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Stubborn Youth Pastors Always Win
Welcome back! This is my fourth post in my attempt to convince you that you're an artist. You may be a youth pastor, a small group leader, a bi-vocational youth worker who does plumbing on the side, or a volunteer youth...
3 Tips For Apprenticeship While You Look For A Master
This is day three of my twelve part series, using Jeff Goins new book, Real Artists Don't Starve, to convince you, the local youth pastor, that you are an artist. You can catch up by starting here and then here. Why not grab the book and read long...
The First Lesson I Learned In Youth Ministry
I was at a Youth Specialties NYWC and I was sitting in a Doug Field's breakout session and he said, "You don't have to be original, beg, borrow and steal." Wait, I didn't have to come up with all this stuff myself? It was ok to steal ideas from...
We All Used To Think This Way, Until…
We thought we were unique, we weren't We thought we were original, we weren't We thought we were the first, we weren't We thought we were going to change everything, we didn't We thought we had what it took, we didn't We thought we were equipped...
5 Tips For Talking With Teens
I guess I never real thought about it, I'm not a shy person. As a youth worker I saw other youth workers who were outgoing and up front people. This style of youth work seem to fit my personality and I thought it as the way all youth workers were....
3 Ways to Spice Up The Boring Grad Gift
You Still Have Time To make your grad gifts shine! Whether you are a youth pastor prepping for Grad Sunday or a parent just want to make graduation a little extra special, here are three ways to spice up the boring grad gift. I just finished...
How Come No One Told Me?
Growing up... No one told me that I'd be second guessing everything at 49 No one told me it was ok to switch directions. No one told me its was ok to pursue something different. No one told me it was ok to have many dreams, not just one. No one...
We Do Have A Choice
“One of the consequences of sin is that it makes the sinner pity himself instead of causing him to turn to God. One of the first signs of new life is that the individual takes sides with God against himself.” ― Donald Grey Barnhouse Jesus...
11 Worship Resources To Help Teens Embrace The Quiet
If I took away your band (if you have one), how would you invite your students to worship God? Can you worship God without a band? Blasphemy to think such a thing, but many of our students don't think so because youth workers, like us, say, "Its...
3 Tragedies of a Complacent Life
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities. - Benjamin E. Mays...
What Is The Perfect Gift For High School Graduates?
Every parent and youth worker are asking this question. If you are youth worker, we've all been down that path where we are looking for that something special and wind up giving out graduating seniors a bible and card. There's nothing wrong with...
Are SMART Goals A Dumb Idea For Youth Pastors?
Be SMART with how you set and accomplish your goals. pic.twitter.com/iUKPQSnp90— Larry Kim (@larrykim) April 2, 2018 We all have goals, but we don't all reach them the same way. I should have titled this Are SMART Goals A Dumb Idea For...
13 Take Aways From The Netflix Series 13 Reasons Why
In my last post I talked about what I hated about 13 Reasons Why. The series was not devoid of meaning or purpose, the message was loud and clear: kids are killing themselves and it's preventable. There are no new revelations as far as youth...
13 Reasons Why I Hated The Netflix Series 13 Reasons Why
Five minutes into the Netflix series 13 Reasons, I was hating it. If you're not familiar with the show, 13 Reasons is based on the book of the same title, written by Jay Asher. The 13 episodic series tells the story of Hannah Baker's suicide, why...
Re-Branding Your Ministry In 3 Questions
Re-Brandng a ministry sounds daunting, and it is, if you don't know where to start. In this episode of the Youth Ministry In Motion podcast, I share how I started the rebranding process with just three questions. Don't forget to subscribe the Fresh...
The Disciple Project OUTREACH MANUAL
HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR DECAYING YOUTH MEETING INTO A FLOURISHING CITY-WIDE MOVEMENT