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Human Arrogance
I had an interesting conversation with one of my High School Students about the influence teenagers have on culture. It was her belief that teenagers set the standards for culture. They have more influence on culture than any other age group. Certainly when it comes to pop culture there is some truth to what she [...]
A Needed Vacation
Recently my family and I took a much needed vacation which is why it has been a little longer since the last newsletter. You know how everyone comes back from vacation tired and speaks of needing a vacation from the vacation. Well, we actually made that part of [...]
The Boundaries of Truth
I have two dogs, a Black Lab and a golden Retriever. The lab we have had since the time it was a pup. He now weighs close to 100lbs. When he was a pup we had to lay down some boundaries. There were certain things we wanted Crash [...]
How to Evaluate Your Ministry
Evaluating your ministry can be difficult and there are many who would rather not evaluate at all because it feels “unspiritual”. The truth is we all evaluate our ministries based on our own ministry values whether we have taken the time to write them down or not. Does it not make sense to actually write [...]
Phones Are From Satan, but God Seems To Use Them
I hate phone calls, I can sometimes be found in my office spewing insults at the phone. It’s kind of embarrassing to be honest. Last week I took the time to make a phone call. It is not something I do all the time, but if I know a student is struggling or there is [...]
Preaching Jesus
God designed me as a coach. I have coached volleyball, basketball, and football at the high school level. My tendencies in youth ministry are to coach. It comes so naturally to me that I have to be very aware that I am not coaching in situations that require something of a different approach. One of [...]
Social Networking and Ministry: Are students being socially handycapped?
One of the complaints I have heard most about social networking is that it is impacting students ability to interact socially. Some of these complaints are the result of observing certain students who do appear to be socially handicapped. That said it seems to me based only on my own observations that the students who [...]
Doing it Right
Last night after youth group two students got in a car accident on the way home. Youth ministry is kind of weird. We are dealing with minors, but most likely we don’t check them in and out of our programs. Even if we do there is a sense of independence, they find there own rides [...]
When Bad Days Happen
Everyone has them. Sometimes they are caused by some kid having a bad attitude, sometimes they are caused by me having a bad attitude. There are still other times when it isn’t about an attitude at all. I had one of those day on Sunday. My aunt was in town which changed by schedule a [...]
Looking for a job
I have been in transition since January. The church I attempted to plant didn’t take root. My future in ministry has been in limbo for about 6 months. It wasn’t that I was going to quit doing ministry as much as what kind of ministry I was going to do. After a long process of [...]
