I was dreading 2020 months before it even got here. I’m not a prophet. I had no idea what was going to happen, I was just dreading the over use of “2020 vision” in everything from marketing, to business plans,...

My town has ants again. The temperatures have been in the 90’s all week. I should have seen it coming. I threw out a plate of cookies this morning because ants were throwing a party under the plastic I had...

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Last night while I was teaching my life group, I asked my boys a question and got absolutely no response. It was a pretty basic question. No response. The section of the lesson was about reaching out to people around us...

Each week parents are sending desserts with their boys to Life Group. I got to where I couldn’t remember if somebody said they were bringing it. I always had a box cookie mix I could make in a pinch, but...

Saw this blog post over at DownLoadYouthMinistry.com by Justin Knowles. He wrote a brilliant post about why you may see youth staff not hanging out with students. Strategic youth workers will do what he does. I’m posting an excerpt from...

Got a text message this morning that really made my day. My small group boys from last year are now in a college-age small group. Their leader contacted me today to meet up to talk about them. I love this...

My Life Group students all graduated last year. This year I’m back to teaching Freshmen. This week we went to the park for our lesson. Afterward, they ran around the field pushing each other over and being very rough. All...