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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

I Love a Good Keyboard Shortcut Joke

I saw this pic over at Gizmodo and it made me laugh. Apparently the original one is the favorite cause he also gets a sword.

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App Store

Is there anything more fun than having a iTunes gift card a whole bunch of apps to try. I picked up “Balloonamals” and “First Words and Home” for Nathan and “Spider” for me. The cool thing ab...

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This past Sunday our college and career class did something pretty neat. We have a student who is working for a year in South Korea. She is going to class, playing soccer, and teaching Sunday school. Anyway, her class decided t...

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Troubleshooting

The internet is a darn cool place. I mean it has its faults, but with Google it can be a wealth of information. When I am having trouble with something computer related like most people the first place I turn is to Google. It i...

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5 Year Old Fitted with Carbon Fiber Legs

There are few things lately that have made me smile as much as the smile on this little girls face. She seems so amazingly happy, and why shouldn’t she be, she has gone from struggling to walk to having the freedom to run...

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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.

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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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