Open Source Youth Ministry

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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Whats Been Up?

It’s been in the back of my mind for a couple of months now. I sit around thinking to myself, “Self, it’s really time you start putting in the time you need to for OSYM.” Well, it’s been a while, January 8th to be exact. A lot has happened since then. Right now what I’m [...]

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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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