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Confessions of an Average Youth Minister

Compartmentalized Life

Most Christians tend to live a compartmentalized life. We let God into certain areas, and keep Him out of others. We are OK with giving God our spiritual time, but we want “our” time too. This object lesson is a com...

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Discussion Question Paper Wads

Lately I have been on a quest to get better group discussion and participation from my students. Tonight I am trying out a new game that I thought I would share. It is called Discussion Question Paper Wads. It is basically ju...

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Lego Ideas

I want to have a huge lego building event at my church where teams of students work together to transform our youth room into a habitable lego dwelling, at least for a few days. I have many students with piles of legos from the...

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Life-Sized Bop-It

Suddenly we got a new channel on our cable system called “The Hub.” I don’t know where it came from, but it has classic Transformers and G.I Joe cartoons, Fraggle Rock, and this interesting double dare-ish gam...

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Youth Lesson Idea: Infomercial

We are talking about being “counter culture” this month and last night was learning to be patient and not run after every new thing that you see. I opened with a conversation on “quick-fix” type products...

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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.

Compartmentalized Life

Discussion Question Paper Wads

Lego Ideas

Life-Sized Bop-It

Youth Lesson Idea: Infomercial

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