Live Life Learning

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 [...]

There is a constant fear in my head. One that seems to be coming to the forefront on my brain as I continue in my line of work. In Student Ministry, we give a lot of responsibility and expectation to a lot of people. We have volunteers that we lead, empower, encourage and release. However [...]

Growing up, I didn’t have a regular youth minister until I was in High School. It was lead by volunteers of all shapes and sizes and egos. At one point, we joined with another church’s youth group to join in there programming. Not that this was a bad thing,( although the program we went too [...]

” My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer  There has been a lot of conversation that I have had with students throughout the short time I have been in full time ministry that have to deal with the idea [...]

Over the weekend, I had the ability to host a Student Leadership Retreat at my new house. It was an absolutely awesome time having some great students and some great leaders come to talk about leadership.  We spent the weekend talking about a few different leadership principles that came from Andy Stanley. The Next Generation [...]

I have never really thought about the idea of CHANGE that much. Well, let me rephrase that, I have never really thought about a process for change. For some reason I have always thought that CHANGE happens on a dime. Right? You have been smoking for 25 years and on a dime you know you [...]