Are You Running On Empty?

With a race coming up I’m practicing some of my runs without fueling beforehand. It’s not with any of my long runs, just the short ones. The reason...

Christopher Wesley Oct 11, 2011

How Eating Your Lunch Affects Your Ministry

I made the mistake of eating chili for lunch yesterday. Fortunately, nothing traumatic happened, but let’s just say my stomach has had better days....

Christopher Wesley Oct 10, 2011

How To Make Your Ministry Innovative

I’ll admit that I was sad over the news of Steve Jobs passing.  My wife and I spent a little time on youtube watching montages that told the story of…

Christopher Wesley Oct 6, 2011

Making Church Matter

In a month our church is doing something we’ve never done before…host a conference. Yeah, it’s a little crazy; but, very exciting at the same time....

Christopher Wesley Oct 5, 2011

3 Avoidable Mistakes We Make

A few years back I had an appointment to meet with another youth minister just starting out in their church. The drive to the church was an easy...

Christopher Wesley Oct 4, 2011

How To Address A Problem

When I saw the puddle of water on the floor my heart sank.  It had only been 3 months since I had fixed that shower valves in my bathroom when…

Christopher Wesley Oct 3, 2011

Clean It Up

Spent most of my Saturday clearing out a pile of sticks in my backyard. The pile had been accumulating for 3 years, so let’s just say it was huge....

Christopher Wesley Oct 2, 2011

Protecting Your Calendar

It depresses me when I look up at my calendar to see that I’m booked every weekend for the next three months. It doesn’t matter if it involves...

Christopher Wesley Sep 29, 2011

Build Your Strongest Ministry Team

I was a three season athlete all throughout Middle and High School. I loved playing sports despite not being excellent at any of them. What I loved...

Christopher Wesley Sep 28, 2011

Creating The Culture

Our pastor asked the staff to start thinking about the culture that is being created in the office. Nothing is wrong, he just wanted us to reflect on...

Christopher Wesley Sep 27, 2011

How to stay…hey…hey…focused!

An interesting question was asked in the comments of last Tuesday’s post “Double Dipping: What would you do?” The post addressed the issue of teens...

Christopher Wesley Sep 26, 2011
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