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…
If this is your first time here, welcome. I’ve been doing a podcast for a little over five years now and have been fortunate enough to be, as of this posting, ranked the number one podcast among youth ministry podcasts. Whether I was number one or number one hundred and one, I am pretty sure…
I am going to guess that you have not reached point where you do not care about expectation. You do not have the clout or the cash to say, “I don’t care what you think”. Which means you’re middle management. You care about what the people above you think, what the people below you think…
Adventus is my newest resource geared around Advent. Advent is, if you do not know, means ‘Coming’ in Latin. This is why I used the Latin word Adventus as the title. Advent is the coming of Jesus into the world. Many Christians use the four Sundays and weeks of Advent to prepare and remember the real…
Every day is, or should be, Thanksgiving, but for teens it’s sometimes hard to be thankful during tough circumstances. So, what can you do to remind them of why they should be thankful? It starts with getting them out self-pity and getting their minds on others instead of themselves. Here are some ideas/projects/crafts that will…
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…
