Do you remember Gus Griswald (Griswold) from the cartoon Recess? Gus was a worry worry wart of sorts. In one episode he earned the nick-name Safety Man from the kindergarteners he had to watch during the recess time. Gus spent the whole episode saving the kindergartners from stuff kids do and a few…
To my YouTube Subscribers, here is your free cartoon to use as you please. For those who are not subscribers, watch my show The Tuesday Panic below and then download the cartoon. Onward. As I say in the title, I was a pretty bad procrastinator. I would leave things to the last minute and then…
I have been to many church and camp altars. I have made public expressions of faith and commitment at the front of the church “in front f God and everyone”. I have experienced powerful moves of God at the front of the church, but there is nothing sacred about the front of the church. God uses all…
The worst example of a boss, in my opinion, is Bill Lumbergh from the movie Office Space. He is a coffee sipping, pencil pushing, disengaged, visionless knucklehead and some of you work for him or someone like him. It’s appropriate to scream out loud if you’ve just realized that. If you have a boss,…
Whether we like it or not, our youth ministry is a brand. It’s how our parents, church, kids, and community sees us. Does your youth ministry have a logo? Do you slap it on everything? That is called branding. Like cowboys burning their ranches name or symbol into their cattle in case they ever…
You’ll have to pardon me this morning if my words seem incoherent, last night at youth there were rubber chickens, a water fight between a leader and a student, a message including Dragon Ball Z, and I think there was prayer, it’s all a bit blurry after that. I think I blacked out. Onward. I…
Yesterday I shared a conversion I had at a game store that sold me on a hobby I was interested in. As a youth pastor who focuses, (some say obsess) over the process of discipleship, I knew what was happening to me, I was being evangelized and offered the opportunity to be discipled in the Warhammer 40k…
Super-bug viruses are powerful and deadly. Doctors are frantically trying to keep up with how it spreads, where it is spreading, and it’s make up to come up with a shot that will counteract it. Equally as powerful and deadly is the super bug called Negativity and it can take team out quick. Let’s…
Have you ever come back from a retreat, camp, or event where God moved powerfully and then were met with resistance when asking kids to share their experience? Yeah, I’ve been there too, but recently I have tried to head off the resistance with a simple plea to those who went to our…
Tis’ the season for buzzer beaters. I love watching buzzer beaters, but I don’t want to ever be in a situation where the game is down to one shot. Like this latest one. The clock is always ticking in youth ministry (and life) the clock in ticking until our seniors graduate from our ministry. …
