Reggie Joiner, a main speaker at National Youth Workers Convention in Cincinatti, said we need to create bridges between parents and youth. Criticizing parents or trying to take their place of importance is never good for kids. He said this cool phrase I want to memorize and recite to parents/kids in the midst of conflict.
“Your relationship with your parent/teen is more important than it feels right now. Don’t disengage.”
“People change when the pain associated with the status quo becomes greater than the pain associated with the change.”
I found a cool quote in Randy Alcorn’s book that connects with my first book’s title.
“This world is not my home, everything will burn, leaving behind only what’s eternal.”
I wish I had found this before I published it. I never articulated this fact as clearly as Alcorn does here. The eternal work we do is the only thing we cannot leave behind. It will go with us to Heaven for all eternity! Wow!
From his book Heaven:
“Our belief that Heaven will be boring betrays a heresy–that God is boring.”
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Stuff Christians Like blog author Jon Acuff on satire.
“Satire is not permission to be a jerk. It’s humor with a purpose
Jon Acuff spoke at National Youth Workers Convention in Cincinatti last week. He’s the author of the hilarious blog Stuff Christians Like. Here was a rather poetic musing by him about using humor in our sermons to kids.
“It’s easier to scan the clouds for ideas than to chum the water for sharks.”
“The best definition of man is a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”
Great Russian novelist. Probably not a guy you’d want to get cornered by at a party, but he’s certainly thought-provoking.
“What is man? A miserable pile of secrets.”
