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Get my new book for 85% off!!!
This weekend Simply Youth Ministry is doing a massive sale on their digital books … including MINE! If you act fast you can get it for less than two bucks. That’s crazy. It’s a youth ministry book, but honestly, I wrote it for everyone with some specific illustrations that relate to ministry workers. Here’s the…
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Thoughts on writing
I love to write. I’ve written dozens of articles, had a column, contributed to two books, and blogged somewhat regularly for years. Even as child I would compose stories. As a teenager I kept a journal and was known for my short stories. In college I wrote scripts that were always well received. I am…
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Incarcerated Teens (my latest article)
The final entry in my three part series on ministering to adolescents facing court and/or incarceration went live today over at YouthMinistry.com! It was a challenging series for me to write; the first one dealt with ministry to young people facing a judge from the perspective of the youth worker, the second from the perspective…
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40/40/40 sale at Simply Youth Ministry happening NOW
It’s youth ministry’s BIGGEST sale of the year – the 40/40/40 sale at Simply Youth Ministry! 40% or more off TONS of resources, many others for sale as well, 40 FREE backgrounds just for clicking through … and all this happens for just 40 hours starting today. Click on the images above to…
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Guilty! (my latest article)
The second in my three part series on ministering to students facing court and/or incarceration went live today over at YouthMinistry.com. It was by far the hardest of the three to write, mostly because of how personal it is. I hope it can be a benefit to others. You can read the whole thing here.…
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Order in the Court (my latest article)
My latest article just went live over at Simply Youth Ministry. It’s actually the first in a three part series that will trickle out over the next couple months. It’s something I’ve wanted to write about for a while simply because of my own experiences with ministering to teens facing trials and convictions, as well…
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A Beautiful Mess | Mark Oestricher
I finished reading Mark Oestricher’s new book, ‘A Beautiful Mess,’ this afternoon. It’s not huge, so it really only took an hour or so to read, but I really love it. In a lot of ways, it felt like a natural progression from his book ‘Youth Ministry 3.0’, which I also love. I found myself…
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Status Drama (my latest article)
My latest article just went live over at Simply Youth Ministry; you can find it here. Kind of a fun memory (after the fact!) from our 2011 middle school winter retreat. Read it and let me know what you think! We loaded up several 15-passenger vans and hit the road for what should have been…
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Living out God’s purposes: Worship (11/6/11)
We were in week five of a five week series entitled ‘Living out God’s purposes’ in Student Quest this week. It’s actually centered around our student ministry purpose statement, ‘We are real people, in love with a real God, making a real difference in the world.’ That statement contains five values, or purposes: Real People: Fellowship…
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Living out God’s purposes: Discover your shape for serving (10/30/11)
We were in week four of a five week series entitled ‘Living out God’s purposes’ in Student Quest this week. It’s actually centered around our student ministry purpose statement, ‘We are real people, in love with a real God, making a real difference in the world.’ That statement contains five values, or purposes: Real People: Fellowship…