confessions? why confessions? well, there is part of the definition that I thought fit perfectly. It said, "often HUMOROUS intimate revelations about a person's private life or occupation, esp. as presented in a sensationalized form in a book, newspaper, etc..." [or maybe even a BLOG??] That is exactly what my life is about... often HUMOROUS... sometimes serious... but always good times. That is exactly what this blog is about!
I want to start off by saying… I am in NO WAY a movie expert or a great movie critic… so if you don’t agree with me… It’s okay. That being said… I LOVED this movie. The one thing I have against this is just a minor thing… I don’t like the voice Bale uses when he is Batman… other than that… this movie was BY FAR the best BATMAN movie EVER MADE. There were so many great one liners and plot turns… it kept you engaged and guessing all the way through it. HEATH LEDGER, IMHO surpassed that of Jack Nicholson as the Joker. I found him to be WAY more believable. There were times when I forgot that he was playing a role and was sucked in to the demented, twisted mind of the Joker. If you haven’t seen this yet… YOU NEED TO. I don’t care if your a BATMAN fan or not. The acting in this movie was AMAZING. I would pay the $8.50 {yup… movies in Kokomo are only $8.50} to go see that again.
So I probably should be getting ready to leave my house to see the movie… but I was just too excited to not write about it. I’ll let you know what I thought of it later!!!
for all of you exclusive BLOG people… you get to see the OSM Bigstuf rules video early. This is the video we will use to kick off our 18 hour bus ride to the best week of the summer. ENJOY!
we leave for BIGSTUF camp this friday night @ 8.30pm. It is such an awesome time. We actually take a charter bus for 18 hours through the night and arrive @ panama city beach, Florida on saturday @ around 2pm. If you’ve never been to Bigstuf… then you should totally check it out. It is an amazing week. God moves huge in not only the lives of teenagers, but also in the lives of the leaders that are there. I am looking forward to it. Tonight we have our meeting with our leaders for bigstuf… I can’t believe that I actually have an agenda for the meeting tonight other than “here’s the info and your room list.” It should be a great meeting. check back periodically for BIGSTUF updates!
so my son Nicholas LOVES baseball. we play it almost every day. He has a little glove and a ball that he loves to “pitch” to daddy and I’ll hit with a blue plastic bat. It is the best game in town. Anyway… I told him “Nic, let’s watch a baseball game on TV” and he immediately grabbed his glove, ball, and hat and jumped up on the couch and started pounding his fist in his glove and said “YES… BASEBALL GAME… YES!” I love this kid!
here is the transcript for week three of our “who is Jesus” OSM talk. this was the final talk in our series. A lot of the info that we used for this series can be found in this book. here is the transcript:
i’ve seen some pretty ridiculous signs in my day… so I’m starting a series of posts that have to do with just that… dumb signs. If you have any pics of dumb signs… post back or ping back or whatever the blog terminology is and let’s see who can come up with the most ridiculous sign ever. Here is how I’m starting this whole thing off… I saw this sign in the Indianapolis children’s museum… I’m sure this is a necessary sign… but I found it rather humorous… ”AVOID DEATH.”
I’m sure I’m not the first or the last guy to have this happen to me… but my wife packed my lunch this morning in a Victoria’s Secret bag. I’m not sure how to feel about this. Should I feel embarrassed or feel like THE MAN?!?
It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these… so I forget which one I’m on. Summer is a great time to pause, slow down, and reflect on what new changes and directions your youth ministry needs to take. It’s also a great time to look back over the past year and celebrate wins. That’s what I’ve been doing today. I’ve really been feeling the need in our student ministry to create SPACE. We (youth pastors) are great at creating content and context… but often not very good at creating space for students to reflect. We’ve got songs to sing, sermons to preach, games to play… but how often do we create space for students to slow down and absorb? I can’t remember the last time I pushed the pause button long enough for students to reflect on what’s going on in their life. I guess I started to think about this today because we are in the process of decking out one of our break-out rooms and I started dreaming about what this space would be used for… small groups? check. Pizza hang outs? check. massive video game parties? check. spiritual reflective space? WHAT?!? the more I thought about it though… the more I realized that is what students {and you and I} need. We need all of the above. Let’s get great at creating SPACE for reflection and absorption.
samburke
