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...

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...

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...

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...

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...