Part 3 of the series... see the end of the article for links to the other installments.

Tuesday

I've been extremely fortunate in my programs that none of them (at least in my mind) have completely failed to come together. Though, there was the program in 2007 where we put out the idea of the properity gospel for folks to discuss and the campers thought we were advocating for it. Sometimes you have this idea that seems great in your own head, but others don't perceive it as such.

Tuesday night's program was only going to work if the campers took it seriously. We let them drive the direction of it. It was only going to be as deep as they were.

Since the theme was Faith Alive, I naturally, wanted to deal with doubt. Camp is a safe place to ask questions. I had this idea of addressing controversial questions that was inspired by a Rob Bell sermon about the Parable of the Wicked Servant.

I was tempted to blog about Rob Bell, since most people know that I'm a fan of his, but there wasn't a lot to add to the conversation that hasn't been said over and over again in the blogosphere and on Twitter. 

Instead, I was inspired by a couple of comments from friends about the furor, and I felt that the best way for me to comment is to talk about how my journey of faith has changed over the last 10 years.

I recently came across a thread on a friend's Facebook profile discussing the price of gas. The usual reasons were offered up, we don't drill, the Middle East is getting rich off of us. 

I am shaking my head in disbelief, though I don't know why. There were plenty of dirty tricks during the campaign leading up to the 2008 election. Cutting his audio so that he couldn't hear questions, to make him look feeble (look for more of that). Preventing supporters from attending debates, and more.

Part 2 of the series... see the end of the article for links to the other installments.

Monday

As I said in part 1. One of my goals was to given the campers an overview of just what to have faith in. I handled that via Monday's program. It was a bit ambitious: Let's cover the whole story of the Bible in one program.

I was really excited about this one. There were a lot of moving pieces to it, video clips, re-enactments by campers, lighting, music. Below is just an overview of it. There were atmospheric videos while I was speaking and music to go along with it. 

The key idea was what I was talking about in the previous entry in my intro. What is the story God is trying to tell?