I was a big comic book reader. In many of the comics I read I would see an ad for Tony Atlas body building, like this. In my view, the guy/girl usually getting sand kicked in their face, in the church, is the youth pastor. The “bully” could be anyone, the pastor, a board member,…
Singer Carolyn Arends has a great song called New Year’s Day, where she commits to this idea, This will be my resolutionEvery day is New Year’s DayThis will be my resolutionEvery day is New Year’s Day Many people think there is something magical about the first day of the year and I understand that. It’s…
I recently watched a podcast episode about the value of reviewing your goals and I thought I’d pass them along to you. Principles of Review The unexamined life is not worth living – Socrates I would put it this way, “the unexamined youth ministry isn’t worth building”. Not reviewing your goals, events or programs means…
Hustle. In means to move faster and work harder than everyone.People of faith might be the worst at hustling. I can testify to that. I thought that because I prayed and read my Bible, God was going to do all the heavy lifting and like Pedro promised in Napoleon Dynamite, “all your dreams will come…
The pursuit of celebrity, in youth ministry and church, is killing our Christian influence with teens and the rest of the world. Students don’t want another rock star, they want a servant who shows them how to be like Jesus. Let’s start undoing this by looking at how to integrate more humility into our lives…
I’d love if you went over to iTunes and subscribed and left a review. With your youth ministry getting ready to kick back into gear, there is the temptation to become busy again, to over-plan, to stretch yourself too far and to fill up calendar for no good reason other than you find your value…
Today I welcome my first two time guest, Ryan Latham. Ryan and I go back a ways and wrote a book together called Prepared for Impact. Ryan is the founder of Renewed Leadership, a staff training organization for churches and businesses. Today he brings you some critical tips to saving your jobs if your church…
So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. Hebrews 10:35-36 NIV I knew, after 30 years of youth pastor, how to acquire things. I knew I might need those table…
I put together a newsletter every few weeks for my subscribers called The Youth Ministry Round Up. I fill this youth ministry newsletter with articles, videos, quotes, etc. and in the last Youth Ministry Round Up I featured a video called The New Great Depression by Moth and The Flame. The video, featured below, is…
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