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Josh GriffinMore Posts MoreThanDodgeball’s Year in Review: Top Pages and Tags of 2011

I don’t have too many static pages on the site, but here are the Top 3 most popular pages on MoreThanDodgeball.com

The 4th most popular is the Contact Page – if you ever need to get a hold of me that’s where you can find me. And here are the most popular tags from this year as well – tags will pull up all of the blog posts around that subject:

JG

Add Comment December 30, 2011

Josh GriffinMore Posts Christmas Shoeboxes Packing Recap Video

Here’s a video recap of the first week from our Do Something series. Packing Christmas shoe boxes for needy kids in our area.

JG

Add Comment November 28, 2011

Josh GriffinMore Posts Teaching Junior Highers About Sex

Kurt just posted the 3-week series arc for their series about sex in our Wildside (junior high) ministry the past month. Worth checking out for inspiration for your own series, and be sure to head over there to check out some other insights about teaching about sex/relationships to junior highers, too.

Week 1: Developing Healthy Friendships With Each Other. We simply took a look at some of the differences between guys and girls, and how an understanding of some of these differences can help us be better friends with each other.

Week 2: Dating: We took a look at what begins to happen when a friendship becomes more than just a friendship. We addressed such questions as: When is it okay to start dating? Who should I date? How should I date? What role do should my parents play in all of this?

Week 3: Sex This weekend, we will wrap the series up by talking about sex. I feel a little overwhelmed because ONE lesson on sex isn’t enough. I am afraid I will try to cram too much into the lesson, thus making it too complex, and more confusing than helpful.

JG

1 View Comments November 16, 2011

Josh GriffinMore Posts 40 Sermon and Series Ideas from Creating a Series from Scratch Workshop

Really enjoyed teaching at YS’ NYWC this past week. During my Grande Seminar called Creating a Series from Scratch, the group come up with a great list of sermon topics and series ideas. Thought it might benefit you or inspire you to come up with something great, too!

Superheroes
In-n-out (of church)
Live love. Live loved
LinkedIn: Get connected
Stressed Out
Church History 101
I (Heart)
I hurt
How I Met Your Mother
Social Injustice
Lair, Lunatic, or lord?
Personalities of the disciples
Trinity
Old Fashioned (manners, tradition, etc)
What’s Next? (heaven, hell, etc)
Amazing Grace
ZERO to HERO
The Loser Club
Epic Fail
Steadfast
Family Feud
Survivor (dealing with teenage problems)
More Than a Song (studying the lyrics and background)
Cults
Explaining Christian symbols
What’s He like?
God is…
“Christianeze” – understanding church lingo
Scary Stories of the Bible
Zombies Apocalypse
The Other 6
Speedbump: Walls, Hurdles and Roadblocks
When Life Knocks You Down
Heroine of Bible
Fearless
Discovering your gifts
Church for dummies
Spiritual disciplines
Share your faith
Who’s your neighbor?

JG

3 View Comments October 7, 2011

Josh GriffinMore Posts Secrets Series Coming This Fall to HSM

In a few days we kickoff the new school year with a new weekend teaching series called Secrets. This past weekend we asked students to anonymously share their secrets on a card we provided. No names, no rules, just secrets. And a promise that we would address the topic full on the next couple of weeks. Some incredible things were shared … some pretty serious themes started to emerge, thought I would share them here:

Many teens aren’t virgins, but everyone including their parents thinks they are
Porn, sex, masturbation easily ranks as the number one set of issues
Self-worth, image, identity and values are probably the second most popular secret/struggle
Our students look good on the outside, but have all sorts of secrets just under the surface

More on this as we get into the series for sure … we may have just discovered the plan for the whole teaching calendar in this stack of paper.

JG

1 View Comments September 15, 2011

Josh GriffinMore Posts LiveSTRONG Series Video

Here’s the series bumper video made for this summer’s LiveSTRONG series from the book of Philippians.

JG

Add Comment August 10, 2011

Josh GriffinMore Posts LiveSTRONG Series Arc

We just started a new summer series this past weekend in HSM – a 4-week study of the book of Philippians called LiveSTRONG. Here’s a quick overview of the arc for the teaching series:

WK 1: To live strong is to serve Christ. To die is gain. Philippians 1:19-26

WK 2: To live strong is to do right and stand firm in a wicked world. Philippians 2:14,15

WK 3: To live strong is focusing on the future and running the race. Philippians 3:12-16

WK 4: To live strong is being content, depending on God’s power. Philippians 4:11-13

JG

3 View Comments July 26, 2011

Josh GriffinMore Posts HSM Weekend in Review: Volume 147

Weekend Teaching Series: 11 vs. the World (week 3 of 3)
Sermon in a Sentence: Be salt, be light, and take communion to remind ourselves of the great gift of God and eternal life through Him.
Service Length: 72 minutes

Understandable Message:The message this weekend centered around 2 specific stories of Jesus and the disciples. For the end of the series and the weekend coming right out of summer camp I wanted to challenge students to take their experience, commitments and life change back home and to their families, friends and the world. I first taught Matthew 5′s challenge to be salt and light, with a candle illustration that went through a section of the crowd. Then we transitioned to the story of the Last Supper and talked through communion and how it was a reminder to the disciples for the rest of their lives of what Jesus did and a re-commitment to His challenge to share the Good News.

Element of Fun/Positive Environment: This weekend coming off of camp is an important one! We played the HSM Summer Camp highlight video, had great music inclding a STOMP-style version of the song “Go” and a simple message with a couple of interactive live elements. Solid finish to camp and the launch of summer events.

Music Playlist: Go, Divine and Holy, One Thing Remains, Your Love is Enough, With Everything

Favorite Moment: After the 6:30pm Saturday service we invited up all of our students and leaders attending the Costa Rica mission trips, the first of which leaves in 10 days. They are awesome students and I’m so proud of them! They were a great living example of sharing God’s light all over the world and it was super cool to pray with and for them.

Up Next: Philippians (series premiere, week 1 of 4)