I hate this question, because I have to choose between the truth or a lie or a half truth, which is also a lie. Since leaving my full time youth pastor gig to travel and speak more, I had a great summer run. I did some coaching, speaking at camp, and speaking at youth groups.…
“Does it matter to a man dying in a desert by which choice of route he missed the only well?” –C S Lewis This quote caught my attention on Twitter and reminded me, as a Pastor, that going back over someone’s life’s mistakes isn’t the road to healing. Yes, the past matters in regards to…
There’s a long list of last days, last times, That restaurant you love. That book your reading. Your child not needing you anymore. The last day you’re on the earth. Even the world will have it’s last one day Last night was my last night as full time youth pastor. It’s not nearly as dramatic…
I think I found the quote I want on my tombstone “To the very end” What do you do, consistently? Is it important? Valuable? Generous? Does it bless others? Does it encourage? Most importantly, is it worth doing all the way the end? I want to Love to the very end Follow to the very end Lead…
I’m sitting in a motel room in Montgomery, Al. waiting to go to sleep before my trip to Panama tomorrow. Since I am retiring from full time youth pastoring, I started to wonder if this would be my last mission trip. I think this might be my last mission trip of this kind. By this…
It was like Thanos had snapped his fingers and 400 subscribers vanished. In my earlier post I shared how I had lost over 100 subscribers, but I had no idea I had lost that many. Here’s what really happen and why I think it happened. After some back and forth with Mail Chimp, my e-mail…
No, this isn’t clickbait or even an article about what you should do if you resign (that will come later), but I really did resign from my job. I didn’t get in trouble and all my relationships in the church are fine. This process has been going on for about a year and a half. I…
I’m a person in love with reach students. Yes, I’ve been a youth pastor, professionally, for 28 years, but that’s not why I reach and disciple students. I reach and disciple students because someone reached and discipled me. There is something weird about saying you’re a professional youth worker. It’s like saying you’re a professional…
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman Being unreasonable doesn’t sound nice or fun, but it is necessary if we want progress. Being unreasonable, to me, means…
“When you enter the land which the LORD will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this rite. “And when your children say to you, ‘What does this rite mean to you?’ you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the LORD who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel…
