How To Encourage Creativity In Teens

I picked up the book On Writing by horror author Stephen King. There is a great couple of paragraphs, at the beginning of the book, where his mother encourages Stephen to write his own stories versus copying the stories from his comic book Combat Casey. Within these two paragraphs lies a few keys to unlocking…

Youth Ministry Round Up #81

Welcome! If you’re new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox.  School will be back in session soon, are you ready for it? If you’re feeling like you’re not ready, you’re not alone. No one knows, exactly, what their youth ministry will look like…

Loki Episode 6: A Necessary Lie

“What if it’s a necessary lie?” – Ravonna  Episode six of season one of Loki was a good one and if you keep reading there may be some spoilers. You’ve been warned. Are we free or are we being manipulated? That is the deeper question being asked in this episode. The TVA is a lie.…

Loki Episode 5: Facing Your Alioth

This episode of Loki was packed with great lines making it hard to choose a theme to write on, but the overall theme of this episode was about how to defeat an entity called and Alioth. According to Marvel Fandom,”Alioth is a trans-temporal entity, existing across divergent timelines as an enormous cloud destroying all it…

Youth Ministry Round Up #80

Welcome! If you’re new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox.  Youth Ministry of The Week: The Edge. This looks like fun! Pray for The Edge of Kauai, Hawaii. Articles Young American Adults Are Dying — and Not Just From Covid America’s Workers Are…

Loki Episode One: We Are All Loki

“I am burdened with glorious purpose!” And with big eyes and an open mouth I answered, “I’m Loki”. My wife and I watched the first episode of Loki starring Tom Hiddleston and playing on Disney + and I had an epiphany. I left full time youth ministry to start a youth worker coaching business, travel,…