Next week my church does their annual “employee self-appraisal and job assessments.” Even though I’ve only been here a little over two months…

Man, I love this! When it came on American Idol tonight, Dana and I both laughed out loud!
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In an email to a couple youth pastors earlier this week, Matt Silver brought up a great question:
Do you guys do anything to address any kind of wardrobe…

We’re all used to the YouTube craze, but maybe there’s something new coming up: Ustream.tv. Ustream.tv lets users broadcast live events over the web…

“Life is way too short to waste time doing average things, since average things produce average results. I would rather search for the greater things in…

This week’s Freebie Friday idea comes from Ben Kraker, a youth pastor in Elmira, Oregon. Thanks for submitting your idea, Ben!
In March and April I did an…

I know this is about a week old, but I just now went through my RSS reader and caught up with this post by Perry Noble. He did an excellent job of summarizing…

I just put together a quick video and small group discussion sheet for youth group tonight. Here it is for download in case any of your groups can benefit from…

Three students who graduated from PBU the year before me are serving at New Life Campus Fellowship, a campus church at Virginia Tech of about 1,000…

The comments of my earlier post, “Why do kids come to youth group?” generated a lot of good practical ideas for building relationships with the kids…