Dad is making progress and that is such a good thing.  He has been home now for almost a week and things are going pretty good.  While I was ICU, one day, dad was telling all of the nurses and anyone that would listen that he was working with Greg Stier to bring a Dare 2 Share event to Des [...]

I love being a Youth Pastor.  I love helping to lead students into a deeper relationship with Christ and see them start to live that out.  A little over a week ago I had the opportunity to meet one of my students friends.  We were playing disc golf inside at the church and I got a text saying, “Hey do [...]

“Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo. So funny.

I became a huge fan of Iron Man when the first one came out in 2008.  It is still one of my favorite movies in my collection today.  I always find it interesting the spiritual allegories we find in movies.  Sometimes it’s a stretch to name them allegories but sometimes they just jump off the screen at you.  The whole [...]

I frequent Pastor2Youth with is an online resource for Youth Pastor’s. I have been a member on the forums for about 5 years now. I have developed some good friendships and it has become a place that acts as a good sounding board for me with different ideas and thoughts on ministry. It is a great resource that is available [...]

I wanted to make you, as my readers, aware of a new page here on my blog. At the top left of the screen you’ll notice the pages ‘Home’, ‘About’, ‘Disc Golf’ and the newest one ‘My Songs‘. If you will click on any of those you will go to that page. I am excited and nervous about my page [...]

I was thinking tonight about the post I wrote earlier today on using worship in student ministry. I thought of a few more things I would like to ad so I thought I would just a new post altogether. My additions are below; Reading music: Reading music is an interesting journey. Lead sheets (chord charts) are a great way to [...]

This is the front of the postcard our students will be getting this week letting them know our ministry for the school year is about to end.  I like them.  I have already had a few requests from some other youth pastor’s to use it.  If you would like the file let me know.

I recently had a question throw at my through twitter about how I do our student worship team within our student ministry. It is a great question and as I have thought about it more it makes for a great blog post. Here are my thoughts on leading a worship team within our student ministry. Music has always played a [...]