Living the fantasy
As a youth pastor for 15 years now I can say that some days it is hard to believe the fantasy that all this stuff we do actually matters.
Confessions of an Average Youth Minister
In The Spotlight
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Make Your Own Foam Party
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My Advice for Life (A Drawing While Teaching Lesson)
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Social Media Help for Parents
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Squishy Circuits: An electric lesson for younger youth and children
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Youth Group Lesson Plan: Gross, Weird, True
Games
Make Your Own Foam Party
Over the years I have come up with many different youth ideas. Most of them are epic, I mean, epic ideas, but when I start to think about all of the stuff that it takes to make them come to reality I realize that they probably aren’t the best use of my time. At my […]
Youth Ideas
My Advice for Life (A Drawing While Teaching Lesson)
This summer I have been working on a series of lessons based around drawings. To kick that off I did this lesson you see here. There is something almost mantra like about the opening to me. I wrote it, so it is weird to say, but it is a very cool way of pouring advice […]
Teen Culture
Social Media Help for Parents
I am working my way through a newsletter/seminar type thing for parents about social media and their teens (or actually pre-teens too). I use Facebook and Twitter some, but I am just not a social network guy for anything that restricts my word count. But I have been trying to dig through and pick up […]
Object Lessons
Squishy Circuits: An electric lesson for younger youth and children
The Idea: Use a simple circuit to light up some LEDs using “squishy circuits” to talk about sharing God’s love with others. What are “squishy circuits” you ask? Squishy circuits are two specific types of homemade dough that you can use to create simple electrical circuits. You will need to create both a conductive dough […]
Complete Series
Youth Group Lesson Plan: Gross, Weird, True
Download Gross, Weird, True Complete (ZIP) Download Gross, Weird, True Non-Editable (ZIP) (Does not include Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign files) Download Gross, Weird, True Lessons (PDF) Gross, Weird, True is a 4-week youth group Bible study that looks at some of the strange stories and commands in the Bible. It includes instructions on how to incorporate […]
Seeing the Big Picture: Little things Add up
As part of our Faithcraft (Minecraft and Lego inspired Bible study) I did this little video. It is just a stop-motion project of me building this small ship. Well, it is actually a stop motion video of me tearing this ship apar...
Minecraft Bible Study for Kids: Nehemiah
I am working on a new Minecraft Bible study. Actually we are in the middle of it and I am writing it as we go along. When it is all said and done it will be a 4 week series about building your faith. I hope to add it as a serie...
Friendship Faithcraft
We are doing a series for kids over the next 4 weeks based off of Minecraft and Lego Bricks. It is all about “building” our faith so we are doing lots of little building excercises. This first week I wanted an intro...
Make Your Own Foam Party
Over the years I have come up with many different youth ideas. Most of them are epic, I mean, epic ideas, but when I start to think about all of the stuff that it takes to make them come to reality I realize that they probably ...
