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5 Keys To Exceptional Disciple Making
What does it look like in your church to get something approved? Paperwork? Meetings? Yelling? Let's narrow this down a bit. Would your board or Pastor approve of the way you are making disciples? Could you get your current...
5 Ways To Tell The Future Of Your Youth Ministry Part 5: A Heart To Win and Train
How a youth worker reaches teens, families, etc. can be the center of attention in church much like a tightrope walker in the middle of a circus. Everyone is watching. This can be a good thing if our heart and passion is to reach kids for Christ...
5 Ways To Tell The Future Of Your Youth Ministry Part 4: Intentional Community
Community, by definition, is A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government. The district or locality in which such a group lives. A group of people having common interests. All of these definitions sound so clinical...
5 Ways To Tell The Future Of Your Youth Ministry Part 3: Balance
Is your youth ministry's future looking any clearer? I hope so. Yesterday we talked about how our attitude could indicate our future and today I want to share the importance of a balanced ministry, family, and personal life as indicators to your...
5 Ways To Tell The Future Of Your Youth Ministry Part 2: Your Attitude
In yesterday's post I shared part one of knowing your youth ministries future. How, when, and who solves your problems is a clear indicator whether you will spend your time putting out fires or leading your youth ministry into living out...
5 Ways To Tell The Future Of Your Youth Ministry Part 1
If you could see the future of your youth ministry would you want to see it? I personally think it would be scarey so i would not want to know. The good news is you don't need a crystal ball to see your youth ministries future. Scripture...
My Music Picks Of 2014
I listen to predominately Christian/Gospel music but I make room in my ears for all kinds of music. In fact, you may find the diversity of my list absurd. Music has the power to make us dance, weep, shout, and lose our minds. I think I experienced...
My Content Covenant With You
What will you be reading this year? Probably some new books and articles. Which blogs are you going to read to help equip you to do what God has gifted you to do? Which blogs will you read to give you encouragement when you're down or to give you...
The 14 Youth Ministry Questions I Had To Answer
At the first of the year I posted 14 questions that were on my "to do" list as far as digging deeper into why we do what we do and how can we get better as a youth ministry. Well, it's the end of the year and it's time to see how well I did with...
3 Ways To Keep Youth Ministry Momentum During The Holidays
The one thing I don't love about the Holidays is missing meetings with our students. Missing one meeting during Thanksgiving and two weeks during Christmas can create a momentum challenge to a youth group. I guess it's all in the way you...
If We Would Just Commit To Our Passion The Way Chris Conte Does For Football…
We'd be better off Just heard and was refreshed about Chris Conte's matter of fact comments about trading the experience of playing football for a taking 10-15 years off his life span. “I'd rather have the experience of playing and, who...
We Have To Stop Meeting Like This: Because This Is Not How Any Of This Works
I love this commercial. It tells me that we can completely misunderstand how something works. In this case Facebook, posting pictures and unfriending. When it come to youth meetings and youth ministry I feel like saying, to just about everyone,...
Three Reasons I’ll Volunteer Again At The #NYWC
Welcome to my 400th blog post! I never thought it would happen but I'm glad it did. Thank you all who read my scribblings and I hope to write 400 more in 2015. Please tell me how I can best serve you and you youth ministry. I am reflecting...
Why Our Youth Ministries Need Sir Isaac Asimov
I recently read a new found article written by science fiction writer Sir Issac Asimov on creativity and this quote stuck out to me If a single individual present is unsympathetic to the foolishness that would be bound to go on at such a session,...
3 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Church
In the podcast, I mentioned something about out-growing your church and I was asked to explain what I meant. Here was my response "Let me first say that outgrowing a church does not mean that I have become more spiritual than others. I am speaking...
The Disciple Project OUTREACH MANUAL
HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR DECAYING YOUTH MEETING INTO A FLOURISHING CITY-WIDE MOVEMENT