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Walk_to_Manhood.pdf |
Walk To Manhood. In
June of 2004 I invited five men to participate in a ceremony
celebrating my youngest son’s graduation from high school
and his move from being a boy to becoming a man. It was
called Logan Webster’s Walk to Manhood. In our American
culture we lack a ritual that inaugurates a boy moving
from childhood into manhood. As young guys grow up in
America there is the experience of being a boy, then a
moving into adolescence…and then at some unknown time
a male theoretically becomes a man... |
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Hardwired_to_Connect.pdf |
Hardwired To Connect:
The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Community. A
commission of 33 distinguished children’s doctors,
research scientists, mental health and youth service
professionals was formed because of the concern over
the rising rates of mental illness, behavioral problems
and emotional distress among U.S. children and teens.
Their goal was to review what they saw as the fundamental
inadequacies in our conceptual models for thinking about
how to promote child and youth development. The commission
came up with six key findings that not surprisingly
support the philosophy of Nurturing Parenting...
http://www.americanvalues.org/html/hardwired.html |
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Become_a_Training_Leader.pdf |
Becoming
a Training Leader by Dan Webster
As a leader do you ever wonder what exactly you should
be teaching and modeling to those under your care? A retired
United States nuclear submarine captain recently told
me about his priorities in training young leaders. He
shared with me how... |
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Defeating_Discouragement.pdf |
Defeating
Discouragement by Bill Allison
While everyone has highs and lows, it has been my experience
and observation that church leaders seem to have a proclivity
for higher highs and much lower lows. Indeed, my ministry
experience has always been a mountain top experience.
Either I’ve been on the top of the mountain or the
mountain has been on top of me... |
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Finding_True_North.pdf |
Finding
True North by Dan Webster
Jeremiah was a faithful prophet with very few hiccups
in his walk with God. The older I get the more that impresses
me. I turned 50 this last year and I’ve found myself
reflecting more on the concept of faithfulness... |
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Speaking_to_Change_Lives.pdf |
Speaking
to Change Lives by Dan Webster
It’s Monday morning and you are sitting at your
desk quietly reading your Bible attempting to recover
from a busy weekend of ministry. You are enjoying a few
moments with the Lord when suddenly your solitude is interrupted
by a phone call from Mrs. Finklemier, a Humanities teacher
from one of the local high schools. She mentions to you
that she is beginning her unit on Religion and wonders
if you would be interested in coming to her school and
addressing her college prep Humanities class on the issue
of Religion and Society... How do you approach this opportunity... |
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WORK_OF_HEART_Excerpt.pdf |
A Work
of Heart by Reggie McNeal
Reggie’s book, A Work Of Heart, is one
of the best books written on leadership in the last ten
years. This download is a small section of Chapter 8 (pages
137-141) for you to read. Once you read this, get the
book... it’s wonderful! At the end of the reading
you’ll find a study I put together for you from
Psalm 18. |
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Condition_of_US_Youth_Workers.pdf |
The
Condition of Youth Workers in America
by Dan Webster
Youth ministry has come a long way baby! When I entered
full time student ministry in the early 1970’s most
people doing the work were not looking at it
as a life long career option. Most looked at youth ministry
as a necessary step in their career development... Today
this is no longer true... People are waking up to the
fact that while the student population may only represent
20% of those living in an area, they are 100% of our future... |
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DeliberateCrazy.pdf |
Deliberate
Crazy by Brian Wells
Brian Wells is the Director of Spiritual Formation at
Crossroads Community Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. Brian is
one of the leading thinkers on how leaders develop in
the church and this article is profound in its implications.
Brian can be contacted at bwells@crossroadscommunity.net. |
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Lead_Yourself_First.pdf |
Lead
Yourself First by Dan Webster
By the fall of 1989 I had arrived. Everything on the surface
of my life glittered. If you were in the world of student
ministry, chances are you had heard of me and my even
have wished that you had my job. In my chosen vocational
field, I was at the top of my game... |
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Truth_Beyond_Telling.pdf |
A Truth
Beyond Telling by Cassidy Dale
Is the quest for faith like science, a search for irreducible
truth? Or is it like art, a search to express something
that is beyond telling... |
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Blackstone_Scholarship.pdf |
WHY
CAN IMMORALITY BE LEGISTLATED MORE EASILY THAN MORLITY
IN AMERICA? by Daniel Appel
Our day calls for clear thinking as we face the challenge
of both being moral leaders and communicating on the topic
of moral leadership. In this Blackstone Scholarship award
winning paper, Daniel Appel, compels us to such a place.
Daniel Appel is an attorney who currently lives in the
Washington state and is the nephew of Dan Webster. |
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God's Problem Review.pdf |
Review God's
Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most
Important Question—Why We Suffer by
William H. Willimon
Theologian William Willimon has penned a devastating review of Bart Ehrman's
book God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question
– Why We Suffer. Read the Christian Century article here. |
