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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

It’s been too long

It has been too long to really come up with a good explanation of why it has been so long. I guess it has been a combination of things. I got an Android tablet a while back and that has sort of changed the way that I do computi...

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Moving Day

Today was moving day for us. Our new church sent down a couple of guys and then people from our town and old church came to help us finish packing and load up. That makes for this slightly weird blend of people, but it all work...

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Finally Time for Goodbyes

It has been 4 months since I resigned (was fired) from my old church. In all of that time I knew that it would eventually be time to say goodbye to this town and all of these people. When people asked us about leaving I would a...

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My Treasure Hunt

Before my sister left to go off on the mission field she gave me a bunch of stuff from our grandmother’s house that she had been keeping. It was like 3 boxes and a briefcase. The briefcase, this black thing with a 3 numbe...

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Nostalgic

I have been spending the past couple of nights going back through the “uncategorized” entries here at Nailscars.com. I have picked out a few observations. One of the biggest ones is that I have been in a very creati...

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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.

It’s been too long

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My Treasure Hunt

Nostalgic

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