This is day three of my twelve part series, using Jeff Goins new book, Real Artists Don’t Starve, to convince you, the local youth pastor, that you are an artist. You can catch up by starting here and then here. Why not grab the book and read long with me? Little did she know, how-…
I was at a Youth Specialties NYWC and I was sitting in a Doug Field’s breakout session and he said, “You don’t have to be original, beg, borrow and steal.” Wait, I didn’t have to come up with all this stuff myself? It was ok to steal ideas from other youth pastor and youth ministries? This…
You Still Have Time To make your grad gifts shine! Whether you are a youth pastor prepping for Grad Sunday or a parent just want to make graduation a little extra special, here are three ways to spice up the boring grad gift. I just finished the video that shows my completed grad gift boxes…
Making life-long followers of Jesus. It’s kind of the point of my blog here. Every idea, video, etc, is meant to encourage you to think long term. To change something about yourself, your program, or even your theology when it some to making disciples. I want you to become life-long disciple makers, not just more…
I’ve heard it said, “If people won’t pay for your time, your time isn’t worth anything.” That’s has been stuck in my head for a while and I decided to see if this is true. For the past seven years I have brought you the best content possible as an active, in the trenches youth…
I have been told, in various churches I’v served, that I could not do something, I could not use secular music I could not take kids to such and such movie I could not redecorate the room I could not do pool parties All of which I thought were stupid, but it wasn’t my call.…
Kids want to share how they feel about us and the ministry they are a part of, but too often we’re scared to ask. We think, if I just keep my head down and plan lots of stuff I’ll be alright and I won’t have to listen to any criticism. Is that what you really…
I wrote Transformed because I wanted kids to see themselves as works of art in progress. They are unfinished, but no less beautiful or valuable. In this three week series we cover the transformations of people like Paul, Peter, the woman at the well and more. We look at their lives before and…
Youth Ministry doesn’t get any better than a missions trip or camp. In fact, if I could do only two things, missions and camps are all I would do because of the impact they’ve had on my life. But, what is camp and missions trips without the downtime and the struggle of September through May? I…
We have two ways to travel, by trains or dune buggy. Trains are predictable. They have scheduled stops. You may even arrive on time but you have one problem, tracks. If you want to go “over there” you can’t. You have to stay on the tracks. One other thing. you are not the conductor. You…
