I have a man crush on Doug Fields.
Slept in and got great seats to hear from Doug on ministry envy. Great message. I do deal with envy on a number of different levels. Not in the typical ways that I used to, i.e. guys in ministry, other churches, people speaking, etc. But in other ways that are just as deadly. I had big expectations for Doug's message and he delivered.
I left my seminar to update the blog. Now I'm caught up but truly dissappointed in the lack of creativity in my updating.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
YS day 2
Started the day with a seminar about powerpoint which was so helpful. My buddy Phil knows my hisory of graphic design and when we were in Nashvile he gained so much from the workshop so that I didn't want to miss it and wasnt' dissappointed.
The next general session was with Phyllis Tickle (sp) and she was great. No wonder my SP really loves her stuff. I hope I'm still with it at 74 years old. I was scraping the bottom of the barrell (it seemed like) to keep up with her. Really really good stuff. A lot of emergent stuff and history.
Went to see Les and he talked me into staying for his seminar on creativity.
The last general session was Louie Giglio and I was so tired that I had a hard time really paying attention. His message was about how we can trust God even when things are hitting the fan. It was a good word and an intriguing story, I was just way zapped.
Bob, Nicole, Jen and I had a lot of laughs at the late night comedy.
and so ended a long day 2
The next general session was with Phyllis Tickle (sp) and she was great. No wonder my SP really loves her stuff. I hope I'm still with it at 74 years old. I was scraping the bottom of the barrell (it seemed like) to keep up with her. Really really good stuff. A lot of emergent stuff and history.
Went to see Les and he talked me into staying for his seminar on creativity.
The last general session was Louie Giglio and I was so tired that I had a hard time really paying attention. His message was about how we can trust God even when things are hitting the fan. It was a good word and an intriguing story, I was just way zapped.
Bob, Nicole, Jen and I had a lot of laughs at the late night comedy.
and so ended a long day 2
Rest of Friday at YS
Went to Chap Clark's seminar about middle school ministry. Really good stuff. Also a good reminder of some basic things that I have been neglecting and really need to put into practice.
I was really looking forward to the second main session because of this guy who Nicole is crazy about Shane Clairborne (I think that's his name, I'm so dumb.)
Anyway, he took the stage, spat fire, did a back flip, and then said he was honored to share with us the greatest sermon ever.
Then he proceeded to read the Sermon on the Mount and closed by saying a prayer that God would give us the strength to really live it. And that was it.
I was really looking forward to hearing from him. I figured he'd tell some wild stories and I'd want to read his book. then he started reading. And I figured he'd either read it and be done or he'd read it and use it to jump off of for his talk. I figured the latter. but he did the former.
A lot could be said about this. However, I loved it. I thought it was the perfect compliment to Andy Stanley's message earlier in the day where he said, "What do you do when you know you are the most important person in the room? You need to leverage your power to serve others."
So what does this Shane guy do when he realizes he is the most important person in the room, when he could totally just say whatever he wants, use the platform to espouse politica ideas or to sell his book?
No. He humbles himself and lets the Word of God speak. Total humility. I thought it was beautiful!
After the main session I had three things I wanted to do. This is typical of YS. I can't do it all. I wanted to meet Jay Howver, I wanted to say Hi to Andy from Wheaton, and I am a sucker for magic tricks.
Between trips to all three I saw a few lame card tricks from the magicians, met Andy Jack in the elevator and he remembered me from Nashville when Kurt Johnston bought us all dinner, and got to meet Jay finally.
I also got to meet Len Evans, a guy I think a lot of, and totally made an ass of myself. Totally frustrating. I was exhausted and as what often happens, I speak without thinking. So Jay and Len probably think I'm an idiot, which is true sometimes. Hopefully I can make it up to both of them.
So glad to be at YS.
I was really looking forward to the second main session because of this guy who Nicole is crazy about Shane Clairborne (I think that's his name, I'm so dumb.)
Anyway, he took the stage, spat fire, did a back flip, and then said he was honored to share with us the greatest sermon ever.
Then he proceeded to read the Sermon on the Mount and closed by saying a prayer that God would give us the strength to really live it. And that was it.
I was really looking forward to hearing from him. I figured he'd tell some wild stories and I'd want to read his book. then he started reading. And I figured he'd either read it and be done or he'd read it and use it to jump off of for his talk. I figured the latter. but he did the former.
A lot could be said about this. However, I loved it. I thought it was the perfect compliment to Andy Stanley's message earlier in the day where he said, "What do you do when you know you are the most important person in the room? You need to leverage your power to serve others."
So what does this Shane guy do when he realizes he is the most important person in the room, when he could totally just say whatever he wants, use the platform to espouse politica ideas or to sell his book?
No. He humbles himself and lets the Word of God speak. Total humility. I thought it was beautiful!
After the main session I had three things I wanted to do. This is typical of YS. I can't do it all. I wanted to meet Jay Howver, I wanted to say Hi to Andy from Wheaton, and I am a sucker for magic tricks.
Between trips to all three I saw a few lame card tricks from the magicians, met Andy Jack in the elevator and he remembered me from Nashville when Kurt Johnston bought us all dinner, and got to meet Jay finally.
I also got to meet Len Evans, a guy I think a lot of, and totally made an ass of myself. Totally frustrating. I was exhausted and as what often happens, I speak without thinking. So Jay and Len probably think I'm an idiot, which is true sometimes. Hopefully I can make it up to both of them.
So glad to be at YS.
NYWC update
Evidently I'm an idiot and can't figure out how to get the internet working in my room at the holiday inn, so I'm finally at the digital lounge for my update.
YS is such a great place for me to come to be refocused on the little things that are so basic that I'm missing. In a lot of ways it's been really rewarding and affiming of what we are doing in ministry. In other ways I'm reminded of how far we have to go. But i really love and appreciate YS and am so glad to be here, with my sweet wife no less, and two of our youth coaches.
I'll make this short:
Friday opening session:
~the sand guy was good. Had huge expectations based on Marko's blog and Sean's. but it was still really good.
~Andy Stanley lead the first session and Marko made a big deal about Andy's last talk and how he was never going to speak at YS again, but all got resolved. Jen and I had been here for the last talk and we couldn't remember for the life of us what all the hubbub was.
~Andy talked about being humble...and it was great, especially later in the day. I ALWAYS appreciate guys/youthworkers/speakers who are humble.
~it was so fun to watch Bob and Nicole enjoy YS and all that it offers. It's a blast to be here with all of them.
I'll update the rest later! promise!
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