When I was younger, I could not see the correlation between privacy and power; I thought I would have all the energy and wisdom I needed when I needed it. I wasn’t until I got a little older, mostly through failure, that I took my private time, and what I did with it, more seriously.…
Updated 11/23/2022 Many youth ministries are in decline and dying. Yes, there are cycles, ups and downs and seasons, but there are some youth ministries that are just plain dying. If you’re one of these youth pastors whose youth group is in decline, I feel for you. I’ve been there. A declining youth ministry is…
It breaks my heart that so many young youth pastors who enter youth ministry are not being discipled by their pastors, deacons or mature men or women of the church. Sadly, lead pastors hire youth pastors with an expectation that they have it all together without committing to further developing them spiritually. Are you one…
This is part four of a four part series based on my new message series The Process. Your can check out the first post here. If you’re in interested in the series you can get a free lesson by signing up for my newsletter or you can purchase the whole series here. The anvil of…
This is part three of a four part series called The Process, based on my new discipleship message series for youth, but, before the message can impact them, it must impact you. You can check out the beginning of the series here. If you want the first lesson of my new series, free, sign up…
This is part two of a series called The Process. The Process is my new discipleship series for students but it should first be applied to the life of the youth worker, you. You can read the first part, The Fire of Youth Work, here. The Bible is the Youth Pastor’s main tool or should…
So many people fall away from faith when their expectations of God are not met or when life get’s too hard. They feel like God has left them or that his commands are too restrictive. Trials and trouble are not going anywhere, so it’s best for you to know that they are going to continue…
This is part three of a three part bible study on helping those who walk away from the faith and how to strengthen your own faith in the process. Click here to go to part one. Why isn’t God afraid of our hard questions? What does this say about God? What does Jackie mean when…
