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ysmarko ysmarko i m mark oestreicher i work at youth specialties a wonderful group of people committed to encouraging and resourcing youth workers i ve been married to jeannie for almost 22 years and have two great kids liesl 13 and max 10 search categories uncategorized youth ministry faith church youth specialties personal thinking blogs books emerging church humor music family tv movies youth work emergent news recent comments allpraisejc the best album of 2007 is do you feel by the rocket summer amazing c brooks bro you have to get the new flame cd hip hop you have to get it miss ya joel as someone who is adopted you have to wonder who is this person who gave birth to me and where is she at terrace crawford sounds like you re eclectic like me isn t it great that we don t have to choose one genre a mykel whooo better to bring this to us then you archives december 2007 november 2007 october 2007 september 2007 august 2007 july 2007 june 2007 may 2007 april 2007 march 2007 february 2007 january 2007 december 2006 november 2006 october 2006 september 2006 august 2006 july 2006 june 2006 may 2006 april 2006 march 2006 february 2006 january 2006 december 2005 november 2005 october 2005 september 2005 august 2005 july 2005 june 2005 may 2005 april 2005 links blogs i read emergent village some books i wrote i grow younger invitation to prayer email subscription enter your email address delivered by surely to be a lifetime channel movie in time for next christmas thursday december 27th 2007 5 00 am filed under news 1 comment ysmarko s best of 2007 music thursday december 27th 2007 5 00 am filed under music this is a series of my subjective best of choices in various categories nothing i suppose could be more subjective than music but here s my favorites of 2007 remedy by david crowder band i sing out loud to this album key word loud my review here surf music unplugged by the duo tones surprise find massively cool acoustic music on two guitars the reminder by fiest haunting beautiful unique flyleaf by flyleaf screamo baby with a chick singer after downloading and getting into this band i found out they re christians the idan raichel project by idan raichel world music to groove by israeli centered but influenced by a dozen other cultures there are tracks on this cd i could put on repeat and listen to all day long my review here once soundtrack by glen hansard and marketa irglova i ve listened to this more in the past month than anything else gorgeous this is school for every songwriter and magic for listeners my review of the movie here elect the dead by serj tankian system of a down singer on his solo project dude seriously works it out head banger of the year for me in search of a unified theory the cobalt season ryan once again takes his craft lyrics melody to a realm of honesty and musical tastiness that should make him the darling of the alterna folk crowd if they could ever find him my review here in rainbows by radiohead what can i say 3 comments ysmarko s best of 2007 books wednesday december 26th 2007 5 00 am filed under books i m going to post a little series of best of 2007 categories they re all merely my opinion of course hopefully i ll have one post per day for 6 or 7 days if i get them done first up my favorite books of 2007 by dave eggers my blog review here amazing fiction non fiction mash up telling the true story of a sudanese lost boy by pete rollins my blog review here one of the most can t put it down books on the emerging church i ve ever read rollins both challenged my thinking and put words to things for me the section showing how his spiritual community has put flesh on these ideas was praxis briliance by tony jones my teaser blog review here it s a bit of a cheat to include this in 2007 since it doesn t release for 2 months still march 2008 but i read it in 2007 compelling helpful articulate creative by yvon chouinard my blog review here one of the two or three best business books i ve ever read one of those books that is good for any leader in any organization including churches to read as the author so clearly and passionately articulates the implications of being truly committed to your mission by sara miles my blog review here best spiritual memoir of the year or probably best spiritual memoir of the last few years trust me on this one read it by will self my blog review here creative challenging sometimes confusing novel cum religio political commentary fascinating on several levels story allegory character apocalyptic vision 4 comments christmas lights easy to put up easy to take down wednesday december 26th 2007 5 00 am filed under humor honestly i m lazy about the christmas lights on my house last year i bought a system that allows me to place these little clips with the string of lights in them onto my eaves using a long pole it takes me about 20 minutes it s just enough to not be scrooge every year my family complains however at least i did more than this but i have to admit i m tempted to modify my lights to this next year 2 comments a christmas note to youth workers tuesday december 25th 2007 5 00 am filed under youth ministry faith youth specialties youth work don t be afraid that s how the christmas story starts in scripture twice in fact first the angel shows up to zechariah telling him about his future son john and says dude chill then the angel shows up to mary and says the same thing well probably not the dude part is it just the being startled by an angel part that precipitated that calming word seems to me it was so much more than that the messenger wasn t only saying hey i realize i m a strange sight and i ve just materialized in front of you in a way that is likely startling the angel was i believe defining a path the angel was speaking words that would need to be remembered over and over as the arrival of the christ child would completely up end the world of those intimately involved in his birth you see it coming right you and i my youth working friend are intimately involved in the arrival of the christ i mean sure we re not physically there but this is our story since we get to be children of god jesus is both our brother and our savior jesus is our story so the don t be afraid should come to us too you might be thinking afraid what do i have to be afraid of well my contention would be that if you don t have a sense of what you should be afraid of you might not be fully living into the upside down kingdom rearranging first shall be last love your neighbor reality of what jesus brought and continues to bring the truth you have plenty to be afraid of but be not afraid this is one of those wonderful and sometimes annoying if we re honest paradoxes the bible leaves us with fear god who loves you unconditionally and tenderly god is all powerful and all loving but seems to regularly not intervene in human suffering we re in this world and are called to engage this world but ultimately we re not of this world the creator of the universe often speaks in a still small voice you have plenty to be afraid of but don t be afraid let s be honest working with teenagers no matter how much you love them and are called to this ministry is cause for fear they re a messy lot the work is never done the needs are never fully met the demands and expectations of youth ministry pull in every direction often in opposition with one another if you live into this calling sooner or later you ll get hurt you ll get ignored you ll be misunderstood you ll be blamed you ll be misrepresented and you ll screw up but be not afraid for unto us a child is born and he will be great and will be called the son of the most high the lord god will give him the throne of his father david and he will reign over the house of jacob forever his kingdom will never end we love you during this busy christmas season in youth ministry we pray that you catch a glimpse of the one the savior god among us emmanuel marko for all of us at youth specialties 5 comments christmas eve travel fun monday december 24th 2007 1 01 pm filed under personal today was the only day i could get four frequent flier seats from san diego to detroit we would normally fly a couple days earlier so we re flying on christmas eve woke up at 4am got to the airport about 5 15 got through security boarded all peachy but as soon as we took off it was obvious something was wrong the plane kept speeding up and slowing down and lots of turning eventually they told us there was a faulty sensor we later found out it s a 1 sensor in the landing gear that just had some water in it and we were going to fly at 8000 feet to los angeles a bit different than our itended chicago layover upon landing in chicago max threw up we re in la now waiting for the part to get replaced we ll miss our connecting flight and upon checking were just told that both of the remaining flights to detroit today are sold out so we re hoping they ll get us on somehow or put us on another airline otherwise we might be waking up christmas morning in an airport hotel which is somehow not quite the same for my kids as waking up at grandma and grandpa s house update made it to chicago united got us rebooked on a late night flight 6 hour layover here in chicago but at least we get to sleep at grandma and grandpa s tonite final update a few days later i forgot to mention that upon our arrival in chicago we got to our gate to find a bus yes a bus blocking it and the bus had a dead battery the pilot said there were 8 guys walking around it trying to figure out what to do about it half hour later we got into our gate then we made stand by on a slightly earlier flight out of chicago which made us extremely happy of course after boarding the plane finding out the plane was missing an emergency kit wasn t as happy making the pilot kept coming on the speaker saying it should be here any minute he got more and more frustrated and started talking about how completely unprofessional this delay was it was actually kind of funny the kit arrived after we d sat on the plane for 45 minutes the final straw was my own fault i suppose though i still have no idea how i did it upon arrival in detroit i took the shuttle to get our rental car while jeannie and the kids waited for our checked luggage when i pulled up to the curb at baggage claim i somehow locked the keys in the car with the car running yup engine running keys inside us standing on the curb with our luggage a policeman told me to move my car and i told him i d locked the keys in it he laughed at me and walked away really eventually a tow truck dude came over and got the door open for us it was a bad day but the next day christmas was perfect 10 comments creative christmas mash up monday december 24th 2007 5 00 am filed under humor music 4 comments jesus junk of the month award nativity edition 20 monday december 24th 2007 5 00 am filed under church humor ok this has to stop it s christmas eve for goodness sake i have to give you and me a day to shake the thought of these things and think about the actual christ child who came to us so one last nativity yes i give you the naked troll doll nativity eesh feh 5 comments frosty sunday december 23rd 2007 5 00 am filed under humor funny ht to mcnair via email 1 comment jesus junk of the month award nativity edition 19 sunday december 23rd 2007 5 00 am filed under church humor what better expresses the spirit of the incarnation than owls i found these at this cavalcade of nativities where the comment was whoooo is the son of god whooooo 3 comments previous mark oestreicher syndicate entries using rss and comments rss this theme contains valid xhtml and css