Is Your Youth Group A Life Changing Community?

Is Your Youth Group A Life Changing Community?

I recently watch Katy Perry accept an award from the LGBT community, and what she said in the the first 30 seconds broke my heart. As one who has served the church for 27 years, I would have loved if Katy was talking about The Church. There’s no other community...
How To Double Your Youth Group Attendance In One Year

How To Double Your Youth Group Attendance In One Year

If you are planning on on being at your church for only a year, then doubling it should be easy, but you have to hurry. Throw lot’s of party’s and events. Games, more games,  and game nights. Keep your messages to ten minutes tops. Do not challenge anyone...
Lent Day 13: Even Now

Lent Day 13: Even Now

“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Joel 2:12 Even now. Saying this phrase transports me to the 80’s when I heard Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band sing it. It’s a song about love and...
Invest, Invest, Invest and Then…

Invest, Invest, Invest and Then…

Many try to withdraw from bank accounts where they have not invested and wonder why they’re told “insufficient funds”. It’s simple, we haven’t invested or haven’t invested enough. What do I mean by invested? I mean we haven’t...
The Anxious Rantings Of A Burnt Out Youth Pastor

The Anxious Rantings Of A Burnt Out Youth Pastor

“I just want to get out alive” I told myself before a recent youth meeting. That’s when I knew it, I mean I saw it coming, I just couldn’t stop it. Burn out. I had yelled, “Why does any of it matter. ” towards, not at, my wife that...