BOB

I was pondering some of the feedback I got from my sermon yesterday. All in all I felt good about what I tried to convey from the text I preached from, but I wasn’t feeling like I hit the target. What I was amazed about the feedback from both services was that it wasn’t so [...]

How do you veteran preachers do it?

(This John Nash sighting has nothing to do with preaching…it’s one of my favorite Princeton Pics my princeton buddy Jenny took while we were driving in princeton)
As a “new-bee” associate pastor I am grateful that I have gotten to preach in our morning services about every 6-8 weeks. I have known and heard that there [...]

A Home away From Home

Forest Home was one of the many places I was introduced to when we were invited to Hollywood Presbyterian by Mr. Young. My first experience at Forest Home was through one of their kids camps called Indian Village. For several years I would go to “camp” and would eventually work a few summers after graduating [...]

“Follow the yellow line”

Back in 1977 my father was a printer by trade and happened to work for a man by the name of Mr. Young who owned a small print shop on Highland Ave in Hollywood. Mr. Young being the good elder he was (from the church I would call home and still in many ways call [...]

“Tiger shirts, tough skin jeans, and plastic topsiders”

When I was a junior high kid in my church’s youth group I can’t help laugh at my attempts at trying to fit in with the other kids when it came to what an 80’s adolescent boy should and shouldn’t wear. My mom often shopped at the near by Zody’s department store where her “layaway [...]

Experiential Story Telling

After 19 months months of being out of seminary I’m finally catching up on books that I’m finding useful to me and my ministry as a pastor to students and families. This past weekend I got a book called “Experiential Story Telling” by Mark Miller from a youth specialties seminar I went to with some [...]

Why Kasedoggy?

Where did the name revkasedoggy come from? Back when AOL came out with its instant message feature to its internet service there were a few kids in my youth group who called me kasedog! Yo kasedoggy! It fit. I kept it. When I finally passed by the grace of God all of my ordination exams [...]

Once again YS pulls it off…

After all these years, again, Youth Specialties did a great job with its annual youth workers seminar. Myself and 9 others made the track down to Fresno at 5:30am and spent the day hearing again the importance of a relational youth ministry and its benefit to loving kids into the kingdom. The highlight though was [...]

What to write?

Fascinated! I’m blown away by this blog thing. I had no idea on how its changing the way information is being pumped out. I was just a Barnes and Noble and reading a book by Hugh Hewitt. Over 4 million blogs and this could double this year? It indeed is a reformation in the way [...]

So What?

Tonight I spent some time with a few students who were struggling with some real valid questions about who God is? How do you explain God to a bunch of students smarter then you or at least more witty than you? These students are quick on their feet. They can challenge even the best of [...]