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Personal Reflection

The daily cycle of my summer so far

Posted on 13 July 2009

A couple weeks ago my buddy, Tony Myles, asked me to write up a description of my daily routine — my “daily grind,” if you will — as an illustration for a sermon at his church. You can listen to his sermon on his church’s website. The message is titled, “Living, Praying, and Talking With [...] Continue Reading

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Time Out

Time Out: Self-centered obedience (Jonah)

Posted on 12 July 2009

Time Out (by Jerry Schmoyer) The life of Jonah makes a great story for children, but the man himself isn’t much of an example for us to follow. He ran away from God, then reluctantly carried out the duty God had for him. He went through the motions and did what was required by warning the [...] Continue Reading

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Podcasts

Podcast: One year anniversary show of LIVE YM Talk

Posted on 10 July 2009

Today is our one year anniversary of LIVE YM Talk! We briefly reflected on the past year of guests, topics and how the show morphed into what it is today, then we all answered the question, “What have you learned about youth ministry in the past year?” We all learned quite a range of different [...] Continue Reading

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Friday Freebie, Music

Freebie Friday #133: Rockin Road Tunes music CD

Posted on 10 July 2009

This week’s freebie is pretty cool. With all the road trips we’re taking with our youth group kids, it seems obvious that we need some good rockin’ tunes we can all jam to while we travel. Interlinc already thought of it and wants to send you a FREE music CD with 19 songs with music from [...] Continue Reading

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Blogging, Personal Reflection

Slowing down my blogging pace for a couple weeks

Posted on 08 July 2009

I usually publish something every day except Sundays here at Life In Student Ministry, but over the next couple weeks I need to slow that down considerably. There’s a lot going on personally and in my ministry that needs extra attention for a while. I’m writing a book that will be published sometime within the next [...] Continue Reading

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Time Out

Time Out: The servant who became the master (Elisha)

Posted on 05 July 2009

Time Out (by Jerry Schmoyer) Elisha doesn’t get as much attention as many other Bible servants, but he is among the best. For many years he was a student of Elijah and served his master faithfully and loyally. When Elijah was dying and Elijah asked what his wish was, Elisha said he wanted to minister as [...] Continue Reading

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Podcasts

Podcast: Marriage and youth ministry

Posted on 04 July 2009

Today in our LIVE YM Talk, my beautiful wife, Dana Schmoyer, joined me and together we talked about marriage and youth ministry. Fortunately, Tom Roepke, a guy who’s been married in youth ministry for the past 30 years, joined us, too. Many great insights and advice from him in this week’s podcast. Some of the things [...] Continue Reading

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Friday Freebie

Freebie Friday #132: Audiobook download of “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan

Posted on 02 July 2009

For the month of July you can download the unabridged audio recording of Francis Chan’s book, “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God.” If you haven’t read the book, here’s the perfect way to hear it for free! I read the book a while ago and, although I disagree with some of the theology and thus [...] Continue Reading

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