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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
| In This Issue |
- Featured: The Journal Gives Jonathan’s Getting Students to Show Up Two Thumbs Up
- Something You Can Use This Week: Horton Hears a Who! Movie Clip Discussion Idea With an Online Clip
- What’s New: Podcast #14– Jonathan Shares the SEVEN SINS OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND OUR YOUTH CULTURE
- Movie Review: The New Movie Expelled Blows the Horn on Suppression
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| Featured: The Journal Gives Jonathan’s Getting Students to Show Up Two Thumbs Up |
Book Review: Getting Students to Show Up
By Matthew McNutt
McKee writes with the confidence of someone who has spent years working to design and implement weekly and large events that successfully target and draw the intended audience, and faithfully follow through with the planned purpose. He takes the reader through all of the steps-identifying the purpose of the event, the planning process and agenda, bringing it all together-and even gives some great ideas for events that work. This book has helped to bring focus and direction to my event planning already. It’s an excellent tool for showing the reader how to make their event ideas a reality.
Jonathan McKee is president of The Source for Youth Ministry and author of numerous youth ministry books like “Do They Run When They See You Coming?” and “Getting Students to Show Up.” Jonathan studies youth culture and trends, speaking and training across the country and providing free online resources, training, & ideas for youth workers at www.TheSource4YM.com| Something You Can Use This Week: Horton Hears a Who! Movie Clip Discussion Idea With an Online Clip |
Teenagers have been loving Horton Hears a Who! in the theatres. And thanks to Wingclips.com, we have a downloadable clip to combine with our discussion guide to talk about what it means to follow God 100%. (Wingclips offers a free version of all their clips, or a high res. version with a premium subscription)
Main Point of Discussion: We are called to be faithful 100%.
The Movie Clip: “I meant what I said, and I said what I meant, and an elephant’s faithful one hundred percent.”
Horton Hears a Who! is a fantastic adaptation of the Dr. Suess’ classic children’s book. With some of the best voice talent in Hollywood and amazing animation, the makers of this movie stay true to the book’s theme of “character and integrity” throughout the film.
The clip we are using today features a great scene between Horton and Morton. Horton has been taking care of the tiny speck of dust resting on a clover for some time now and all the kids in the Jungle of Nool are impressed. Kangaroo has had just about enough of Horton’s nonsense and plans on ending the charade.
Introducing the Clip:
Today I want to show you a clip from the movie “Horton Hears a Who!” Many of you have already seen this movie, but for those who haven’t, this scene begins with Morton telling Horton that Kangaroo is very upset with him and has gone to Vlad to take care of Horton.
Let’s take a look at this scene.
CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THIS DISCUSSION INCLUDING SMALL GROUP QUESTIONS, SCRIPTURE AND A WRAP UP
| What’s New: Podcast #14– Jonathan Shares the SEVEN SINS OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND OUR YOUTH CULTURE |
THE SOURCE4YM PODCAST, EPISODE #14
JONATHAN: Sin #3. This sin is when you immerse yourself in today’s culture-when you absolutely submerge yourself.
I always tell people, “I think you should understand it… dabble to understand, but don’t immerse yourself in it.” …I mean, I teach this to my kids: this stuff affects us!
Guess what? It affects us as adults too. And if we immerse ourselves in this stuff, and we’re like, “Yeah! I just gotta stay current with youth culture. That’s why I watch MTV for two hours a day! Hey wait! ?Tila Tequila’ is on! I can’t miss that!”
FURBY: Ha ha. “I just gotta know my kids.”
JONATHAN: Yeah! I just gotta know my kids…
But the fact is, there’s a lot of us that… use it as an excuse, to allow some of this stuff into our life.
FURBY: Totally.
JONATHAN: I’m just saying, that’s a sin. We cannot allow this stuff into our lives… I’ll just be honest. In a society where addiction to pornography is a reality, and stuff like that, I don’t go on MySpace unless my wife is in the room. And my wife and I work in the same office, we got chairs across from each other, and I’m like, “Hey, Lori! I’m gonna get on MySpace.” Because you know why? You know that you can’t browse MySpace for 3 minutes without seein’ a girl in a thong…
We need to be careful and guard ourselves if we’re gonna do some research on some of this stuff, fine. We can do the research, but don’t immerse ourselves in this stuff.
We just mentioned A Lil Bit Podcast example of Josiah in Second Chronicles. Josiah, when he heard the truth of the Word, he not only tore his clothes, but he went around and he started just emptying stuff out of the Temple. And some of us as youth workers need to kinda clear out our CD cases in our cars and stuff like that….
FURBY: The thing is, we need to become, we need to be students of the culture and we want to know the students but we don’t want to become the consumers of this culture.
JONATHAN: Yeah. Supporting it-that’s even a different thing.
FURBY: Yeah, I mean it’s just… we have to go in with a guarded heart. I mean Proverbs says, “Our heart is the wellspring of our life.” And if we don’t guard our heart, if we don’t take very cautious actions when we are listening to the lyrics or looking at the whatevers on the Internet. We just have to be so careful that we don’t become what we are trying to keep our kids from…
Episode Highlights:
- Jonathan shares the SEVEN SINS OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND OUR YOUTH CULTURE
- In the Youth Culture Window section, they discuss the number one new show of audiences age 18-49… A MOMENT OF TRUTH
- Jonathan gives you the opportunity to jump… or dump!
- Furby talks about an “unofficial” Bible Study that has emerged in his ministry that the students requested and has both junior high and high school students in attendance.
- In the HELP ME section Jonathan and Furb answer some questions asked by all of you.
- Furby confesses his deep dark desire to trip irritating kids when they walk by.
- Furby shares about his ministry’s Relationships Retreat, a weekend where they talk with junior high students about their decisions when it comes to relationships and sex.
- Jonathan asks you all for comments in his blog this week to share about resources you have used to talk with kids about sex.
| Movie Review: The New Movie Expelled Blows the Horn on Suppression |
For the last few weeks we’ve been sharing with you about a resource to talk with our kids about life’s origin, Ben Stein’s new movie, Expelled. Last week we provided you with a discussion using a downloadable clip from the film. This week we wanted to let you know what we thought of the film.
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
(4/18/2008)
Rated PG
Rating: Theatre Worthy
Reviewed by Lane Palmer
“Bueller?… Bueller?… Bueller?”
Who can forget Ben Stein as the Economics teacher in Ferris Beuller’s Day Off? Anyone?…Anyone?
Now 22 years later Ben Stein is back and he’s baaaaad to the bone. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a documentary that accomplishes its stated goal- to ?blow the horn on suppression.’
I know what you’re thinking. Monotone Stein + Documentary + Science stuff = BORING!
And you would be thinking the same thing I did. But nothing could be further from the truth. Premise Media does a stand up job of focusing on compelling sound bytes, intertwining entertaining clips from other films, and showing Stein at his dry and wry best…
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Jonathan McKee
Jonathan McKee is the author of over twenty books including the brand new The Guy's Guide to FOUR BATTLES Every Young Man Must Face; The Teen’s Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices; If I Had a Parenting Do Over; and the Amazon Best Seller - The Guy's Guide to God, Girls and the Phone in Your Pocket. He speaks to parents and leaders worldwide, all while providing free resources for youth workers on TheSource4YM.com. Jonathan, his wife Lori, and their three kids live in California.