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Date:March 5, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Culture Thoughts, Discipleship, Youth Ministry

Altar Calls Are Not Proof Of Anything, Except This

I feel like I am about to talk to you about 8 track tapes, those boxy clunky pieces of plastic that held music inside and you would pop them into your 8 track player in your car or home stereo. Like the 8 track tape, the altar call feel like an bygone method of people…

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Date:February 24, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Culture Thoughts, evangelism, programming, Youth Ministry

16 Sweet Youth Group Ideas For March Madness

It’s that time of year. It happens every March. Some students in your youth groups are excited for it and others could care less. Here’s the good news, your group doesn’t have to have a lot athletes for you to use March Madness as a fun tool to have fun or spiritually challenge students. For…

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Date:February 20, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Productivity

Youth Pastor, Here’s How To Plan Your Perfect Week

At the beginning of the year I designated each day of the week (M-F) to focus on one thing because ​Practical PKM​ suggested it would change how I work. So, here is how I allotted my days, Monday is Writing Day where ​I blog ​or post on social Tuesday is Audio Day when ​I record…

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Date:February 19, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Productivity

The New Youth Pastors Guide To Getting Things Done

If you’ve been in youth ministry a while, think about to when you first started working in a church, did you discover some resistance to your new ideas? How long did it take you before you figured out you were working in system that didn’t favor new or innovative ideas? Part of the reason new…

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Date:February 13, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Leadership, Productivity, youth ministry jobs

6 Work Principles That Could Save Your Job

You could call this Surviving A Quarterly Review Part 2. In part one I shared a critical tip and 3 important reasons you should embrace the quarterly review. In this post I want to help you prepare, all year long, for what some youth pastors consider a critical meeting, or meetings, that could effect their…

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Date:February 6, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Youth Worker Training

Surviving The Quarterly Review

I sat in an office with the head of the youth ministry committee, 2 youth ministry volunteers and my pastor and if you think Leonardo DiCaprio got mauled in The Revenant, you haven’t seen anything. I sat there for an hour as a list of my faults, issues and problems were declared as if someone…

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Date:January 31, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:New Resource, programming

Action Figures Not Funko Pops

One of the hardest things to do is get a teenager to go from apathy to action. Usually somewhere in between there, we’re trying all kinds of methodology. Parents, teachers, youth pastors, try everything, right? And I’ve done it. I have three grown children. It’s hard to get them from action, from apathy to action.…

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Date:January 27, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Leadership, Youth Ministry, Youth Worker Training

How To Get Students To Show Up, Consistently

I asked some youth pastors what their current needs were and this was one of their questions: How can I get a more consistent groups of kids coming to youth group? The answer is in the question. You get more consistent students when you are a more consistent youth pastor. Youth pastors who are always…

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Date:January 17, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Culture Thoughts, Inspire Me, Leadership

Notre Dame Coach, Marcus Freeman Says “Choosing Hard” Is The Only Way To Win In Football and Life

I have been a Notre Dame fan for 40 years. I can hear some of you saying, “Oh, you poor thing”. The last time I saw them play in a National Championship was 1988, 37 years ago. Head coach Marcus Freeman said something a few weeks ago that inspired me and I want to pass…

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Date:January 14, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Inspire Me, Productivity

Youth Pastor, This Is The First Book You Should Read This Year

Let me ask you, how many excuses did you make last year?  Probably a lot, as did I,  Let me narrow it down, how many excuses did you make last year that kept you and your youth ministry from being successful?  I bet you can narrow it down to a few.  One more question, how…

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