accountability

How To Keep This Year’s Ministry Resolutions

This is the year.  This is the year that you are going to be more present in the community.  This is the year when you are going to balance your…

accountability

How To Handle Painful Situations

My first break up was painful. I remember my stomach being in knots, my mind was a blurred and I thought life was over. I remember talking to a...

bold moves

How To Bail With Style

As we turned onto the main street I was waiting for my wife to say, “Let’s bail on this, it’s not worth it.”  The snow was falling faster and the…

accountability

Your Own Worst Enemy

I was frustrated and it was showing. I told my high school leaders that I needed them to step up. After months of trying nothing was happening and...

accountability

What’s Your Breaking Point?

It was a long day.  The commute was rough, people at work were in a bad mood and distraction after distraction built the misery.  At the end of the day…

change

Timing Is Everything

This past Saturday my family went to Hershey Park. It was a little bit of a risk because there was a huge rain storm making it’s way across the...

accountability

Overcoming Stress

Tomorrow night our high school program kicks off. I’m excited with a little touch of stress. While I cannot wait to see all the high school students...

accountability

Longevity In Ministry

Yesterday marked 9 years of professional ministry for me. In the longevity of my ministry a lot has changed for me both personally and...

accountability

Escaping Isolation

In my third year of youth ministry I hit a dark period where I felt isolated and alone in ministry.  There was a lot of work piling up on my…

bold moves

How To Be Bold

There I was on top of a telephone pole, sweating profusely trying to ignore the chants of “Jump, jump, jump.” from my classmates. Our high school had...

accountability

Deeper Small Groups

As I’m planning for the fall and making sure leaders are contacting their small groups, I reflect on my own. It’s hard to believe they’ll all be...

blindside

When You Experience A Ministry Blindside

“This is a complete injustice!” It was a blindside. This parent called me in my second week of youth ministry complaining that her son was not being...