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Some More Links for Everyone!

February 11, 2010 Jacob Wood Leave a comment

Most Amazing Carrot Cake Recipe Kim made this for my “After-Fast” birthday cake and it was AMAZING!

Great thoughts on Preaching…

A Great Filming Tool Inovation for iPhone 3GS A normally expensive piece of equipment for sale just for iPhone… I would LOVE one of these!

Great new TV show for Leaders I’ve only seen a couple episodes so far, but I really like it!

Hearing God’s Voice A great blog post from, one cool pastor!

Mosaic Church Enters Doritos Super Bowl Ad Contest Erwin McManus’s church entered a funny video for super bowl day and it’s in the top 4… check it out, it’s pretty funny!

iPad already causing Trouble for Amazon It hasn’t even been released yet and Apple is shaking things up already.

10 Weird Trends for Teens in 2010 An interesting read for parents and anyone who works with teens

What If The Parisees Had Twittered? Funny post from Perry Noble

Print Solution for Your iPhone Want to print from your iPhone… here you go.

Who Do Teens Call, Trust and Talk With…? Mom? Dad? Friends? Boyfriend/Girlfriend? Find out here!

Do It Yourself Hacks for the iPhone Want a free way to have a loudspeaker for the iPhone… good idea and it works!

JW


Categories: Blogs

A smorgasbord of links for everyone…

February 9, 2010 Jacob Wood Leave a comment

A dog shoots Man Funny story about a dog who shot a guy

Time Magazine on TV Show GLEE An interesting look at teen hit show “Glee” and whether or not it’s anti-christian. Interesting that TIME did this…

Early Bedtimes for teens protect against depression An interesting scientific study about the effects of sleep and teenagers

Cheesy Pepperoni Pizza Dip We made this for our snow day… amazing!

Taco Logo App There’s an app for that… to find your closest mexican taco stand!

25 New High Quality Free Fonts We can always use free fonts!

Cryingwife.com A hilarious collection of videos of a husband who films his wife after she cries in movies

10 Foods you Should Add to Your Diet

Francis Chan Teaching Notes Francis Chan’s message at a conference on taking Jesus literally… good stuff!


Categories: Blogs

Some Cool Links for Everyone

January 31, 2010 Jacob Wood Leave a comment

An assortment of links for all kinds of people:

Pants on the Ground Video American Idol laugh (You’ve probably already seen it)

Funny Ramblings from a good friend looking for a good blog to read… here you go!

Chocolate Surprise Cakes Me and Kim have been waiting for our fast to be over just for this!

Best Post-It Notes Video EVER! Very creative!

Creative design for book sleeves and bookmarks I love people who think outside the box

Don’t Set Goals… A good article on letting your story drive the process

Teenager Media Consumption Interested facts on teenage media usage

Wisdom Nuggets Some good stuff to chew on

JW


Categories: Blogs

Some Cool Links for Everyone

January 12, 2010 Jacob Wood Leave a comment

Here is my end of the week links. A little everything for everybody. Once again, if have any good blog recommendations, just send them my way.

Headbanger Baby Video … A funny video

Passion Builders & Stealers … Great read for leaders

iPhone Facebook App … More info on the new COOL features of Facebook app

Cartoon Characters in Real Life … some funny life-like pictures :)

Single Ladies – Beyonce … Creative way to get your bands name out on Youtube (they have more songs too)

Spiritual Themes in “Avatar”… Haven’t seen the movie but always love Tim Steven’s thoughts

Ten for the Next Ten … Interesting piece BONO did over at the New York Times

Spaghetti with Bacon and Eggs … On paper this sounds gross, but the picture makes me want it!

Chrome for Mac gets Extensions … If you haven’t made the switch to CHROME… why not? I love it and now it has extensions… check it out!

Now go and have some fun

JW


Categories: Blogs

Starbucks…

November 7, 2009 Jacob Wood 1 comment

Read this great short article from another youth ministry blogger that I thought was good.  Here is his website if you want to read more. http://joshpease.wordpress.com

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I’ve gotten really tired of comparing the Church to corporations. And I’m just tired in general of critiquing the Church. It’s starting to feel like poking fun at your old, slightly senile grandma. Sure she’s a little crazy, but you love her not just because she’s family, but because we’re all a little crazy right, and who are we?

I just felt like I had to get that out of the way before saying …

… that I was at Starbucks today getting some writing done. And as happens every holiday season at Starbucks an employee was cruising the store, passing out dixie cup shots of caffeinated holiday cheer. Today’s was egg nog coffee. Bad idea.

Anyway, Promotional Barista Guy offered a sample to these two ladies who were sitting at a couch talking and one lady turned him down saying “I’m not really a coffee drinker.” And all I could think was “really? You know you’re at Starbucks right?”

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that Starbucks is absolutely brilliant. They’ve managed to create a space so inviting, that people who really want nothing to do with their product, who passionately are AGAINST consuming coffee, will come to their place to catch up with a friend, to find a quiet place to read or work, to do life.

And what Starbucks probably knows is that, given enough time, this non-coffee drinking lady will eventually come around to coffee. It will start subtly — ordering a chai tea, or one of their smoothies or something. But then one day she’ll eventually accept Promo Barista Guy’s free sample, and to her surprise find she likes it, and next thing she knows she’s a coffee drinker without even knowing when that change happened.

And this really isn’t anything new, but it hit me in that moment this is what the church should be like (and in its better moments is ) — a place where people might not be all that interested in Jesus, but where they feel comfortable, and connect with others, and experience community and maybe — over time — realize they developed a love for Jesus without even knowing how that started.

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