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How to make a Twitter Youth Group Newsletter

August 31, 2009 28 Comments

Thanks for checking out our youth group’s Twitter newsletter. If this is your first time to Pomomusings, please subscribe to the RSS feed here and you can subscribe to my Twitter Feed here. You can also find more of my youth ministry posts here, including the Top 20 All-Time Best Youth Ministry Games.

A couple of nights ago, I sat down to make the monthly newsletter. Not something I totally hate – but generally one of those “time-suck” duties of youth ministry. I use iWork’s Pages to design it and had been using a template for the past year – but with the fall starting up, I wanted to come up with something else. So, at 6:42pm I asked my tweeps a question about ideas for a new design for our newsletter:

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Rethink Church: A Collaborative Sermon

August 29, 2009 14 Comments

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I’m preaching next Sunday, September 6, in the middle of our co-pastor’s series on “Rethink Church.” The United Methodist currently has a new campaign going on entitled “RETHINK CHURCH” and we’re playing with that this month at Asbury UMC. Out of all the ways that we definitely need to be rethinking church, I think the sermon is one that could definitely use a lot of work. And I’d like to preach a sermon on “rethinking church” by trying some new things when it comes to the sermon itself, including the preparation.

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Twitter: What’s the point?

August 24, 2009 11 Comments

twitter-bird-5Over the past few months, I’ve been asked by many people “Why do you tweet?” or “What’s so great about Twitter?” It’s a completely valid question and one that I love talking about. I signed up for Twitter back in April of 2007, used it for a weekend, and thought it was ridiculous. Who in the world wanted to know what I was doing. I was only following a few people and not many were following me, and it seemed like I was just sending out meaningless bits of information about my day to know one. Which I was probably was. And I had just read this article about being hyperconnected. And so I quit.

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Credo: Triune God

August 22, 2009 4 Comments

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This post is part of the Credo Blog Series. For some basic information about the series, go here. Photo Credit.

I believe that God is three persons in one substance. Within the trinity exists the perfect and holy love communion between God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The trinity is a perfect, three-in-one relationship between the three distinct persons of God. The three persons in the trinity are unified together by the same goal: to do the work of Christ and to bring people into relationship with God. They are diverse from each other, but are all completely equal. There is no hierarchy between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit within the trinity.

Someone asked in the first Credo post on God why I didn’t refer to Jesus or the Trinity? Well – I could have been snarky and say something like, “Well – since the BIBLE never uses the word “Trinity” – why should I in my Credo? But it’s really just because I’m going through my Credo according to the way I split up the topics up when I made the Credo in 2000. However, I don’t know that one can really talk about God without talking about God’s relational nature and mutual indwelling (or, one of everyone’s favorite seminary words: interpenetration – snicker snicker…) of the other parts of the Godhead.

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