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Jon - who has written 5 posts on Open Source Youth Ministry.

Jon is a youth pastor waiting on God for the next step. One day he decided to build a website...

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My Paranoid Paradigm Shift

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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My Paranoid Paradigm Shift

Emergent, missional, organic, house churches, Kingdom building, global world-view, post-modern, open source, discipleship, multiplication, church planting… all sorts of wonderful buzzwords that have been on my mind in recent years. I have realized, almost to my own surprise, that I’m still evangelically minded at heart (*please read that by the biblical definition of evangel: “good [...]

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Silent Monks: Hallelujah Chorus

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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Silent Monks: Hallelujah Chorus

It’s a little late Christmas-wise (only 3 months) but it’s still worth a few minutes. Enjoy:

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‘The Calf Path’ by Sam Walter Foss

Monday, March 8, 2010

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‘The Calf Path’ by Sam Walter Foss

One day, through the primeval wood, A calf walked home, as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail, as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled, And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. [...]

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Dare to Dream: A Stable Cross-Platform Video Editor?

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Dare to Dream: A Stable Cross-Platform Video Editor?

For those of you who’ve never heard of VLC media player: GO DOWNLOAD IT NOW! That’s an order!
Basically, It’s a multimedia player that, well, just plain works (”out-of-the-box” if you like). I’ve already replaced Windows Media Player as default with VLC on every Redmond box I get a hold of [...]

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Youth Pastors: A Decade Into The Future

Friday, December 18, 2009

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Youth Pastors: A Decade Into The Future

What will we be like just 10 years? It’s a legitimate question, especially considering this decade is almost through (yeah: 2000 is just shy of 10 years ago). And it has been quite a decade! Well, over at REYouthPastor (formerly smalltownyouthpastor.com) Jeremy Zach asked the very same question back in October by taking a quick [...]

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