Gospel or Gimmick?

All of us do certain things to pull teens in to our ministries? Right? I guess I could be wrong about that too, but that’s the hunch I’m going to run with. Maybe before I jump into where I’m going, I will ask if you remember the book “The Purpose-Driven Youth...

Give Me Sunday

Give me Sunday! It’s been a while since I’ve done any writing and I’ve been storing a blog post in my head for awhile. We had our second conference call about 6 weeks ago and the nature of our call was to discuss different ways that we guard our lives. We talked about...

Getting the Word Out

I really don’t like listening to myself nor do I like to watch videos of myself, but I do enjoy sharing ideas and throwing out stuff for discussion so in light of that, I’ll overlook my disdain for viewing myself and say that most of this post’s content comes in...

Traction

A year ago, I went to a graduation party for one of our high school seniors and I parked my wife’s car on the dirt road that was in front of this student’s house. Well, my wife and daughter got out of the car and walked in but I was convinced I could get a little...

Got Gas? Got Funds? Get ‘Em!

Many youth ministries have budgets for books, curriculum and other miscellaneous items but few have the funds to underwrite every event, camp or missions trip. (That might be a good thing by the way.) Many of us have to find creative ways to fundraise. For me, my goal...