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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

John Hughes: Narrator of Our Generation

I still can’t believe that John Hughes passed away. This man was the writer of what I was feeling and the creator of most of my fantasies about becoming cool. For a nerdy guy like me Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Say A...

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SNES

Long ago I gave my old SNES to my brother-in-law (he was young at the time). Well recently Nathan has developed a love for all things Mario so this weekend I brought my old Super Nintendo Entertainment System home and hooked it...

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Captain America: The Anti-antihero.

Our Review 4 / 5 - Very Good

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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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More of My Ego

Loyal Readers will remember that I had some ideas published in a book a while back. This week I got a package from Group containing the fixed CD’s that went with my free copies. (they had left out one of my videos). From ...

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We’re All Born This Way

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.

John Hughes: Narrator of Our Generation

SNES

Captain America: The Anti-antihero.

Actually Reading a Book

More of My Ego

About Me

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