5 Questions To Help Create The Family Culture You Want

If you’re like me and other families I’ve been around as a Youth Pastor, there are times that the pace of life gets very hectic. Where the activities we are a part of dominate our lives, and it takes every ounce of energy to just keep up. That also includes the various church events weContinue reading “5 Questions To Help Create The Family Culture You Want”

A Living Hope

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, whoContinue reading “A Living Hope”

3 Things Our Youth Ministries Need to Communicate Today

During these trying times our Youth need to hear a different message from us as Christians than they hear from the news and social media. The 3 main things that I believe our students need to hear is: They are loved, There is hope, and God wants more. They are Loved It doesn’t matter whatContinue reading “3 Things Our Youth Ministries Need to Communicate Today”

Finding Life in a Cemetery

There is a cemetery near our house and for some reason our kids love to go to the cemetery and jump on the tree stumps. As they jump and run to the next stump I often walk around and look at the tomb stones. It’s a very sobering juxtaposition between life and death. While myContinue reading “Finding Life in a Cemetery”

Are You Prepared to Die?

Today is Good Friday, a day that every Christian looks to as the epicenter of Salvation. Without Good Friday there is no Resurrection Sunday, and if there is no Resurrection Sunday we are ‘above all people most to be pitied’ (1 Cor. 15:19). Good Friday is also a stark reminder that, “Jesus told his disciples, “IfContinue reading “Are You Prepared to Die?”