Tag: teaching

50 things I look forward to teaching my boys

  1. God is love
  2. Learning to love God and love others is the best thing you can do in this life
  3. Everyone is beautiful
  4. How to treat their mother with respect and love
  5. Life is all about relationships — not the stuff we collect along the way
  6. Learn to forgive — even when others refuse to apologize or forgive you
  7. There’s nothing you can’t tell your mother and I
  8. Your parents will love you no matter what
  9. Family comes first
  10. How to be a gentleman
  11. U2 is the greatest band in the world
  12. You can’t go wrong with The Beatles, Beach Boys, Lenny Kravitz or Johnny Cash
  13. How to build a campfire
  14. How to put a tent together
  15. How to enjoy the freezing waters of Sulphur, Oklahoma
  16. How to blow a bubble
  17. How to blow a bubble with bubble gum
  18. How to throw a football
  19. How to throw a baseball
  20. How to dribble a soccer ball
  21. How to catch a football
  22. How to catch a baseball
  23. How to throw a frisbee
  24. How to catch a frisbee
  25. How to play disc golf
  26. The difference between a goal, a touchdown and a home run
  27. How to fish
  28. How to clean a fish (I may need to learn this myself first)
  29. How to grill the perfect steak
  30. How to grill the perfect burger
  31. How to play the guitar
  32. How to tie their shoes
  33. How to change the oil in a car
  34. How to change a tire
  35. How to drive a car — but only after you turn 21
  36. How to (properly) shoot fireworks
  37. How to ride a bike
  38. How to ride a bike without training wheels
  39. How to pop a wheelie
  40. How to draw
  41. How to cut with scissors
  42. How to imagine
  43. How to shave
  44. How to avoid shaving as much as possible
  45. How to “skin the cat”
  46. How to enjoy good art
  47. How to eat sushi
  48. How to pack for vacation using only carry-on luggage
  49. No one knows everything — not even your parents
  50. Be leery of those who claim they do

Engaging your audience

As part of our community 2.0 ministry at encounter, we recently purchased copies of Andy Stanley’s book, “Communicating for a Change.” Loved the book. It really challenged me and the ways I’ve always been taught to communicate with folks (hense my Mass Communications major).

Rather then outlining a message or lesson with 3 points, each having 3 or 4 sub-points, Stanley suggests outlining your message with only one central point. And building the message around Me-We-God-You-We. I’ll let you start reading it to find out more ;-). Like I said – it’s challenged me for sure.

I’ve tried to share some of the e-mails I send to our leaders from time to time (where appropriate) and thought this was one of those times…
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New leadership podcast

Just found the Threadsmedia Leadership Podcast from Lifeway.
Very good stuff.

Training Tip 5 talks about teaching people with various learning styles. This is a great listen for anyone who leads anyone anywhere.

“Engage every learning style… Engage as many learning styles as possible.”

Some may learn better by listening and taking notes, others may do better with music, others may do better making art or doing something with their hands. I’m sure my mom could give some great examples of this.

“Culture never informs Scripture but Scripture informs culture.”

“The type of question you ask in your small group could engage learning styles or disengage learning styles.”

What if you walked in to small group and a pile of pipe cleaners were lying in front of you and the leader said, “The one thing I need from God this week is… Answer it with a pipe cleaner.”

What if we thought about our small groups/church like the game Cranium? Engage the whole brain.

“A small group leader who understands the concepts behind Cranium, that’s a great small group leader.”