John 1:29-42: Bearing Witness Today

This morning I had the privilege of preaching at the First Presbyterian Church in Livermore. Over the past 18 months or so, I’ve had the joy of getting to know Steve Wilde, the senior pastor at FPCL. Also, in my process of transferring to the Presbytery of San Francisco, I became a member of FPCL and am currently under care of this congregation. They were really supportive of us when we lost Micah and Judah, and there has been a group of folks who have consistently come to the Theology Pub I started here in town. So it was great to finally attend worship and be able to preach at this church. The texts were Psalm 40:1-11 and John 1:29-42. The text for the sermon is below.

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Youth Ministry: Where’s Your Focus?

I spent some time this afternoon thinking about our youth ministry programming over the past year. I had read this blog entitled “Do you keep pushing youth ministry buttons that don’t work?” and it got me thinking about our youth ministry program.

Having been one of Kenda Creasy Dean’s students at Princeton Theological Seminary, one question that will forever be stuck in the back of my mind when planning youth ministry programming is “What is the theological foundation for _______?” Before going to seminary, I probably planned a bunch of stuff with my previous youth group for no real good reason. It may have been because I just thought there were certain activities I “had” to do at youth group. Or maybe there were just things that we’d always done that I needed to keep doing. But I didn’t really think very theologically about what I was doing.

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Read Pomomusings on Your Kindle

While I’m not sure how many people actually subscribe to blogs on their Kindles, I thought I’d at least offer you the opportunity to subscribe to Pomomusings if you want.

If you want to subscribe, here is the link to the Kindle version of Pomomusings.

Also – if anyone is interested and willing to write a review of Pomomusings there on the Amazon site, that’d be great. I’m guessing that not many folks will subscribe, but it may open up a new audience to the blog, and more voices to the conversation is always great.

So what do you think? Do any of you read blogs on your Kindle? Do you find that it’s worth it and an enjoyable way to read them?