Is Reaching Too Many Sinners Hurting Your Youth Ministry?

Is Reaching Too Many Sinners Hurting Your Youth Ministry?

On it’s face it sounds like a stupid question. “Of course we should be reaching sinners, that is what the church is for!” But I have had too much experience in reaching sinners to know that too many saints or too many sinners changes the programming...
Healthy Ministers Part 4: Redeeming Your Wounds

Healthy Ministers Part 4: Redeeming Your Wounds

In my last post I shared about about Peter Marsh’s system of creating three piles to help families deal with their junk. The three piles are Keep, Sell, and Throw Away. Yesterday I focused on the hurts we can keep that won’t hurt us in the long run. The...

Thursday Morning Quarterback : How To Deal With Angry Parents

  It’s Thursday and maybe you had some drama in your youth program last night. Did I say maybe? There’s always something going, sometimes it’s big, sometimes it’s small, and sometimes it’s nuclear, like an angry parent.  I have had...