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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

Family Ministry Field Guide

During this interim (read unemployed) time I have been doing a great deal of praying and thinking about ministry. One of the things that I keep coming back to is the notion of family based student ministry. A few weeks ago I wa...

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Student Parent Minister

Like most youth pastors I have spent a great deal of time trying to figure out the best way to minister to the parents of my students. Parent ministry is important because parents are the most important spiritual influence on t...

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Oh yeah

Tonight was a good night for me. It was just one of those nights when I could feel the presence of God and when I felt like I was really just letting him speak through me. We are in a series on the family and because I am tryin...

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Divorce

Tomorrow night we are turning our discussion of the family to God’s intended plan for marriage. While it is generally easy in Christian circles to say that God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve, it is a whole differ...

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Parents the Missing Piece of Youth Ministry

I am thinking about refining my title. Right now I am actually an associate pastor, but the title that I tell people is youth minister. The problem is that ministering to youth should only be half of my job (of course right now...

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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.

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Student Parent Minister

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Divorce

Parents the Missing Piece of Youth Ministry

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