Talks
Cabin Time Questions For Ordinary Club Talks
Help for Young Life Leaders NOW has some great advice for weekend camp speakers.
I recently spoke at a YL weekend camp. One of the best pieces of YL camp speaking advice I ever received was to plan your cabin time questions before you plan your talk.
That is outstanding advice, but reading the post gave me [...]
Gospel-Centered Everything…Even Topical Discussions
I’ve had some great discussions over the past year or so about making Jesus central to every Young Life talk we do. That’s easy most of the time, but challenging when it comes to particularly the Sin talk – telling kids about our separation from God due to our sinfulness. But still, Jesus is & [...]
Lost In Translation
Here’s a fun little website called BlahblahFish that takes a phrase, translates it into any of a number of languages, then translates that back into English. There’s probably a good illustration about connecting or communication somewhere here.
For instance, here are some translation translations of the phrase, “Please stay seated until the ride comes to a [...]
Here’s Your Need Talk
Man, it doesn’t get any better than this. Donald Miller talked about this 60 Minutes interview with Tom Brady, at the staff conference. Here’s the youtube link if you haven’t seen it or used it yet.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdcJSsRfL8s]
Geisha Guys Highlight Need For Relationships
I just posted last night about how life is all about relationships, then this morning I came across a story about Geisha Guys in Japan.
What does a Geisha Guy do?
To quote one of my favorite speakers on relationships, Tommy Nelson – they are “pimping tenderness”.
Highly successful women in Japan still seem to find an emptiness [...]
Can Barbara Walters Get You To Live To Be 150?
An ABC Barbara Walters special aired last night to throw out the question, is it possible to live to be 150?
Walters, 78, interviews experts in such fields as cloning, cryonics, stem-cell research and drug therapies, but she also presents the stories of everyday people who have reached 100 and beyond. One is a retired college [...]
My Club Talk Principles
Last night after Club, I got in a conversation with one of our leaders about how her club talk went. Between that conversation and one I had had with her earlier in the evening as she was preparing to do her talk, I realized I had have several priciples I try to stick to when [...]