Yes, I have spent every Christmas with my family ever since I was born, even the year I had appendicitis. However, this year, I will have 2 homes to be at. For the first year of my life, I have more than just my family. Yvette and I will soon be flying back to see our families for the first (significant) time since our wedding in January. Our goal is to split the time evenly between both sides, which will involve about a 5-6 hour drive. Please pray for our trip, as we will spend many miles in the air and on the road. And if any of you would like to see us while we are back, be sure to comment on here, call us, or something. We’d love to see as many of you as possible.
Unless I don’t write again before Christmas, have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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Well, it’s a snow-day here in NH. I guess God decided I needed to stay home for my birthday. Anyhow, I wanted to bless you all with some comic strips I got in a recent email. They are from Reverend Fun, a Christian comic strip pops up in Christian magazines, but you can also find them online at reverendfun.com. (You can click them to view full-size.)
Do you ever have one of those days when you want to write, but you have no idea what to say? I’m assuming for those of you who do not blog or journal in any way, you probably do not feel like that. Nonetheless, today is one of those days.
Nothing too exciting is going on in my personal life. Yvette and I are doing well. She’s looking for a job again. I’m busy with ministry. I’ve also been having fun doing the video game thing on the side, as I blog for an independent Nintendo site. One of the best things about that is that I’ve been getting early review copies of games for Wii and DS.
As for the church, we’ve been doing A TON of renovating over the past 2 weeks in order to make more room. In the end, we are going to double our seating capacity and add an extra classroom in our current space. All of this is in effort to meet more people for Christ, and we will eventually get to the point where we can build our first building on our land. Visit Rockingham Christian Church on Facebook for up-to-date photos on the renovation project.
I’d love to hear from you all, so please leave a comment on my blog or facebook, send me an email, give me a call, or something. It is tough to keep in touch as much as I would like to. Hopefully, this blog/website will continue to help you know what is going on in my life, even if I cannot call each of you individually.
For everyone else who visits my site for youth ministry resources and such… I hope the little that I’ve shared has helped. And if I can help in any other way, please let me know!
And for those of you wanting more updates than my blog posts provide, follow me on Twitter (@stevecullum). Those updates are also on the side-bar of this site.
Yvette and I have had this thing about finding videos of animals sneezing lately, and we wanted to share our findings with you. In our opinion, these are awesome, and they make us laugh no matter how many times we see them. Check out the panda, baby elephant, and bunny below.
I decided, after reading a blog post on ChurchMarketingSucks.com (It’s actually not a bad site) about making sure we tell true stories about God in order to get our point across — we don’t have to make them up or fabricate them. While I totally agree with the point of the article, I couldn’t help notice the two negative examples they used were used for a “Put Religion Back in School” campaign. After some thought, I began typing… Here’s my response. I’d love to know what you think.
I wonder if we should be putting “religion” back in schools. I personally do not believe Christianity is a religion, as it is more of a lifestyle change…a relationship in fact. Many people believe that we should put Christ back into the school system. Honestly, when did He leave? I believe my Lord has been there all along. Maybe He has not been as active as we would have liked at times, but He is there. He is there when a group of students pray around the flagpole before school. He is there when a child reaches out to another who is always made fun of. He is there when a science teacher decides to not teach about evolution as a fact, but instead one of the many theories. He is there when students decide to perform a Christian song in their talent show. He is there when a student prays before his/her test, hoping he/she will do well. He is there when another student prays for a friend, and then finds one in sometimes unexpected places. Are you really willing to say that God and Christ are not in our schools? I beg to differ. I think what many people want is it to be taught again. Truthfully, I’m not sure I want a non-Christian teaching my child about the Bible or God. There is no possible way that schools will start hiring only Christians, as that is discrimination. So, instead of allowing so-called “religion” back into schools, I say that we need to embrace the fact that God NEVER left the schools… We just chose to start ignoring Him.
Over the past year, I’ve had several students of mine ask for devotional suggestions — books they can use to help them get into reading the Bible on a regular basis. I decided to put together a list of popular and useful devotionals. This list is in no way complete, because there are literally hundreds of options out there. However, hopefully this will help you or your students choose something to fit their preference.
At RCC, we’ve been going through a series entitled “WHY?” We’ve been asking questions about God, Jesus, the Bible, science, and problems. It’s been a great series, and it ends this Sunday. Our lead minister, Tom Gerdts, has been answering additional Why Questions from the people of RCC on the RCC Staff Blog. I’d like to encourage you to check it out by clicking here.
So, I think it time for a new banner for my website/blog. And instead of me putting effort into making it, and hoping others like it, I have decided to make a contest out of this. If you have fun with these sort of things (i.e. graphic design, photo editing, etc.), then take your best shot at making a new banner for my website. As of right now, I plan on sticking with the same theme as I have, so please take those dimensions into consideration when developing your banner (it will not re-size). As of now, we’ll say the deadline will be Oct. 9 (my dad’s birthday). So you have just over a week. As for prizes, sure I don’t have much to give you, but your work will be featured on my website for quite a long time, so that’s cool, right? Ok, everyone…GO!
Remember when I posted that video about Parkour last year? Well, as I was watching the season premiere of The Office last night, they were doing it. It was hilarious, so I had to share it with you. Check it out below.
My wife and I took a trip down to Providence this past Saturday. While down there, we were able to witness an event called “Water Fire.” Basically, there were several fires ablaze in the river (around the Providence Place Mall) while music played in the background, some even live. Check out the video I took with my cell phone. I apologize for the bad sound quality. I’ve also posted a couple photos below the video.
