Mar

26

Distracted.

There is a growing thought and passion in my heart as I continue my work as a youth pastor. The thought is whether or not we are teaching and living the right thing? As I begin to think about the future and about the direction of our youth ministry as well as listening to both [...]

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Mar

21

How do you cast vision?

Vision. It is a key to ministry and to life. It is what moves us from where we are, to where we go in the future. It is the key to guide volunteers to where they help lead students. It is a key to getting our lives from where we are to where we want [...]

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Mar

21

A picture perfect moment…

Have you ever had one? A picture perfect moment? One that you wish you could freeze and keep for all of time? I had one of those moments on Saturday. As I was coming back from cleaning my car and getting a new picture frame, I got a text from a friend of mine wanting [...]

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Mar

15

The beginning of a new focus

It has always been interesting thinking about the different views of who Jesus was supposed to be. A soldier, a king, a deliverer, an over thrower. It always seemed like Jesus or the Messiah was supposed to be this person that would come and swoop down and mess everything that is in place up and [...]

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Mar

14

Francis Chan, Vacation and some Saltines

If you have ever had the chance to listen to Francis Chan speak, you no doubtfully have probably heard his famous Salt sermon. Now I am not knocking on Francis Chan at all, because he is completely right. I had the opportunity to listen to him speak this past summer at the NACC in Indy. My first [...]

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Mar

10

losing.

It is a funny thing how we talk to students about what can happen after they come back from a trip. They come back from MOVE, they come back from a missions trip, they come back from a weekend retreat and we always tell them that Satan is going to be coming after them really [...]

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