This is Tim Olson's blog - to write about my personal life, my spiritual life, to help people think, to write about youth group, to write about Church - just a journal. Hopefully friends will be able to keep up with me and my life a bit better this way - and I'd love a comment now and then. Soli Deo Gloria.
I'm tired and poor and can take no more. Actually, it's been a pretty good day. I don't see huge amounts of stuff that I've accomplished, but I've made progress and also been able to interact with people.
posted by Tim @ 3:51 PM
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I was born in 1973 in Zaire, Africa. My parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents on my mom’s side were all missionaries with the Evangelical Free Church in Zaire. I graduated from boarding school in Zaire (Ubangi Academy) in 1991 and went to Moody Bible Institute. I spent my summers working at Hidden Acres, the Evangelical Free Church camp in Iowa and it was there I met my lovely and gracious wife, Lori (though we didn’t fall in love there). I received a B.A. in Youth Ministry from Moody and spent over 5 years in an Independent Baptist Church in rural Michigan. I left there at God’s call in 2002 to serve at Grace Evangelical Free Church in Eagle Grove, Iowa, as the Youth Pastor. I have an incredible son, Benjamin, and a beautiful daughter, Elise. My wife is a huge part of our ministry with the youth. I am currently pursuing (slowly) a Master of Arts and Religion from Reformed Theological Seminary through their virtual campus (distance education). My passions are for the glory of God, my family, guitar, volleyball, sports in general, and students. Though the future is unclear, I believe God has called me to “full-time” ministry.
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First off, great preachers are creative geniuses. If you want to grow as a preacher, fiction may be a good place to start. I love Harry Potter, books by Chaim Potok, and C.S. Lewis is always a good fall back.
If however, you don't feel like fiction just yet. 12 Steps for the Recovering Pharisee (like me) by John Fischer is great. Also, any thing by N.T. Wright will get you thinking. Evidence Not Yet Seen by Darlene Deibler Rose is a fantastic missionary biography. And if you are up for more postmodern stuff, the Post-Evangelical by Dave Tomlinson (the NOrth American version) would also be enjoyable to read.
Books by Ted Dekker Rock
Fiction
very exciting and will make you think
Tired but not poor. You have given much and you have much.
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