Let Your Yes be Yes and… [Your Longevity Yes be Yes]
“Let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no. Anything more than this comes from the evil one.” Matthew 5:37 (CEB) We tend to forget about our “long-term yes’s” […]
Ministry
NTS Camp 2016 Review
God created the world to be a fabric woven together, and he invites us to be interwoven in relationships. Relationships with God, with each other, and with the world. To […]
Set Up Your Year up to Win
I have spent a lot of time in ministry spinning my wheels. I don’t know if you can relate, but there have been seasons where it felt like I couldn’t […]
How to Move Students Into a Deeper Relationship With Jesus
Sometimes I think we think it’s only about the physical stuff we need to do with our students or for our students in order to move them into a deeper […]
Posture 5: Life With God
Over the last month or so we have been looking into Skye Jethani’s teachings on how we as the Church are presenting the Gospel and the ramifications of misrepresenting the […]
Encouragement from Skye Jethani
For those who have followed our series on Faith Postures, based off of Skye Jethani’s teachings about the gospel and young people, we’ve reached out to Skye recently, asking him […]
Add Grit to Your Ministry
One of my favorite passages is from 2 Kings 3. At this time the Kings of Israel, Judah and Edom have tried to do everything on their own to lead […]
Posture Four: Life For God
In John 21:15, Jesus presented Simon Peter with a series of three questions in quick succession, questioning his true love for Jesus. Each time Jesus asked, “Do you truly love […]
Posture Three: Life From God
Growing up my dentist was my cousin (he’s much older than me) which was great financially for our family. There was a problem though: he lived an hour and a […]
Five Tips to Remembering Students’ Names
Before my daughter was born, I remember considering the implications of bringing her in to this world. I would be responsible for providing her basic needs. I would be accountable […]