Download Youth Ministry
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Reflections on Youth Ministry and Dropping My Son Off at College
This blog post, by me, originally appeared on the Download Youth Ministry blog. A few weeks ago my wife Heather and I drove away from the university campus we had just left our second son at, tears on both our faces, making the long drive home. Weren’t we just changing his diapers? Our football lineman…
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Skit Guys’ Family Camp movie review
The Skit Guys’ new movie, Family Camp, is a must see! Such a fun, family friendly film! The concept of the movie, a church family camp, is the perfect story for Tommy Woodard and Eddie James to shine. I’ll be honest, most faith-based movies rub me kind of wrong; they tend to be cheesy, predictable,…
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2021 Writing in Review
2021 is coming to a close … and it has gone by fast! I continue to have a lot of fun creating youth ministry resources. 2021 saw seven curriculum resources published and 29 game and/or media resources published, all through Download Youth Ministry. I also wrote an update to my chapter in the Youth Cartel’s…
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Christmas Party Game List
Over the last week, our student ministry has done both of our middle school and high school Christmas parties! For us, that means time to hang out, Christmas cookies, and a lot of group games! We decorate our gym with a lot of Christmas colored lights, Christmas music, and Christmas inflatables (giant Santas – stuff…
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My Christmas Resources!
I have a handful of Christmas resources that I have created – and a couple that Heather created with me – that may be useful during this time of year! The images below are all links to where they are located on the Download Youth Ministry store. Check them out! God With the Fearful is…
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2020 Writing in Review
2020 has had a lot of challenges … but it was a fun year for being published! I had a chapter in a book, saw sixteen curriculum resources release, and had nineteen games and other media type resources release. I should probably clarify that I did not create all of this in 2020; some of…
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Seven Year Teaching Plan
In the most recent episode of my podcast, “Kinda Interesting: Thoughts on Youth Ministry,” I talk about our seven year teaching plan. Essentially, I wanted to tackle three things with our Sunday morning teaching time over the seven years we have a student in our youth ministry (6th-12th grade); core truths that we really want…
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Tale of Tamar
Download Youth Ministry recently released a one-off message resource that I put together called Tale of Tamar. I’ll be honest, this is one of my all time favorite messages I have ever done. In the message I use the genealogy of Christ in Matthew 1 as a launching point, noting that the gospel is proclaimed…
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Exodus: Babies, Burning Bushes & Plagues, oh my!
My latest resource, a four week teaching series, went live over at Download Youth Ministry! I’m pretty excited about it; it was selected as an ‘Editor’s Choice’ AND Doug Fields gave it a recommendation. You can find it here. I had a LOT of fun putting this one together and teaching my way through it.…
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2019 Writing in Review
2019 was a big year for me! I have always loved writing, but my publishing efforts really went on hold during my four years of seminary. Once I graduated in 2017, I started slowly creating and submitting again, with a focus on curriculum for youth ministry. Those resources started dropping this past year; I actually…