So there is this blog that I follow called Stuff Christians Like. This blog is pretty entertaining if you understand sarcasm at all. Anyways I watched a video that he has on the site and thought it was pretty good. I got a lot out of it and there were a bunch of little parts that were applicable to what I will be teaching on in the next few months. Hope you like it.
Jon Acuff at Crosspoint
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Where do I belong
Tonight at North Heights, we are coming together to pray for the church. We being any age. This is not set to be a thing for Junior High only, or for High School only, or for the adult generation only. It is a thing for any age. This is hopefully going to be the start of something new. Something new to North Heights. I am praying that this is the start of a true cross-generational sense of worship. I am praying that this is something that we can just drop our expectations off at the door and worship, pray, and do ministry together.
My time lately has not been to busy. Work has been relatively slow with Christmas coming and Wednesdays being shut down for a couple weeks. I have been able to spend a lot more time thinking about where I am at in the big picture. I am trying to figure out where I, Josh Miller, belong in the big scheme of things pertaining to NH. Where does the JH ministry fall into the big picture? What can I do to equip the JH students to take on a new role and a new experience in the church? Where do I fit having a new set of eyes looking in on the church?
I think this is the biggest mystery to me. This last thought. I am very new to this church. I get the sense that most people that are at the church now have either grown up here or been here for a long time. I have been told by a few people to be bold in the things I say and to look at what is going on in NH with a critical view. Not to tear down the church but to ask why. Why are we doing things the way we are? Why is this service still happening? Why is this ministry still taking place?
This is where I find myself. I find myself trying to figure out where I belong in the big scheme of things. I find myself going to God with this. I am asking Him instead of just letting these questions in my head and letting them stay there. I am figuring out to bring these questions to God. Even though I have not really gotten an answer it is much more comforting to raise them up than to just sit on them and let them dwell in my head.
My time lately has not been to busy. Work has been relatively slow with Christmas coming and Wednesdays being shut down for a couple weeks. I have been able to spend a lot more time thinking about where I am at in the big picture. I am trying to figure out where I, Josh Miller, belong in the big scheme of things pertaining to NH. Where does the JH ministry fall into the big picture? What can I do to equip the JH students to take on a new role and a new experience in the church? Where do I fit having a new set of eyes looking in on the church?
I think this is the biggest mystery to me. This last thought. I am very new to this church. I get the sense that most people that are at the church now have either grown up here or been here for a long time. I have been told by a few people to be bold in the things I say and to look at what is going on in NH with a critical view. Not to tear down the church but to ask why. Why are we doing things the way we are? Why is this service still happening? Why is this ministry still taking place?
This is where I find myself. I find myself trying to figure out where I belong in the big scheme of things. I find myself going to God with this. I am asking Him instead of just letting these questions in my head and letting them stay there. I am figuring out to bring these questions to God. Even though I have not really gotten an answer it is much more comforting to raise them up than to just sit on them and let them dwell in my head.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thought vomit
Hello first time visitors. My name is Josh Miller and I am here to share with you throughout this journey. What exactly is this journey you are asking, well I am not quite sure either. I have been reading a few peoples blogs lately and have decided to start my own.
Blogs have always been something that has kind of intrigued me. I never thought I had enough interesting "stuff" to write about but here goes nothing...
I recently (August 26) started working at a church as the Junior High Ministry Coordinator. I am 23 and graduated from college last May. You could say I am fresh. As I have been working here there have been a lot of new ideas that I have come across, the working Holy Spirit, the interworkings of a church, being inside a Lutheran church, along with a few more that are not to be named. I think a lot of what will be written about is going to be based on things of that nature. Me processing those ideas, trying to figure out where I belong in the scheme of things as this church figures out where it is heading.
As I sit back and read what I have written I realize it is not thought out very well, it is thrown together, and kind of random. Hence the title. Hopefully my writing skills will be honed as this blog finds its identity.
Josh
Blogs have always been something that has kind of intrigued me. I never thought I had enough interesting "stuff" to write about but here goes nothing...
I recently (August 26) started working at a church as the Junior High Ministry Coordinator. I am 23 and graduated from college last May. You could say I am fresh. As I have been working here there have been a lot of new ideas that I have come across, the working Holy Spirit, the interworkings of a church, being inside a Lutheran church, along with a few more that are not to be named. I think a lot of what will be written about is going to be based on things of that nature. Me processing those ideas, trying to figure out where I belong in the scheme of things as this church figures out where it is heading.
As I sit back and read what I have written I realize it is not thought out very well, it is thrown together, and kind of random. Hence the title. Hopefully my writing skills will be honed as this blog finds its identity.
Josh
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