Giving youth pastors the tools they need to make and shape disciples.

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A Discipleship Checklist For Youth Pastors

In his book, The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande shares several disciplines that use checklists to accomplish major and minor task such as construction companies, restaurants and hospitals. This got me thinking, “Shouldn’t there be a...

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De-convoluting Discipleship

Are numbers in youth ministry important? Yes. Are they the only metric we should be looking at to determine whether our youth ministry is successful? No. Then why do youth ministries, still, seem to be hyper focused on how many kids come to youth...

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Lent: Nothing Left To Give Up, Except This

Lent Day 1: Letters To The Exiled, Spiritual Nomads and the Lost On this first day of Lent, I have chosen to not give up anything physical, rather, for the next 40 days I will give up my pride.  There are many who follow me on social media who...

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Helping Teens Follow Jesus

This post was written by AI. I asked the AI in a note creating, word organizing platform called Notion to write a blog post using this post’s title: How To Help Teens Follow Jesus. Here is the post it gave me. Introduction Being a teenager...

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NF Hope Bible Study

NF is back with a brand new song and video and I have written a bible study you can do with your students. These is the raw notes, but if you want the slides and graphics, sign up for my newsletter here. Prepare To prepare for this study on hope,...

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Why More Pentecostals Should Celebrate Lent

I have not always been Pentecostal. In fact, I didn’t choose to be Pentecostal, any more than I chose to be Catholic, it sort of chose me. I was a resistant, skeptical, former Catholic who found himself at a protestant Bible College seeking...

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Youth Ministry Meeting Mania

With the new Ant-Man movie, Quantumania coming out, now is good time to plan your own mania night. Mania is just a way to say “hyper focused” on an idea or event. Whatever idea you choose, go all in on it. 5 Mania Meeting Ideas Music...

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Would You Be Confident Enough To Say This?

I spent a week in Kauai, Hawaii lecturing young adults about the private time with God and why it’s so important. In between the lecturing I got to drive around and taste the town from Puka Dogs to Mahi Mahi fish tacos. I came home and thew...

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The Disciple Project OUTREACH MANUAL

HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR DECAYING YOUTH MEETING INTO A FLOURISHING CITY-WIDE MOVEMENT