From Sampler to Sower

My friend and colleague, Todd Owens, recently had an interesting idea on his blog: set your iPod to random shuffle and list the first 15 songs that play.  Seemed like an interesting way to get a look into one’s musical tastes.  Of course, I put everything and anything on my 160GB iPod classic.  And given the fact that our youth ministry subscribes to YLO: the works from Interlinc, everything and anything ends up being a lot of things, many of which have nothing to do with my personal tastes.  (If they did, I can guarantee there wouldn’t be any KJ-52 albums on there.)  So I tweaked the challenge a little.  Here’s a random shuffle of the 197 songs in my “My Top Rated” playlist: (more…)

I suppose you may be wondering why I chose to call this blog “Sampler to Sower”.  And a smart alec would probably tell you, “Because ‘pastorbuhro.com’ sounded way too boring.”  But since everyone knows I’m no smart alec, here’s the real scoop:

My philosophy of ministry states “I minister in order to help teens on the journey of eight steps, from sampler to sower.”  As the blog grows, I’ll write more about this journey, because it lies at the heart of everything I do as a youth pastor.  But here’s the short and the sweet: (more…)