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Accomplishing More In 2017
New year, new you. “I am going to be better this year because I will ______.” Everyone has resolutions, and to be honest most of us have already given a message to our students about how to make New...
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Your New Year’s Resolution: Fail More!
Every year, millions of people make New Year’s resolutions in order to better their lives, get in shape, or be more productive. They typically have something to do with achieving more and gaining...
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Time Management Tricks
Too often it seems like a day, then a week, then a month, and so on flies by. If you are like me and serving in ministry it can seem as if there are not enough hours in a day to figure out how to get...
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Behind the Ministry: Timothy L. Cruz
Jared Elrod started this great blog series called “Behind the Ministry” to highlight youth workers who are doing some amazing things in their church, youth ministry, and in their communities. If you’d...
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A Practical Post About Productivity
Prepare a message for Sunday. Send out the weekly parent email. Follow up with visitors from last week. Touch base with adult volunteers. Prepare another message for Wednesday. Design graphics for an...
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All I Need is One!
A new year has arrived and the anxiety of not creating resolutions is just as prevalent as the edginess of creating the perfect resolutions. We find ourselves vacillating on the biblical justifications...
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WHY ARE YOU HITTING YOURSELF? Dealing with Micro Managers
We all know the time-honored phrase and what accompanies it, “Why are you hitting yourself?” It is repeated by older siblings, classmates and others as they grab our hand, overpower us, and beat us...
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THERE IS SOMETHING THAT SUCCESS CANNOT TEACH YOU
On the night before my wedding my phone rang and I knew it wasn’t good before the person even started talking. The week had been so fun; my groomsmen all stayed at my house, we golfed, we surfed, we...
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Context is Key
Over the years youth ministry has become more and more advanced. We now have more research than ever that can show us what is working in youth ministry, what isn’t and where we can improve. We now have...
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5 Things You Should Know About Self Harm
“Today was a great day,” Aaron thought as he pressed the razor blade into his forearm. He watched the blood slowly pool in the wound and then drip around his arm onto the cement floor. “At least it...
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The Parent Perspective
I have been diving into the recently released Barna study, “The State of Youth Ministry.” I’ve gone over every piece of data several times as I’m attempting to make sense of where we are at...
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An Interview with Trip Lee
Maina Mwaura chats with Rapper, Author, and Pastor Trip Lee: Check out more about Trip online at: builttobrag.com MAINA MWAURA loves to guide student leaders. He is the husband of Tiffiney and has a...
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Joshua’s Big Audacious Prayer
I recently finished up studying through the book of Joshua. While reading through this book, I found myself spending a little extra time contrasting chapters 9 and 10. I found the words of Joshua 9:14...
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Do You Want to Get Well? Handling Ministry Disappointments & Pain
I walked into my favorite coffee shop planning to finish up some conference material and spotted a good friend. He has prayed with me and over me on several occasions. He is that church leader that...
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Book Recap and Review: “Teaching the Next Generations”
TITLE: Teaching the Next Generations: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching Christian Formation AUTHOR: Terry Linhart PUBLISHER: Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016, (352 pages). It has been often said...
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A Culture of Freelance Relationships
A recent article entitled “Sexual Freelancing in the Gig Economy” appeared in the New York Times. Its premise is this: economics influences dating. The fact that we prefer a Netflix binge nowadays to...
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5 Tips for Training Volunteers When You’re Lacking in the Budget Department
Whether you’re a lead youth worker or a pastor of a smaller church with a volunteer-led youth ministry, one thing you need to be thinking about is making sure your volunteers are able to grow and...
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I Have A Dream: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We join together in remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the great work he was a part of, and the great work that is still yet to be done in our world today. As my good friend and founder of Be The...
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Eschatology and Youth Ministry – Part 1
At NYWC 2016, Mark Matlock said “there are three questions youth come to youth group for. Can I have sex? What happens during the end times? Can I have sex during the end times?” For many of us,...
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Help Your Team Achieve By Eliminating Barriers
Could we be trying so hard to get things going, we may become overwhelmed, along with our team and our people? Maybe it’s time focus on what is keeping you and your team from being fully activated....
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