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7 Ways To Recycle That Youth Ministry Message
You just preached a message, you wipe your brow and say, "Whewww, that's done." But is it? Did you work that hard for that one message that would be done 20 minutes only to be left in a computer folder? It has more life than you think. In an...
Unmistakeable Youth Ministry
When kids come to your youth ministry could it be mistaken for something else? Could it be mistaken for a club for only the cool kids? Could it be mistaken for a YMCA with great activities? Could it be mistaken for a TED talk where kids just sit...
Experience Will Only Get You So Far
It's hard to give back from a place of instability - Gary V. This statement by Gary Vaynerchuk applies in so many ways, whether you want to give back financially, emotionally, or spiritually, you can't do it from a place of instability or lack. If...
Tips For Live Streaming Your Church Service
I have had the pleasure and the challenge of leading our church into the streaming age. I've had plenty of experience streaming my own stuff, but for a church service, we needed a little more polish. After studying all the options, we went with...
Turning Your “To Do List” Into A “To Be List”
I love a good list. I love checking things off because my dopamine spikes when check something off. The problem with to do lists is that they don't turn into "to be" lists. The things on my list are not translating into a more fuller life. Just...
The Day I Realized This, It Crushed Me
des·ti·ny ˈdestinē/ noun the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future. the hidden power believed to control what will happen in the future; fate. Today was a hard day. Today I gave up on destiny. For years I...
3 Reasons I Live Stream Our Youth Service On Facebook
I have Live Streamed our youth service several times now, and I love it. Do we live stream because we have the greatest, hypest, most lit, youth ministry in the universe? Nope. In fact we are exactly the opposite. We are the most awkward...
The Wrong Kind of Busy
If you're busy putting out fires... If you're spending more time online complaining and defending ... If you're constantly having to argue over what you can't do... You're the wrong kind of busy. Spend your time investing in others and those fires...
Growing Older In Youth Ministry Sucks
I hate to disappoint you youngin's in ministry who, like me, romanticize youth ministry. You may think it's great being the grizzled veteran whose seen it all only to sit with a bottle of scotch at night smoking cuban cigars and wondering where the...
The Danger of Study, Preach, Repeat
I know it can't only be true for me, but there was a time where I would only read the Bible to "get a message" for my students or congregation. Sad, I know, but I think it's because of the way I viewed scripture that caused me to treat it in such a...
The Number One Reason I’m Not Ministering To More People
I don't judge, I react and sell. - @garyvee I love entrepreneur and CEO Gary Vayerchucks' directness. He's a salesman and he's trying to get to the sale. Gary eliminates anything that gets in the way of the sale because he values speed. Judgment...
My Top 10 Favorite Podcasts (at the moment)
It's #InternationalPodcastDay and I thought I'd share some of of my favorite podcasts. I try to be balanced between business, fun, and ministry because life is not one thing, it's many things. The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast Carey is a pastor...
Halfway Is The Problem
It sounds great when we say things like, I'll meet you half way. I'll give you half my sandwich. We won the lottery! I'll give you half. But there are plenty of things you don't want half of. Would you like to have half sex? Nope. I'll drive you...
31 Youth Ministry Instagram Ideas For Halloween
Think of all the things you're afraid of. Most will never come true, except for maybe death. How do you handle the real fears? Not the clowns or the spiders (yet, for some, its very real) but real fears like never having close friends or being...
Don’t Give Your Whole Life To Youth Ministry
Vanity meaningless a chasing after the wind Are all themes of the book of Ecclesiastes and only now am I realizing that this also applies to youth ministry. When I read verses like And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they...
The Disciple Project OUTREACH MANUAL
HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR DECAYING YOUTH MEETING INTO A FLOURISHING CITY-WIDE MOVEMENT