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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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The $5 Youth Ministry

I haven’t spent much time in the “youth ministry” aisle of my local Christian bookstore lately. I guess there are a number of reasons. For a while there I wanted to refrain from all idea books because I was al...

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Forgotten God

I may be the one person under 40 who read, but wasn’t blown away by Francis Chan’s first book Crazy Love. I don’t know if it was just the place that I was in my life, or that I felt like Erwin McManus had been...

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Our Ambitions

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. If you want to know what a person’s story is about, just ask them what they want. If we don’t want anything, we are living boring stories, and if we want a Room...

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Actually Reading a Book

I started reading Donald Miller’s new book “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” this week and as soon as I started reading I found myself revitalized. It was then that I realized that I haven’t actually...

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Family Prayer Ideas (Prayer Chain)

Christian Appraisal Skit

Children’s Church: Worship on their level or just a way to keep parents sane?

A Publicists Nightmare

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.

Family Ministry Field Guide

The $5 Youth Ministry

Forgotten God

Our Ambitions

Actually Reading a Book

About Me

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