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…
I just watched the new video/song from 90’s band Disturbed. They’re not a Christian band or even a religious one but they are spiritual. The lead singer David Draiman grew up an Orthodox Jew but pushed back against its strict methodology. The new song is called Hey You and is meant as a “wake up”…
Hi and welcome. If it’s your first time here, I’m Paul and I am the Overlord…no, Emperor?….no, President?…., ok titles don’t matter. What matters is you’ve landed on a page where I feature all my Pay What You Want and Free Stuff to help out all you budget stifled youth pastors. Some of these lessons…
My dad was a bartender, among other things, and when I was kid my father tended bar at the American Legion about a mile from our house. Next to the American Legion was a bakery and right around the time my father was getting off work, around 4 a.m., the baker was finishing their first…
Everyone has an excuse, “I don’t believe in Jesus.” “I’m too busy.” “Can I wait until I’m an adult.” And on and on. The thing is, Jesus experienced rejection first hand. Can you imagine, knowing what you know now, turning down the opportunity to follow Jesus? Students (and adults), like the people of the first…
I have a new series out called Live.Breathe.Be and it based on the Apostle Paul’s conversation with the philosophers at Athen’s Aeropagus, where Paul said, For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ Acts 17:28 If you want this first…
This is my third post, of a three part series, on resolving conflict in the church. You can check out the first post here and the second here. If I can offer you a custom video lesson on this topic for your youth, you can click here. In this post I want to talk about…
This is part two of my series on resolving conflict in the church the right way. You can check out part one here and part three here. If I can offer you a custom video lesson on this topic click here Conflict can be sin, but not every conflict is due to someone committing a…
I’ve been in ministry for over 30 years and I like to think I know a little about conflict. Sometimes I created conflict (youth ministry, am I right?) and sometimes it found me no matter how fast I ran from it. Conflict permeates the pages of scripture but scripture also gives a way to resolve…
Download the pdf and slides here Love is theoretical for many young people. They don’t believe they can truly be loved or to love someone else because they’re not perfect or don’t meet someone else’s standard. This could not be further from the truth. Young people have a great capacity for love when they feel…
