I can remember attending Youth Specialties NYWC and feeling like a failure. I looked around and saw these youth pastors who had large teams of people with them. I had normally gone to YS alone because my volunteers couldn’t afford it or didn’t have the...
I am calling this Volunteer Week. If you work with a group of volunteers or are a volunteer yourself, this week is for you. Teams are better than loners. With teams, more work get’s done, more kids are reached, and we have a greater peace in ministry when we...
On it’s face it sounds like a stupid question. “Of course we should be reaching sinners, that is what the church is for!” But I have had too much experience in reaching sinners to know that too many saints or too many sinners changes the programming...
I have to say, I am digging the new album by John Mark McMillan’s, of How He Loves Fame (yeah I know you thought Crowder wrote it) album Borderland. It’s a really moody album and reflects the angst of Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town meets...
Some may think this strange that a preacher does not want to listen to other preachers, but I don’t. It’s not because I don’t like preaching but because of what listening to preaching tends to bring out in me. Here are the five reasons I...
