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Date:April 2, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Devotions, Inspire Me

Feeling Discouraged? Keep Drawing.

“I felt my energy revive, and said to myself, In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. From that moment everything has seemed transformed for me.” Vincent van GoghLetter #136 to Theo (24…

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Date:April 1, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Culture Thoughts, Devotions, Free Youth Group Lessons, Youth Ministry

Youth Group Lesson: Letting God Break Your Heart

This lesson is a part of my Media2 Message Bundle where I take what is going on in the world and bring a biblical context to to it. Focus: Helping students respond, compassionately, to the needs of others.  Opening: Lonely Authors Video Clips:  Author One or Author Two (both are under a minute) Both of…

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Date:March 20, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Culture Thoughts, Discipleship, Youth Ministry

How I’m teaching my students to use Ai for spiritual growth

Teens are going to use Ai for plenty of things, mostly research an doing their book reports for them, but that doesn’t mean they can’t use it to help grow their spiritual life. We are working through Proverbs right now, in Sunday School, and I thought I’d go undercover as a teenager and ask ChatGPT…

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Date:March 13, 2025Posted By:projectadminCategory:Culture Thoughts, evangelism

The Elite 8: Message Seeds For March Madness

I love me some sports and though, “How can I pair up March Madness and my speaking calendar?” I hope these message seeds will give you a quick “What am I going to talk about tonight?” message or, and even better, sparks your own creativity to come up with your own. The Elite 8 of…

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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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