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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

Let’s Get Cheesy

While some of my students are really into our story series there are others who are getting a little tired of it. You can just see it in their eyes. So I tried to come up with a way to spice up the story this week. I thought it...

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Love is Isaiah 53

I saw a heart made of words on the net today and thought I would see if I could make something similar. This is what I came up with. Just to talk about my process a bit, the cross at the bottom is there just because the word &#...

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Christmas Background Video

I was looking for moving videos to display behind the lyrics of our Christmas songs and couldn’t find much that I liked. So I pulled a Juice Drop from Digital Juice and took it apart a bit and then animated it in After Ef...

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Worship Graphics

Check out Kinetic Faith for some free graphics and video for worship. From their website: KineticFaith.com is a clearinghouse for the graphic and video design work used at our church.We are making all this content available for...

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About Me

I don’t have all of the answers and some weeks it feels like I don’t have any of the answers. I forget students names sometimes and say stupid things that hurt their feelings. I often find a good word picture or object lesson and build the lesson off of that instead of the other way around. I have put the finishing touches on a Wednesday night Bible study on Wednesday more times than I can count. I don’t always pray as much as I should and I never study as much as I should. I try every new youth ministry model that comes from the “experts” and I have had at least 3 mission statements over the past 5 years.

But I love students ministry. I love watching teenagers as they serve God. I love to see them worship and forget about themselves for a while. I love seeing someone wake up to the love of God if only for a little while. I love to see them out serving their community and sharing the love of Christ with others. I love to be a part of their lives and I love seeing the world through their eyes. Like I said, I’m an average youth pastor.

About Nailscars.com

For over 10 years now I have been trying to add creative ideas for use in the local church. In the early days Nailscars.com was just a place to publish some scripts, but it has become a collection of creative ministry resources for youth ministry and worship.

I began writing a blog more to process my own thoughts more than anything else. As I started writing the comments that I got back from people amazed me. As I was honest with my struggles most of them would write and say “Thank you.” “It is just nice to know someone else struggles with these same things,” was a common response.

So this has become a place where I share the struggles and successes of being in youth ministry. I hope that you find something that God can use in your life and ministry.

Let’s Get Cheesy

Love is Isaiah 53

Christmas Background Video

Worship Graphics

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