I have been in Youth Ministry for a very long time now. It’s been twenty years working as a volunteer or professional in this area. After two decades of working with teens, attending conferences, reading too many books, articles, and blogs to count, I can now after all that still...
As I listened to Pastor Ted’s sermon on Sunday, I recalled a quote from a man named Brennan Manning. He says, “In every interaction you either give life, or take it there is no neutral exchange.” I think back to my time spent teaching Confirmation students the fifth...
In his sermon, Pastor Ted uses a great object lesson--the idea that we can either build walls or dig wells. I love the part where he says, “In a sense, each of us is a church under construction; either building walls or wells.” I like it so much I want a t-shirt made that says...
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be...