girls

The Christian Apprentice is for girls aged 14 and over who want to develop their leadership skills. It's a three-day residential experience at Cliff College, Derbyshire, led by Sharon Prior that youth leaders can attend with their girls.

via blog.sophianetwork.org.uk

Form, content and character in church meetings | Transforming Grace

A God glorifying church meeting is a combination of three things.

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What what you are REALLY saying in The Creed this morning?? 

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an amazing prayer...

Salvadoran martyr Archbishop Oscar Romero:

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