What do you do when a kid (or kids) from a fellow youth workers youth group comes to your youth ministry? If you’re in a small town, like mine, you’re going to have kids church hop. Kids will make the rounds from youth group to youth group. You know those kids, they come for a…
Making life-long followers of Jesus. It’s kind of the point of my blog here. Every idea, video, etc, is meant to encourage you to think long term. To change something about yourself, your program, or even your theology when it some to making disciples. I want you to become life-long disciple makers, not just more…
Just had a conversation with a friend of mine. Her and her husband wanted counseling to work on their marriage. As many of us, who wanted help I our marriage, we’d look outside of our church because we might think the people in our church were too close to the situation. She told me she…
I heard the phrase “Fix the well, not the sink” the other day on The GaryVee show. I thought the phrase was worth exploring. We all have a well, a depth of heart and spirit where everything we think and say draws from. I don’t know how many times I’ve said, “Why did I say…
In fact, I did not gain a degree from any college. I am one class (Math) shy of an AA from my local community college. So, what’s a guy with no college degree in youth ministry busy doing creating his own courses on youth ministry? Before I answer this question, let me give you a…
I recently watch Katy Perry accept an award from the LGBT community, and what she said in the the first 30 seconds broke my heart. As one who has served the church for 27 years, I would have loved if Katy was talking about The Church. There’s no other community that has done more to…
If you are planning on on being at your church for only a year, then doubling it should be easy, but you have to hurry. Throw lot’s of party’s and events. Games, more games, and game nights. Keep your messages to ten minutes tops. Do not challenge anyone to serve or lead. Give away lots…
“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Joel 2:12 Even now. Saying this phrase transports me to the 80’s when I heard Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band sing it. It’s a song about love and about how much a woman has an…
Many try to withdraw from bank accounts where they have not invested and wonder why they’re told “insufficient funds”. It’s simple, we haven’t invested or haven’t invested enough. What do I mean by invested? I mean we haven’t given enough encouragement, worth, value, love or upside to the individuals around us. We haven’t given others…
“I just want to get out alive” I told myself before a recent youth meeting. That’s when I knew it, I mean I saw it coming, I just couldn’t stop it. Burn out. I had yelled, “Why does any of it matter. ” towards, not at, my wife that morning. Is there a difference? Not…
