Welcome to my 400th blog post! I never thought it would happen but I’m glad it did. Thank you all who read my scribblings and I hope to write 400 more in 2015. Please tell me how I can best serve you and you youth ministry. I am reflecting on my time at the…
I recently read a new found article written by science fiction writer Sir Issac Asimov on creativity and this quote stuck out to me If a single individual present is unsympathetic to the foolishness that would be bound to go on at such a session, the others would freeze. The unsympathetic individual may be a…
In the podcast, I mentioned something about out-growing your church and I was asked to explain what I meant. Here was my response “Let me first say that outgrowing a church does not mean that I have become more spiritual than others. I am speaking more to outgrowing the organization and maybe the culture of…
Do we have to preach about Christmas at Christmas time? I know that sounds like a dumb question but hear me out. I am very much opposed to the commerial-ization of Christmas. I don’t like to feel like I am a slave to the season and that I have to do something because of tradition…
Another week another list of music worth playing in your youth room. Here ya go. Heartbeat – Jericho Sin is Swagless – Jericho For Those Who Can’t Speak – Tenth Ave North You Are – Virtue Long Live – King and Country Christian Dance Mix on YouTube
Have you ever sat at the end of a movie a didn’t know what to feel about? Did I like it? Did I hate it? I wound up in the messy middle about Interstellar. The story is solid but has some problems with the narrative as some dots in the plot did not connect…
Every week I check out songs on Itunes. I go through almost every genre (sorry classical) looking for songs that will make the teens in my group tap their toes and bob their head. I mostly use Christian music so the list will be Christian Music heavy but it is not beyond me to…
I can’t help it. My brain is in 2015. This has been a great year for our youth ministry so I am not trying to get through with it but I am anticipating what God is going to do. I asked the good people on Facebook’s Youth Leaders Only to give me one word that…
Do you remember the movie Dave from 1993. It stars Kevin Kline as a presidential look alike drafted into impersonating the real President who has had a stroke. It’s a wonderful movie. Dave is just an ordinary guy put in an extra-ordinary situation because of his familiar look of a powerful man. The President’s wife…
I know boring and youth ministry should not be in the same sentence but it was necessary. I think the perception for many years has been that the leader of a vibrant, growing, youth ministry has to be young, attractive, and talented. I am none of those things and it’s possible that many of you…
