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The Free Youth Ministry Resource You Didn’t know You Needed
If you are a frequent visitor here, you may have noticed the frequent, password protected Youth Ministry Round Up posts and wondered what that's all about. Let me explain. The Youth Ministry Round Up is what I send out to those who subscribe to the...
Youth Group Halloween Lesson: The Darkness, The Devil and The Dead
It's almost that time. The time when everyone loses their minds in ministry and argue over that one day of the year, Halloween. Over the years, I've seen so much energy put into whether "the church" should acknowledge Halloween let alone leverage...
Youth Ministry Round Up #17: Halloween Edition
Quotes You need to follow The Wrestling Pastor When you’re heading to the santcuary excited to preach and a church member sneak attacks you with a complaint... pic.twitter.com/9UvGX4hdBy— The Wrestling Pastor (@WrestlingPastor) September 23, 2018...
4 Youth Group Lessons About Commitment Your Teens Need To Hear
I'm cheating on Halloween with All Saints Day (or All Souls Day) this year. I've never made a big deal of All Saints Day but Halloween has lost some of it's pizzazz for me. Besides, All Saints Day focuses on the commitment the saints made, even...
Youth Ministry Round Up #16
Welcome! If you're new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Hey! How's your school year going so far? Great I hope. While you're still tweaking that calendar, don't forget to jump over to...
Have I Said Everything I Can Say?
Please take what I am about to say with a grain of salt. These are feelings that I have chosen to put here because.. a) Twitter character count is too short b) Facebook invites my friends, and other, to chime in to encourage me, counsel me, etc....
Podcast: Developing Small Group Leaders Who Care
This is a rough transcript of Chad and I's discussion on the podcast. I do not attempt a word for word transcript, but I try to interject key points and elaborate on Chad's excellent thoughts for your benefit. If you have a moment, if you're a...
Four Fantastic Questions To Ask When You Feel Stuck
We've all been there. Our dreams give way to the 9-5 and we get stuck on repeat for weeks, months and even years. Then, one day we begin to dream again and ask "what if?" These four questions are meant to break the life traffic jam we seem to be...
Answering “How’s It Going?” Honestly
I hate this question, because I have to choose between the truth or a lie or a half truth, which is also a lie. Since leaving my full time youth pastor gig to travel and speak more, I had a great summer run. I did some coaching, speaking at camp,...
30 Ways To Creatively Invest Your Next 30 Minutes
There's all kind of ways to spend your next 30 minutes take a nap listen to a podcast watch 4 or 5 Youtube videos Watch a Disenchantment episode on Netflix (don't judge me) But none of those things are going solve a problem you have or stir up the...
The Secret Plan Adversity Has For Your Life
Some people run from adversity and others run into it. - Gary Vaynerchuk Adversity: from Old French adversite, from Latin adversitas, from advertere ‘turn toward.’ Most fo the time, I look at adversity at adversity as that thing that won't let me...
Youth Ministry Round Up: Back To School Edition
Welcome! If you're new here and are not a subscriber, subscribe here and get the Youth Ministry Round Up in your inbox. Happy Almost End Of Summer! School is in full swing here in Alabama., which means you are busy planning, have planned, or are...
13 Soul Stretching Strategies To Combat The Numbers Game
Is It All About The Numbers? Yes and No. Numbers are always part of the equation if numeric growth is part of the vision. Youth Ministry is about relationships, the depth and feh quality of those relationships do not have to be hurt by paying...
Launching Your College and Career Ministry
In this podcast episode of the Wednesday @ 1 livestream, I did some spaghetti throwing at the wall about College and Career Ministry, in response to a viewers question. I share some of my ideas and what I've done in the past, as well some ideas...
Why Being Different Is A Good Thing
I want to talk about two kinds of different. The first is a business kind of different. In business they say, We’re faster, we’re cheaper or we’re better. According to a Forbes magazine article, you should pick two. In fact, if you try to be all...
The Disciple Project OUTREACH MANUAL
HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR DECAYING YOUTH MEETING INTO A FLOURISHING CITY-WIDE MOVEMENT