May

08

Intentional Leader starts with Intentional Growth

It’s a funny thing what you can go through in a week. Think about it for a second……….how many different experiences did you go through last week? Maybe you went through some experiences that you normally do but for some reason they were just different. For me, last week was all about leadership. I live [...]

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May

07

Discipline.

I have a growing, nagging, pain in my head and heart. It is one that seems to creep up on me and for some reason I cannot shake it this time. It is something that I have never really been good at. My parents would try but I would find some way to resist. Sorry [...]

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Apr

04

5 Characteristics of Student Leaders

There has been a growing observation in ministry over the past month for me about Student Leaders. It seems to be always be a mystery of what how a Student Leadership group/team, call it what you will, really makes the impact you desire it to make. It seems that in some sense it does, because [...]

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Mar

07

What moves you forward?

There are things in our life that move us forward. Things that excite us, destroy us, lift us, put us to sleep and many other actions that you can think of. It is part of life, I think, to have things in our life that make us move forward. I feel like if there is [...]

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Feb

20

Do you know what you are doing?

How would you do that?  That question has been coming into my head a lot lately. I am not really sure why. But it is something that I think can hold a lot of weight in one’s life. Here is my thought behind that question: If you don’t know how you would do something, how [...]

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Jan

30

Complacency

There is something in our youth ministry that we are dealing with that is frustrating at best. It is something that we can’t seem to figure out over and over. Complacency. Here is the definition of Complacency according to Merriam Webster:  self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies Does this scare [...]

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