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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Chat leaders

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Each week I produce a run sheet for both the youth group and kids club. Call me slightly OCD. And each week I have the same two words mult...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Leader innoculation

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The weeks are quickly counting down until the year 6's are given their first taste of youth group. Over the last month I've tried ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

What to do when a kid thinks you're a dickhead

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What do you do when a kid at your church doesn't like you? I write WHEN because, inevitably, you won't get on with every kid. And,...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

The last minute inspiration

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Earlier this week I posted about the frantic last hour before a ministry event. Last night I went through the frantic last minutes before...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Defending your turf?

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You'd never say it out loud, but you/your church might dare to think it internally... It's OUR school. It's OUR service. It...
Monday, August 19, 2013

The frantic last hour

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It happens before Kid's Club. It happens before youth group. It happens before services on Sunday. It definitely happens before big e...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Someone who doesn't really care is a positive thing

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We've been mates for a long, long time. He was one of the people who stood beside me when I got married, endured two miscarriages and w...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

This isn't a great song... but...

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I'm not one of those guys who compulsively needs to use a song in every presentation they give. In fact, I hardly ever use them. I...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Postioned to help people get through

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Right now life is tough. Life at church is REALLY tough. My church is going through one of those events which you hope you'll never pe...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

4 stages of giving

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I really liked this post about the stages of maturity people go through in regards to the way they view giving. Stage 1 - I won't. ...
Monday, August 5, 2013

What do I have to feel guilty about?

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For non-believers, guilt is a poor strategy. Unless someone gives some value towards the words of the bible or the church, then guilt won...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

With one less reason... What do you expect?

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This week I spoke about relationships and sex in both a year 10, public high school, scripture class and the youth group at my church. Uns...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Marriage THEN sex

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This week I'm discussing "God, dating, love, marriage & sex" in a senior high scripture class and at youth group. As we ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Signage dangers

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Today I changed the church sign from what I wrote on it last week (I mentioned what it said here ). And... If I'm too brutally honest ...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Length limiters

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ARE YOU DISTURBED BY THE VIOLENCE IN THE BIBLE? WONDER HOW IT FITS WITH THE MESSAGE OF JESUS? FIND OUT THIS SUNDAY AT 6PM. Above is what...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Busy or Significant?

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With the lectionary spitting up the story of Mary & Martha over the weekend, someone mentioned a really good thought at a meeting I att...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The first division would be???

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Communion. Baptism. Church Leadership. Thee role of women within the church. These are just SOME of the reasons churches have spilt. ...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

To empower they must HAVE and KNOW

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As I've written here , one of my aims in ministry is to empower. But, truth be told, I also feel it is one of the weakest areas of my ...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Living the the shadow of...

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Whether it is factual or not, the myth states that the average youth minister will only serve at their current church for 18 months. I...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Emptying your cup

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With the school holidays winding up today I've spent the last two weeks knocking off a few books from the every expanding stack-of-books...