My biggest frustration when working with youth is investing tons of my life into them, trying to teach them, hoping I can keep them from messing up like I have and like my friends have; only to have them often ignore me so that I have to deal with the fall out. Then I take a step back and remember how much God invests in all of us, myself included, only to be rejected and have to deal with our fall out, but He loves me anyway.
April 21, 2011 by at 8:00 am Leave a Comment Read Your Bible and Win: a Wednesday Night Follow-up #MyExperienceAs #YouthPastor via @Nick_theGeek
Read Your Bible and Win: a Wednesday Night Follow-up
I was really blessed a while back to work with a pretty cool guy on a few projects. First, his name is "Bob," and if you know me then you know I love that name. I don't know why, I just think it is frigintastic. I tried to name all of your kids that. I think I understand my wife vetoing the girls names, but still ... we have two boys, so you would think I could have picked at least one of those names. I also tried naming the dog Bob. … [Read more...]
April 18, 2011 by at 1:11 pm 6 Comments Music: The Gateway to the Mind #MyExperienceAs #JesusFreak #Music #YouthPastor via @Nick_theGeek
Music: The Gateway to the Mind
I think most of the Western world, if not the entire world, is aware of the saying, "the fastest way to a man's heart is through his stomach." If I'm being to Americentric in my assumptions then let me briefly explain. Men like good food and will happily fall in love with a good cook. This might be over simplifying things, but that is the essence of most cliches. It doesn't refute the truths behind the concept though. It is an essential truth … [Read more...]
So yeah, I get to preach Sunday AM for Palm Sunday. I have a feeling that won’t happen again but I’m gonna take full advantage and play this as part of my sermon.
April 16, 2011 by at 10:00 am Leave a Comment Accountability and Confrontation: A Challenge to Love #MyExperienceAs #JesusFreak via @Nick_theGeek
Accountability and Confrontation: A Challenge to Love
The past few months I've been feeling more and more that there is something missing in the American Church. It seems there is so much emphasis on tolerance, love, and acceptance. I think these are great things to push, but at some point there needs to be balance. Actually, anyone that has heard me preach will tell you I think pretty much everything must be kept in perfect balance. Holiness is a must, but when it gets skewed it turns into … [Read more...]
April 15, 2011 by at 8:00 am 2 Comments I do, I did, I should: Weddings, Marriage, and Counseling #MyExperienceAs via @Nick_theGeek
I do, I did, I should: Weddings, Marriage, and Counseling
Almost 12 years ago I married the love of my life. We had been dating for 4 years and we were both so very young. I was 20 and my bride was 19. Just a couple of weeks before our wedding she picked her mom up from school (her mom is a teacher) and school officials tried making her ride home on the bus thinking she was a student. If this were a high school that might seem reasonable, but since this was an elementary school that seems quite … [Read more...]
Just a quick update on some stuff I’ve been planning. We are doing an event called “SlopFest” It is going to be crazy messy fun. Here is a short video from one of the games they play at the event we are patterning after. Those are eggs on the kids heads.
January 24, 2011 by at 8:00 am 4 Comments Day 1 of 21: Fasting and Prayer — Importance of Twenty-One #MyExperienceAs via @Nick_theGeek
Day 1 of 21: Fasting and Prayer — Importance of Twenty-One
Hey, look who is still alive. It has been my desire to starting writing on this blog for some time. A lot has happened since my last post, and I don't think it would be possible to really recap everything and I'm not going to try. Today is the first day of 21 days of fasting. This isn't me standing on the street corner saying "hey look at me!" or anything like that. I'm writing this to be an encouragement to my students that are … [Read more...]
June 25, 2010 by at 5:57 pm 5 Comments The hardest thing is letting go #MyExperienceAs #YouthPastor via @Nick_theGeek
The hardest thing is letting go
This week was youth camp. There were some unbelievable obstacles. The camp facilities we used were not exclusive nor Christian. In fact I learned that it has been used for many thing in the past. Back in the 50s it was a Jewish camp. Of course I have no issues with this, but it began changing hands and was used as a Wiccan camp, nudist camp, and general drunken idiot party camp over the years. Beyond the deep spiritual issues there were … [Read more...]
