Have you ever wonder why there is no awards show for youth pastors? I mean we could give out some awards like Best Worship Pose Best Hipster Beard Best Game Player Best Talk Giver Best Organized But, alas, no award show has been created for us, or has there? You see, our awards or…
My past youth ministries were way too safe. Too predictable. But I was always trying to change this. When I say I want youth ministries to be more dangerous, I don’t mean I want kids to get hurt or that we they are a place where it’s not safe for kids to share. What I…
Dear Blog, I hate you. I love you. I hate you. I love you. I stare at you all the time but you confuse me. I have no idea what to do with you most of the time. I don’t want to write crap on you so I don’t write any thing at all. I…
I was reading this article from Lisa Earle McLeod, and it made me really think about goal setting and happiness. Here is an excerpt. For example, a client of mine set a goal to take a trip to Paris this year. I asked her why Paris, she said, “It will make me happy.” Paris certainly…
I have a Fiverr account. Fiverr is a place where you can charge a minimum of $5 for a product or service. I don’t really promote it a lot, but I should. I offer “gigs” such as Writing custom devotions for your teens Practice interviews for youth pastors Create custom prayer stations for your retreat…
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you may notice that at the end of every post I say “Your Turn”. I’ve been playing tag with you. I am saying “Your it!, do something. Nothing worse than playing tag with a person who just stand there, right? Sometimes I’m pushing you in the…
I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said ‘Happy Birthday’ on it. I didn’t want to waste it so I just wrote ‘Jesus’ on it.- Demetri Martin I watched Christmas Vacation for the up-teenth time and it gets better every year. I…
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.- Charles M. Schulz One of my favorite parts of Christmas are stocking stuffers. Stocking stuffers can be something super valuable that you did not put under the tree in order to fool someone or something frivolous yet fun that someone wouldn’t buy for themselves. Stocking stuffers…
“If you can see it and have the courage enough to speak it, it will happen. A lot of times people believe in certain things but they keep it to themselves, they don’t put it out there. If you believe in it enough the law of attraction will come into it and it will happen.”…
“For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;” Perish: suffer complete ruin or destruction. synonyms: come to an end, die (away), disappear, vanish, fade, dissolve, evaporate, melt away, wither When we stray from the truth about God. Ourselves. Our business. Our ministry. We’ll get lost in…
