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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

Rhetoric

This is a response to Surreal’s comments on the “A Dream” and the “Powerful Words” posts. There are many things that I disagree with Obama about. I really think I am a Libertarian on economic issue...

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21 Century Sunday School

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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HD versus Standad Def

In my hotel there is an HD TV and some form of digital cable. I have never really sat and watched a football game on HD before. I had no clue what I was missing. I knew it was better, but until I saw it I had no clue how much b...

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Web Memories

I clicked a link to go to a web site just now and since I am downloading some video podcasts from iTunes it took the page about 4 seconds to load. Well, it was taking 4 seconds, I don’t know how long it would have taken t...

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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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