Welcome to part five of my series The Five Plans Every New Youth Pastor Should Have. You can check out the beginning of the series here. Can I tell you when I most often felt the burn of burn out? It was was when the wheels in my head started to grind together...
In my opinion, and currently my experience, the weight of a small youth ministry is much heavier than running a large ministry. I want to share five weights small youth pastors have to bear that large youth group pastors do not. The weight of loss Bearing the weight...
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...
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...
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...
