The Divine Crash

The month of October was Pastor’s Appreciation Month. (P.A.M) and to celebrate the youth group kids made me my favorite food.  Deviled Eggs!! They presented them to me in church on plates. They made 4 dozen of them.  I immediately started eating them. At various times during the service I ate an egg.  They were [...]

Here is talk two from my camp meeting week.  Feel free to listen to the teaching at the bottom of the post or download on iTunes.

I spent a week at a youth camp outside of Philadelphia.  It was an awesome experience and the next few posts will be my recordings and notes from that camp.  You can check out the camp website here, and my podcasts on iTunes here.  Don’t forget, my notes are just that, they may not make [...]

Does youth ministry need more stuff? Or does youth ministry need better relationships.

Recently I was asked to write a blog as a “contributing author” on another website called “called to youth ministry”  They are a new site helping youth workers.  I am honored to help them and I guess this now makes me “internet-famous?” Either way here is what I wrote for them, but if you are [...]

This weekend I wasn’t at Tanoma to preach, I left the congregation in the very capable leadership of the Church’s lay leader.  Instead I took my youth and about 100 other youth to Camp Jumonville for the annual “Winter Ski Retreat!”  Our theme was “Lift” and we start by watching the movie “Up!”  Each speaker [...]

Proverbs 22:6 says
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
What happens when that doesn’t happen? What happens when I as a youth worker do all in my power to make sure that by the time a youth graduates from youth group they know they way they [...]

A lot of times in all jobs people get burned out and tired of doing what they do.  Doctors get tired of being a doctor and lawyers get tired of being a lawyer.  Pastors and youth pastors get tired of what they do too.  Often, this happens because a person forgets why they started or they [...]