This is part two of Balance and Boundaries. If you want to hear part 1 you can click here. Boundaries protect you from abuse When I say abuse I do not mean physical or verbal abuse but time, effort and soul abuse. Part time youth pastors, like...
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Balance and Boundaries: Bi-Vocational Ministry Done Right Part 2
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Balance and Boundaries: Bi-Vocational Ministry Done Right Part 1
I am, currently, a bi-vocational youth worker. I have held this title before so I am well versed in its demands. For me it boils down to keeping these two elements in line, balance and boundaries. Balance Have you ever tried to balance a see-saw?...
Finding the Perfect Voice: Tips for Selecting Your Camp Speaker
I covered my mouth and lowered my head as the outreach speaker spoke. This is not what I was expecting. The delivery, the tone and the humor was off. I felt like I was watching a bad comedian lose their audience. In fact, it was a bad comedian. I...
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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...
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...
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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25 Books Every Youth Pastor Must Read In 2023
It’s the beginning of the year and, if you’re like me, you’re looking for new books to read. These are books I have already read, wrote, or are on my reading list for 2023. I have divided this list into three sections Ministry...
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,...
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...
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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...
The Disciple Project OUTREACH MANUAL
HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR DECAYING YOUTH MEETING INTO A FLOURISHING CITY-WIDE MOVEMENT