I’m not a shy person, someone who’s a youth pastor with their own YouTube channel can’t afford to be. I, maybe like you, was concerned about disappearing videos and teenagers when Snap Chat first came out. There are still concerns but Snapchat has evolved since it’s early days with fun filters and has become a…
I’ve seen Batman vs Superman twice now and there a few preachable moments in the movie. One truth I did walk away with is how Lex Luthor’s perspective on God, like many others, gets it all wrong. This version of Lex Luthor, played by Jessie Eisenberg, is millennial tech/entrepreneur who is slowly losing his mind…
Jared Elrod and I sat down for a Blab.im session and talked about taking our calling seriously. You can subscribe to Jared’s YouTube channel here and mine HERE. I also broke this session down into two parts for my Youth Ministry in Motion Podcast which you can subscribe to HERE
Last August I participated in 30 days of #VEDA which stands for Vlogging Every Day In August. This is sponsored by Amy Schmittauer over at SavvySexySocial. Well, it’s about to happen again in April and I need your help In August, I vlogged all 30 days on the iPhone app Periscope to get used to…
Two weeks ago I attended the YS Team Training in Nashville Tn. Now, I have attended YS Training over the past 15 years (or longer) and have found great value in them. This particular YS Training was low key than some others I’ve attended but no less beneficial. The hosts for our training were Marv…
There’s a saying, you measure what’s important or even better. ” if it’s worth doing it’s worth measuring“. Anything could be a measuring tool. Noah used the tip of his elbow to the tip of his tallest finger to build the ark. I bet he wished he had a tape measure or at least a…
I recently learned I didn’t make The Top 30 Youth Ministry Blogs of 2015. Thing is, I wasn’t trying to make it and only slightly disappointed that I didn’t make it. Some of us have lists in our head we’d like to make Pastors Top 3 Favorite Staff Members Top 9 Hipster Beards Top 5…
When I create a post with the word “secret” in it, it get’s clicked. Why? We want to know the secret or hack to: life, business, marriage, parenting, and the list goes on. Secrets are something people want to charge us for and we pay it because we think we need to. People ask, “What’s your…
I am not opposed to youth ministry, just ineffective youth ministry. I’ve heard the most asinine discussions about youth ministry, mostly heard during a staff meeting and from senior pastors in particular. I had some rough kids in one of our youth ministries and had a senior pastor say “Can’t you tell them not to…
Since the writing of this Andy has since apologized on Twitter and gives a longer interview here on what he said and why he said. I knew it would all work out. 🙂 Andy’s already been put on the cross, called a heretic, a false prophet and an all around terrible person? Sorry Andy,…
