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So good to have dinner with my friend Mark Ordus (who also happens to be the youth pastor at the church I grew up in in Detroit, and is a Youth Cartel coach).
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new episode of 5 Minutes with Marko is out. it's week 2 of a 2-parter on some unique aspects of the Bible we sometimes miss in youth min: open.spotify.com/episode/4Gi…
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Started a 2-week mini-series on my podcast about the Bible this week. This week's focus is on how the mystery of the Bible isn't a bug, but a feature: open.spotify.com/episode/7j7…
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9 hours sitting at O’Hare today, with delay after delay (mainly due to high winds in San Diego; but it also seemed to be a cavalcade of chaos, with four different planes assigned to our flight at one point or another). Taxiing out now. Relieved and brain dead.
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Later update: 90 minutes of insanity at the LAX car rental center resulted in me not getting a car. Currently in an uber that will get to my house at 4:37am, a mere 18 hours after I left for the airport in Chicago.
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Update: we landed at 1am…in Los Angeles (not San Diego).
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Prepackaged humans available in the United Club, in addition to snacks.
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6th and final part of my 6-part podcast series on teenage brains. some of you have heard me teach on the Anterior Cingulate before -- that's what this episode is about: open.spotify.com/episode/2dl…
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forgot that, while in Italy, I had a podcast ep drop. part 5 of the 6-parter on teenage brains -- this week on stewarding the hard-wiring that takes place in the young to mid-teen years: open.spotify.com/episode/5GO…
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Part 4 of our 6-part podcast series on teenage brains. This week looks at the two parts of the brain that are significantly underdeveloped in teens (NOT an indication of brokenness, btw): open.spotify.com/episode/6nN…
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Boston, nice to see with you for about 20 hours (including sleep time!). Now to get home so I can pack for our trip to Italy!!!
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Was driving through the chick-fil-a drive thru on my way to small groups tonight and realized I hadn’t bought a snack. So I got 90 nuggets. Brought nugs for the nugs.
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Teenage brain development in six 5-minute episodes! here's week 3, where I talk about the five areas of change teenagers are experiencing: open.spotify.com/episode/1c4…
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Just finished watching the Lions game. Whew, gonna have to be intentional about bringing my blood pressure down before my doc appointment midweek.
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oh, right -- i had a podcast episode go live a couple days ago. this episode is the 2nd in a 6-part series on adolescent brain development. this week: the amazing and glorious and messy onset of abstract thinking... open.spotify.com/episode/09U…
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Preached at my church this past weekend on "Churching" (church as a verb). Sermon starts just after the 33-minute mark: youtube.com/live/e8_e8TTM9HQ…
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Happy September, and welcome back to a new season of 5 Minutes with Marko. This week I started a 6-part series on a topic I get asked to speak on all the time: teenage brain development. open.spotify.com/episode/4wR…
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I’m mostly glad to have had a couple great days in Chicago with the GLS NextGen cohort of youth workers. But I’m also glad to be flying home with no travel for 2.5 weeks.
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got to do a workshop today at the Young Life Southwestern Division staff launch (local, so that was easy!). the workshop next door to mine was with my dear friend Crystal Kirgiss (who I didn't know was in town). Sad I didn't get a pic; but we were both heading into our workshops!
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Sad that my trip to Colombia this next weekend was cancelled, and praying for all those impacted by the earthquake there.
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