The same is true for blogging pastors and ministry leaders. As a means to connect with people and convey spiritual truth, a blog can replace a stagnant ministry Web site or traditional print newsletter. Though blogs are often treated like a diary, they can also serve as community forums or news portals for updates on the happenings within your organization. Along with text, blogs can include photos and video segments. Some ministries post to a blog once or twice a week, others daily or hourly. There's even a new method on Twitter.com where you can post every minute of the day!

Children love to experiment and invent. Science camps capitalize on their natural curiosity. When you have captured a child’s attention, spiritual truths can be taught by using science experiments as object lessons.

Shooting off rockets in a Space Camp, for example, starts a discussion about hitting the “target” of correct conduct for Christ. Dissecting a shark in a Creation Camp embeds in a child’s mind the day God created sea creatures. The spiritual lessons leave a lasting impression in a child’s heart and mind.

My own marriage at one time hung together only by the fearful thread of believing God's words through the prophet Malachi, " 'I hate divorce' " (Mal. 2:16, NIV). My wife, Judi, and I decided that the last person in the universe we wanted to displease was the One who had created us and made us one.

I believe the church has a moral obligation to stop it by training parents to be the primary sex educators of their children. Historically, the church is responsible for imposing much, if not most, of the shame and embarrassment attached to our sexuality that makes it so difficult for us to talk about it. So it is time that we own this regrettable fact, and take the initiative in helping parents teach their children how to be good and responsible stewards of their sexuality.

When I think of innovation, my mind immediately jumps to products or services—the telephone, the assembly line, solar panels, airplanes, wireless Internet, etc. Tangible innovations that change the way we live. Yet another kind of innovation—an intangible type—is ideas. Equally as groundbreaking, ideas are often forgotten when we talk about innovation. The theory of relativity, Newton’s laws of motion, loving your neighbor, paying it forward and ending slavery all fall in this category and are definitely a part of changing the way we live.

Brand names continuously introduce innovative ideas. Consider Citibank’s “Live Richly,” Nike’s “Just Do It” and Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaigns—all ideas and concepts that have changed or are changing the way we live.