Category Archives: Faith Foundations/Bible Study

SMS: Marginalization (part 3)

My Student Ministry Stuff (SMS) blog post is normally a once-a-week post (typically at the beginning of the week), however, last week I was motivated by a post by one of my friends in Colorado.  Jason Lamb is a former … Continue reading

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SMS: Marginalization (part 2)

By way of quick review, a recent post by one of my Dare 2 Share friends, Jason (click here for his post) led me to this three-part series I’m doing on the potential ways to help churches, specifically, help Student … Continue reading

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SMS: Marginalization (part 1)

My friend Jason Lamb recently posted about a trend he sees in the marginalization or prioritization of Youth Ministry in churches (click here for his post). He believes that the grey area between marginalization and making Student Ministry a priority … Continue reading

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600 Club!

Blog post #600! A lot has happened in the last 2 and half years, I am happy to say that a lot of my life (and Youthmark’s life) has been recorded in this online journal format. Just a fun little … Continue reading

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The Same Holy Spirit Today!

Technology today is pretty amazing.  Can you imagine what it would have been like to have had a webcast/podcast of the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2)?  Well, this evening while at Starbucks I decided to log on to the Harvest … Continue reading

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SMS: Help me! I’m busy! (part 1)

A good friend of mine, whom I consider very much “on the ball” as a Youth Pastor recently confessed to me that he’s really struggling with keeping his schedule straight and balanced while still trying to maintain his sanity as … Continue reading

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“All In”

I remember laughing the first time I saw a live Poker Tournament being televised on ESPN.  I mean, c’mon, seriously, who would watch Poker on TV, isn’t that like watching paint-dry, or worse, viewing a bowling match? Well, they had … Continue reading

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The New Look!

Welcome to the new look for brianaaby.com! (still under construction over the weekend) As I stated last week, I am a fan of change, therefore this may happen from time to time.  What does the new look mean?  Well, beside … Continue reading

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Post Alert…

One of the best quotes I’ve read in a long time and one that I will comment on soon… but did want to get it up on my blog ASAP. “Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.” C. … Continue reading

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Timing

The last several weeks have been filled with some very cool “God’s Timing” moments.  Things that happened that it was just so evident that God was orchestrating that exact circumstance for that exact moment.  For instance, I wrote about Brandon … Continue reading

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