Episode 35: How to help your students discover their spiritual gifts
No body panic, but here is a new podcast on time! Thanks to Tom, Scott, Lee and Matthew for all showing up and talking about how to help students discover their spiritual gifts. We also talk about the new Facebook chat feature and as always our picks of the week!
Special thanks to our new show sponser YouthMinistry.com. This week’s show is specifically sponsored by Congratulations You’re Gifted,C by Erik Rees and Doug Fields. If you leave your suggestions on how to help students discover their spiritual gifts in the comments section then you could win a free copy of Congratulations You’re Gifted!
Show Notes
- Lifeway Spiritual Gift Survey
- Skype
- Off the Map - Jim Henderson (author of Jim and Casper go to Church
- Living Your Strengths
- Strengths Finder
Pick’s of the Week
Tom’s Pick: Flip Video Camera and Flip Software for Mac
Lee’s Picks: The Present Future and Jim and Casper go to Church
Scott’s Pick: animoto.com
Matthew’s Pick: The Journal of Student Ministries - Youth Specialties
Tony’s Pick: Congratulations You’re Gifted - Erik Rees and Doug Fields
Host Links
- Tony’s Facebook and Twitter
- Matthew’s Facebook and Twitter
- Tom’s Facebook and Twitter
- Lee’sFacebook and Twitter
- Scott’s Facebook and Twitter
Poke Wars: The Facebook Battle Ground
So a great friend of mine, Mike Schnee, and I recently connected on Facebook. Since we are both dorks, we have been relentlessly using the “poke” feature of Facebook. Beyond Mike and I having our own little poke war, I really don’t see any need at all for the feature. If I want to contact a friend I will message them or write on their wall. The poke seems pretty useless, except for the fact that it turns Mike and I into two junior high kids going to a field trip with too much energy and trapped on a bus … which is probably pretty accurate. :)Are you on Facebook? How do you use it in Ministry? Have you setup a Facebook group for your ministry? Or is it just a way to connect with friends from college?Tony’s ProfileJosh’s Profile
Priceless (Post with the Ad)
Craziness
Well first I apologize the blog and podcast have been acting weird lately. I have been on “live support chat” with bluehost like crazy over the past couple of days because I was unable to access the blog. What I have now found out is that I am the only one, and people who are connected to the same subnet (the hub that connects internet customers in smaller geographic area) are the only ones who can’t connect to anything on bluehost servers. But because my initial reactions were that I has messed something up I ended up relaunching the blog and the podcast.
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I am at a coffee shop now putting the pieces all back together. Luckily I had backed up my Mysql database which had everything, so there are only a few glitches I am still working through (stats with podpress and some broken links), but everything seems to be back to normal - except the part where I can’t connect to the blog from home.
What are your technology horror stories? We have all had them and this is a doozy, I am not even sure if it will be fixed any time soon.. LOL… craziness. Put your technology horror stories in the comments and lets laugh together so we don’t just cry… (tear) ha!
Bluehost was down, dang!
Hey everyone, sorry our site has been down, our hosting service (bluehost.com) was completely down for the last 12-24 hours. Pretty frustrating, especially when you aren’t sure if you have done something wrong or if it is them.
Anyways, this week has been super crazy with me beginning a job hunt and with Josh having a conference to run. But we are getting ready to record a podcast and we will get it live tonight!
Coffee Mold and Rectums
I went to college with Josh and he has always had a fascinating mind and a way with words that I envy. Here is an excerpt of an article on his blog, great stuff…
“I went to make coffee today. When I opened the lid to put in some grounds, I realized two things: 1. I hadn’t made coffee in a long time. 2. I left the grounds in the coffee maker last time I made coffee. 3. There was mold all over the place. So naturally, I started thinking about the old notion of spontaneous generation. (What can I say, I’m a geek.)”
Time Passes You By
Interesting possible observation made listening to six of the most amazing special effects gurus in Hollywood. I sat in a press room with the guys behind most of the big films you know and love.
For about 1/2 an hour I listened to them talk about the good old days. They talked about what’s wrong with the industry now. They talked about successes of the past. Really all of them talked about the good old days, except one named John, who was talking about the here and now.
The old way of doing special effects has really fundamentally changed. With the invention of the computer and the birth of the digital effects industry, no longer is there the same demand for model making, actual set building and miniature work.
Perhaps this concept is a bit generalized or oversimplified, but the point is - the times have changed.
You can talk about the good old days - what was and how it was a better time then - but the fact is, the revolution came and went and many were left behind. I’m not suggesting this to stomp on the old pioneering ways or to under-appreciate what people have done in the formative cutting edge past - I’m merely using it as a possible correlation to my personal and professional life to the here and now.
I must purposely advance or be left behind.
- As a young leader, are you looking at business/ministry models of the now or making models of the future?
- As a maturing pastor, is current methodology a signal you are ministering to a past generation?
- As a youth worker, are you focused on today or are you still riding the success of the good old days?
- As a web developer, are you resting on antiquated technology to communicate an urgent faith message?
- As an evangelist, am I pandering to the crowd I already have captured or am I pushing the message out to those who haven’t committed?
- As a visionary, am I too arrogant to use the mind of others or be a part of the team?
I’m not here to suggest that the old ways have all expired. These men are the reason movies like this exist. They created an industry, then the industry briskly advanced into the future.
The message remains the same, but the method must always change.
Either that, or we’ll end up being the 5 guys in a room talking about the good old days and there will be 1 guy still making movies.
JG
Josh as Survivor - man
Funniest YouTube Video I have Seen so far…
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