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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

2025 Best of…

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It’s 10:30pm New Year’s Eve. I’m sitting on the couch. My cat is asleep beside me. My wife is asleep besides him. 2025 is really ending with...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

The playbook for finding a long-term relationship

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In my last post I wrote that Tinder won’t find you love . Tinder rewards attractiveness and attention. The relationships you admire are buil...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Why Tinder won’t find you what you’re searching for

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Modern dating sounds awful. I’m immensely glad that I’ve never had to do it. Of the many reasons, I would hate to be on the meat-market that...
Friday, December 19, 2025

The skill every teen must learn to be a productive adult

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There are many things you need to learn at school. There are some things you should learn by the time you leave school. Some people think th...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Keeping the balance of ABOUT and OF the topic you’re interested in

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Throughout the week I skim, scroll, read and listen to a bunch of things rotating around the things I’m interested in. Theology. Youth minis...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

The importance of the Present-Continuum in the life of a Christian

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I’m no linguist. I’m certainly not an English scholar. Truth be told, I had no idea what an article or a tense really were within language u...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Should you hope that your teens gets a crush on their youth minister?

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Wayyyy back in 2008 I wrote ( here ) about those within a youth ministry having a crush on their youth minister. As far as I know. It never ...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Why the pulpit MUST volunteer

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Now, obviously, those in positions of leadership can’t be a part of everything which happens within a church. You can’t possibly be in two p...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Are you looking FOR the answer or to BE the answer?

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Christians believe that God answers prayer. Otherwise, why bother? When we pray, often we pray for God to answer our petition. And He does. ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Shouldn’t we just be open about our bedroom intercession?

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We pray they make time for each other… We ask that they reconnect… These types of prayers may be uttered when one spouse has been away from ...
Friday, November 7, 2025

Why it’s important to be mindful of what happened before church

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Some days, it’s easy to get your kids to church. They woke up on time. They had no disagreements. They want to go. Other Sundays are a strug...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Being alert to the next step in the last conversation

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Developing a relationship takes time and effort. Within an educational or pastoral setting, this relationship develops in snippets. The main...
Monday, October 27, 2025

The mindset to help you handle rejection

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I'm currently open to alternate job offers. As such, I've had a few job interviews of the last few weeks. And... so far... Missed ou...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Declaring it a safe place doesn’t make it so

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“This is a safe space” doesn’t make it a safe space. But, we’ve all heard this phrase shared at the start of a presentation or sharing time....
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Monachopsis: The modern church problem

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I’ll admit,  monachopsis  isn’t a usual word. Frankly, I’ve never used it before. I only stumbled over it during the week. But, I’ve sure fe...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Incorporating the unexpected

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My home church, for a matter of months, had a possum periodically enter the sanctuary and waltz across a support-beam. From memory, it was ...
Monday, October 6, 2025

What number would put you in the top half?

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Of course, there’s no real way to work out the answer to the following conundrum… What would put you in the top half of growing churches? Wh...
Monday, September 29, 2025

Opening the window for the 5-Minute Expert

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No matter what vocation you work in, there will always be people who are experts in a certain segment of the job. Maybe they’ve been doing i...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The message that must emerge from the banter

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I love my staff room. One of the best things about it is the quality banter. One of the common sounds amongst my colleagues is laughter. Or ...
Friday, September 19, 2025

How should a youth group or church respond to a traumatic event on the other side of the world?

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Event. Reporting. Reaction. Reaction to the reaction. This is the modern news-cycle. So, how should a church respond to a newsworthy event? ...