Worship Videos

Jehovah Jireh

Abraham on the way to sacrifice Isaac answered his son’s question about the sacrifice by saying, “The Lord will Provide”. After God spared Isaac and provided a ram instead Abraham named the place Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will provide. Each of us has something that we are searching for. This video walks through some of those things and answers each one of them with this truth: The Lord will provide!

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God Promises

God always keeps His promises. Isn’t it amazing to think about that. This video is a collection of promises that are found in the Bible. Verses included: 1 John 2:25; Zephaniah 3:17; Psalm 147:3; Psalm 46:1; Hebrews 13:8; Psalm 34:18; 1 Corinthians 15:58; and more.

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Lay it Down

This is a video created by a reader of Nailscars.com. It is based on one of the Worship Poems that I wrote. I honestly never imagined that the poem could be made into something this dramatic and moving. You can download the video below and also check out the poem here.

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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...

We’re All Born This Way

In case you can’t tell since my return I have been struggling with the issue of how the church handles homosexuality, and how our attitudes and actions do more to drive people away from the church than to help people find...

Why are we…

Why are we vocally anti-gay, but only anti-pride in theory? Why are we OK with gossiping about someone else’s sin? Why are we so defensive about God, the Bible and the church? Do we think God can’t handle himself? W...

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...

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

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.