Chris Bishop

I am not the best rule follower but I have been thinking about the way that we make unwritten rules and rubrics that we compare our ministries to.  I know that I have a habit of doing this and when I do, I feel like my ministry doesn’t stack up very well.  But, I shouldn’t be surprised by this.  My ministry is not playing [...]

I came across a resource the other day that is really great. If you have ever been to a conference and wanted to go to all of the sessions and workshops but couldn’t you know hard it is to choose which one to go to and which to miss out on.  Or even worse you [...]

When I watch TV (and it isn’t Disney Channel) I like light hearted comedy.  One of the the very few shows I look forward to watching now is Parks and Recreation.  It has a draw that I can’t explain and every season has gotten better I think.  The most recent episode was centered around a harvest festival [...]

  Today (Friday) I have spent mostly outside cleaning up leaves, planting some new flowers, puttin down some grass seed, and hangin out with the fam. It has been great. Both Katie and I are really swomped at work during this season and we haven’t had a chance to have a day like this in [...]

There was a study that came across my email inbox at the beginning of the month.  In it there was an attachment that outlined a new batch of research that had been done about my denomination.  The findings aside, this slide popped out at me.  I think it was because I was doing some reading [...]

This is the last installment of the series that I am doing on getting the message across to students.  We have taken a look at atmosphere, games, music and other elements that are not the main message but support or detract from the theme of the evening. Today we are going to talk about the message [...]

Like the games, music and lyrical theology will speak volumes to the students.  This past week I have broken out my Metallica, Deftones, Red Hot Chili Peppers and other hard rock cds because I got a hankering from a youth ministry podcast that has had Metallica playing for the past couple of weeks as their [...]