Confessions Of A Youth Ministry Hype Junkie

Confessions Of A Youth Ministry Hype Junkie

  I’ve struggled with this of late. I tend to lean to the hype side of things. O.k, I ‘m a hype junkie. I want things to be big and exciting. But what happens when you drop a hype junkie into a homey youth ministry? Hype, to me, is the big worship...
4 Parallel Principles For Escaping The Youth Ministry Rip Tide

4 Parallel Principles For Escaping The Youth Ministry Rip Tide

  You don’t know it’s happening until it’s happening, and it was happening to me. I had heard about rip currents in Florida and now I was caught in one. I was slowly being dragged out t0 sea. I started to panic, then I remembered my escape, swim...
Three Keys To Good Mentoring Practices From This Mel Gibson Movie

Three Keys To Good Mentoring Practices From This Mel Gibson Movie

This is one of my favorite Mel Gibson movies, after Mad Max, Road Warrior, and the Lethal Weapon series is Man Without A Face directed by Mel Gibson. Kidding aside, this is my favorite dramatic role by Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson plays a scarred, inwardly and outwardly,...
Inspiring Movies About Youth Ministry Part 2

Inspiring Movies About Youth Ministry Part 2

A movie does not need to be Christian to be about youth ministry. What makes a movie about youth ministry? There are kids who have problems. There are caring adults who push through the teens hard exterior. There is a moment in the movie that changes or at least...

Inspiring Movies About Youth Ministry Part 1

Source When I think about quitting youth ministry, I often think back over movies about teachers and the difficulties they face since they don’t make movies about youth pastors. This clip is of a 60’s movie called To Sir With Love starring Sidney Pontier....