A Message To My Creative Self

I love you. I hate you. Two weeks ago you and I had a discussion about killing this blog. Since that time you poked me every day to write something. Anything. And I love you for it. I hate you. You move around like someone in the witness protection program. I am...

Interview With Author Clay Morgan

I conducted my first Google + interview today. I started a new playlist on my channel called off The Shelf. This is where I talk about cool books, resources, etc. for youth pastors and otherwise. Clay was my first interview and he was a super guy. We talked about his...

Turning Our Youth Meetings Into Art Classes

  art /ärt/ Noun The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture,…: “the art of the Renaissance” Works produced by such skill and imagination. I have always had an...

Faith As Performance Art

If we believe we have a youth group full of artist then displaying their faith is a form of performance art. I know we are put off by the word performance, but don’t be. When we preach we perform. We use props, music, all the things that can be involved in...

What If We Saw Our Students As Artists?

  I took this picture last night and posted on FB later on with this caption “These are not band members they are artists and hey are not having a band practice, they are artists collaborating on how to best honor God with their gifts and talents.” I...