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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

Social Media Help for Parents

I am working my way through a newsletter/seminar type thing for parents about social media and their teens (or actually pre-teens too). I use Facebook and Twitter some, but I am just not a social network guy for anything that r...

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Social Media Study

This week I had a parent come in and ask me to help her set up Twitter. She wanted to know what was going on with her daughter, not in a helicopter parent sort of way, just in a curiosity sort of way. Anyway, that got me thinki...

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We are ministers not messiahs

—Attributed to Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador (1917-1980), possibly original to Bishop Ken Untener see the full poem text here: http://www.intervarsity.org/slj/article/1354

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Youth Lesson Activity: Character Sketch

Sometimes I am pleasantly shocked when it comes to teaching students. Actually, I am probably surprised more often than not. This week we were talking about the personality of Jesus and trying to figure out what we could learn ...

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Living in a False Idea

I love “This American Life.” If you asked me what was the best thing about smart phones the fact that I can get it beamed directly to my phone whenever I want it would make the top 5. The other day I was listening a...

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Good Friday Ideas

Social Media Help for Parents

Dual Pastor Dilemmas

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.

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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.

Social Media Help for Parents

Social Media Study

We are ministers not messiahs

Youth Lesson Activity: Character Sketch

Living in a False Idea

About Me

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