Why Making Disciples Is So Important To Me
This live video on my Youtube channel give the background behind how The Disciple Project came to be. You can purchase the book here and the new Follow 5 bible studies here.
Helping Teens Study The Bible On Their Own
“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” – attributed to Confucius That is the foundation of this episode of the Youth Ministry in Motion podcast. Not only do we need to shorten the distance between a student’s conversion and them…
We Are In The Replacement Business
I was listening to ESPN Get Up this morning and they were talking about Russel Wilson asking for more money to stay the QB in Seattle. I think it was Louis Riddick who said, and I paraphrase, “Front offices are victims of their own arrogance. If they feel like they have enough cap space to…
10 Things I Learned At A High School Campus Bible Club
I’m an area rep for an organization called First Priority. First Priority equips students, youth workers and teach sponsors with resources and training to share the gospel through Bible clubs on their school campus. I get the honor of visiting a different school each week to see how the clubs are doing and offer any…
8 Qualities Students Want In Their Youth Pastor Part 6
If this is your first time here. Welcome. You can check out the beginning of this series here if you like. “Engage” – Captain Picard, Star Trek Do you remember the days of walking into your middle school cafeteria and looking for sympathetic eyes of those who might let you sit at there’re table? I…
8 Qualities Students Want In Their Youth Pastor Part 4
“You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.” ― Eric Liddell, The Disciplines Of The Christian Life I’m fond of saying, “It’s not what you believe, it’s what you practice.” That is not to say that beliefs are not important, but without…
8 Qualities Students Want In Their Youth Pastor Part 2
I’ve treated every youth ministry I’ve led with the mentality of, “What we do every week is equally as important, or more, as what you do in band, football practice or key club” If I did not put the value on what we did every week, no one else would. Many youth ministries operate sloppy…
8 Qualities Students Want In Their Youth Pastor
In my last weeks of being a full time youth pastor, I sat with my students in a small group and asked them a serious question, “What did I do well, so I can pass it on to other youth workers”. I didn’t ask them to flower me with compliments or niceties, I ask them…
Discipleship: Managing Your Locker Room
Texas Coach Tom Herman said something interesting after the Texas Longhorns beat the Georgia Bulldogs in the 2019 Sugar Bowl, “This locker room finally became player led instead of coach fed” This is a powerful statement about how discipleship in our youth ministries should look. Coach fed must happen at the beginning, but it should…
The Real Threats To Youth Ministry
There real threat to youth ministry isn’t outside the church, it’s inside. The world doesn’t care if churches have youth who have meetings The world doesn’t care if kids go to camps or retreats for spiritual renewal. The world has an entirely different expectation for our youth ministry and it does not include numbers of…