I originally started this post back at the end of 2021 and the intro is from that time frame. I’m…
Seeking the Garden
In certain denominations, there’s an image of the wilderness vs. the city, where the wilderness is a place of immature…
Space to Hope
Sometimes, life feels empty. It feels like there are so many empty spaces left to be filled, so many ministries…
2022 Diamonds Conference Announcement
If you’ve been around my blog a while, you know I mention chronic illness in the Church fairly often. That’s…
Seeking His Likeness
What lies did the serpent tell Eve when tempting her to eat of the forbidden fruit in Genesis 3? This…
Building Better Youth Ministry
I’ve laid out a couple of purposes for youth ministry—equipping teens as believers and integrating them with the larger church—and…
For the Lonely
You scroll through social media, your feed filled with pictures of happy couples and white dresses and engagement rings. You…
Youth Ministry: Beginning Church Membership
Last week I talked about the need for youth ministry to equip teenagers as believers, because they will be the…
Youth Ministry: Equipping the Next Generation of Believers
Modern youth ministry is failing. It’s failing to train young people in the Word, it’s failing to equip them for…
Becoming an Adult: Seeking Ministry
There are certain areas of growing up that we tend to naturally gravitate toward, and others that we often neglect.…