This is part six in my seven part series on how to keep your youth ministry from collapsing. You can read from the beginning here. Without discipleship, the church is a halfway house for repeat offenders. That’s a strong statement, but I stand behind it. I’ve worked in enough churches that were unintentional in their…
It’s currently summer time and thousands of teenagers will make commitments to Christ at camp and drop their commitment as fast as a bag of dirty laundry when they get home. We can change this. It’s my belief that it takes multiple commitments to Christ before a teenager starts to “get it” and they discover…
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.
“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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
