A friend of mine, Darren Sutton, has this great new resource out to help your youth ministry. Two Sides will guide you in determining what is best for youth youth ministry setting. Check it out!
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No Teenager Left Behind
This is a great resource from a friend of mine, Lenita Fix. If you work with teenagers, you need to get your hands on this. You can check it out at Everyday Youth Ministry resources.
#2 of 3: Confessions of a Failed Youth Minister
I have failed to love others. It’s not that I don’t love other people. I love lots of people. I love my family and close friends. I love the people who are part of my church and the teenagers in the youth ministry I lead. I love the people in previous churches and youth ministries. Jesus told the expert in religious law there is a second commandment equal to the greatest commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39).
I hate to admit it, but I have economized love. Continue reading
Kidmin Conference 2012
If you’re in children’s ministry you need to check out this conference. We all need to connect with other minsitry leaders. You can connect and grow at Kidmin. Get more information and register here: Kidmin Conference.
Great Resource for Youth Ministry Leaders
#1 of 3: Confessions of a Failed Youth Minister
I have failed. That’s the simplest way for me to say it. I have failed. I have failed to love God with all my heart, mind, and strength. I have failed to surrender myself wholly to God. I have failed to be obedient to the teachings of the Bible. I have failed to love others as God expects from me. I have failed to love my wife and children as they deserve. I have failed as a Christian. I have failed as a husband. I have failed as a father, an uncle, a brother, and a friend. I have failed as a youth minister. Continue reading
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Being a Team Player
Competition can be a great thing. Competition forces us to continually work on getting better. Competition challenges blasé attitudes. Competition can even encourage cooperative team effort. Competition can also belittle, undermine, and destroy. Let me give you an example. 
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Self-promotion vs. Ministry
I’ve tried this blogging thing before. Inevitably, I end up clearing and deleting my blog. Maybe it’s because I have feelings of inadequacy. Maybe it’s because I just want someone to value my opinion. Maybe my goal in writing is to somehow validate my own importance. On the other hand, it could be I just want to have an influence in the lives of other ministry leaders, but fail to market myself effectively. Continue reading
The Cross
It stands alone in obscurity.
Seen yet not really noticed.
One by one we pass by
While the Cross calls simply, “Come!”
Come to the foot of the Cross.
Bow at the foot of the Cross.
Lay at the foot of the Cross.
Come, simply come.
Holding back from a distance,
The silence thundering in my ears,
My heart’s trying to withstand
While the Cross calls simply, “Come!”
Come to the foot of the Cross.
Bow at the foot of the Cross.
Lay at the foot of the Cross.
Come, simply come.
Here at the foot of the Cross
I have given up my life
To the One who gave up His.
To the Cross I simply come.
I come to the foot of the Cross.
I bow at the foot of the Cross.
I lay at the foot of the Cross.
I come.