Author Archives: Joe Ball

Super Bowl Copyright issues

By Joe Ball | Published: January 31, 2012

One of America’s most sacred holidays is fast approaching. The 46th National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl® is less than two weeks away and many churches are preparing for one of their biggest evangelistic opportunities of the year. The Super Bowl® has the largest economic impact of any regular human event with literally every demographic [...]

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How teens communicate

By Joe Ball | Published: January 24, 2012

Been paying attention to the way the teenagers in your life communicate? Besides the parenting implications of turning a blind eye, observing American’s burgeoning adults will help predict their media habits as they grow older—or so says a study this month from Ericsson ConsumerLab. “As they get older, teenagers start to use communication tools in [...]

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2012 a year of Milestones

By Joe Ball | Published: January 10, 2012

50, 70, 21, 30, 1 and 50. No, those aren’t the signals Tim Tebow calls at the line of scrimmage or the combination to the gold vault at Fort Knox. Those numbers represent the milestones that our family will celebrate in 2012. 50-We start the year celebrating 50 years of marriage of Joe and Vicki [...]

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balancing ministry to church kids and kids from the community

By Joe Ball | Published: December 19, 2011

Most of us will at some point face it, what to do when students from the community become part of the youth group.  This can be unsettling to some families in the church. Two of our YMN coaches, Steve Coleman, Youth Minister at Richmond FBC, Richmond KY and Kris Billiter, Minister to youth and families [...]

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Learning “culture”

By Joe Ball | Published: December 15, 2011

This time of year, as we collect the Lottie Moon Christmas offering and participate in the week of prayer for international missions, I always think of our IMB missionaries that are taking the Gospel to the ends of the world. We have good friends that have spent the last twelve years overseas.  They work in [...]

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Grandma, can I eat at the big table this year?

By Joe Ball | Published: November 24, 2011

One of my memories of Thanksgivings is waiting for the day I would finally get to eat at the adult table.  It was a long time in coming, and took a lot longer than I thought it should.  My cousins and I spent years banished to the children’s tables and patiently, well maybe not so [...]

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Time Management-Establishing Priorities

By Joe Ball | Published: November 17, 2011

There are only 24 hours in a day, yet some of us our better managers of our time than others. Two of our YMN coaches, Steve Coleman, Youth Minister at Richmond FBC, Richmond KY and Kris Billiter, Minister to youth and families at Walnut Street Baptist in Louisville, KY are our guest today. The Conversation [...]

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The simplicity of being intergenerational

By Joe Ball | Published: November 9, 2011

A couple of weekends ago I had the privilege of going back to Hopkinsville and officiate Alisha Sargent’s wedding. Alisha is one of our former students and she also served as our ministry intern one summer. It is always an honor to be asked to do these and we love going back to Hopkinsville and [...]

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Helping our students be “on Mission”

By Joe Ball | Published: November 7, 2011

Involving students in missions is vital in the discipleship journey of a student and is a lot more than the once a year mission trip.  Today on the vidcast, two of our regional coaches who are youth ministers from here in Louisville KY, Kris Billiter from Walnut Street  Baptist and Tim Ashley from Beechland Baptist [...]

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Who says teens can’t do the right thing….?

By Joe Ball | Published: November 1, 2011

Originally posted today on  yahoo. Tue Nov 01 10:49am EDT Teen rowers give up medal dreams to help capsized foes By Cameron Smith It’s always said that high school sports are supposed to teach young athletes the value of good sportsmanship. Now we all know that at least two prep rowers from Philadelphia are listening. [...]

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