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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

Books I am Engaging

I am really in a book reading mode right now, and I have a bunch of stuff from books that I could share, but I don’t know how much you guys want a book report. I just think it is funny that I haven’t read anything s...

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Love

This has been a crazy couple of days. Our office has been a hive of activity as people have been putting the finishing touches on our big move. I still don’t have a real desk, but I am digging my two folding tables and their ...

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The Kite Runner

Wow, lots of stuff to write about tonight. I finished an Audio Book today! There is always a whole lot of excitement and sadness when I finish a book. I love to get to the end of the story, but with an audio book you have spent...

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People in the Margins

I don’t know if I have plugged Donald Miller’s book Searching for God Knows What lately, but I have been reading it and he says some really amazing things about the nature of who we are as people. I’m not sure if he speak...

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Searching for God Knows What

I felt very much like a real writer today. I spent the afternoon sitting in or local coffee shop sipping way to expensive coffee and eating a toasted bagel while listening to my MP3 and working on church stuff. I have been in t...

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Good Friday Ideas

Squishy Circuits: An electric lesson for younger youth and children

Resurrection Snacks?

It’s been too long

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.

Books I am Engaging

Love

The Kite Runner

People in the Margins

Searching for God Knows What

About Me

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