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Letting Go of the Wheel
Something unthinkable happened recently. For the first time in 13 years of ministry, my group went to camp without me. I wasn’t sick. I wasn’t burned out. Around the same time I started this blog, God...
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Walking the Walk – Part One
We in the youth ministry field often refer to what we do as walking alongside teens through life. This sometimes shorts out a neuron for our supervisors who want us in the office 9-5 doing some kind of...
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Walking the Walk – Part Two
As promised last month, here are more ministry stories of walking beside our young friends from teens to their thirties and beyond. My wife and I met and began walks with many teens while...
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Walking the Walk – Part Three
Playing with babies. As I sat on the floor pretending I was in a sea of lava with a four-year old jumping over me from couch to chair, I thought, “This is youth ministry?” I recently visited several of...
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House Building
“House building?!? I thought this was a youth ministry blog, not the DIY channel.” Building an effective ministry is a lot like building a house and we’ll look at how today. Before starting on the...
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Teenagers are Like Velociraptors
“Teenagers are like velociraptors.” I said this at a training recently and was met with nervous laughter. Before I could expound, one of my students offered, “Because they’re always hungry?” While...
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