As a younger youth pastor, I once walked into my church office while some friends were photocopying different parts of their anatomy parts.  Faces, hands, butts…
I’m really hoping that it was done in that order.  I highly recommend that you use some kind of sanitizer on any photocopy machine before putting your face on the glass.  [...]

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I love that we live in a country where we can listen to Christian Radio.  I even enjoy listening to Christian radio, and have a few stations on my presets in the car.  However, I have a small bone to pick. 
Why on God’s green earth are we still hearing songs like “What if Cartoons got [...]

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Young Life is a great organization that reaches unchurched kids.  As I have come to love being a part of this ministry my sensitivity towards certain words has grown.  In reaching out to students who are not followers of Jesus (yet), there are a few words that have worked themselves out of my vocabulary, at [...]

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So after being on staff in a church for the last decade, my wife and I went to church last week for the first time as Non-staff.  We visited North Albany Community Church, and it was a pretty amazing experience for us.  We actually sat next to each other. 
I know that sounds weird, but it [...]

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The hardest part about finding a new church is that you can never agree on all the things you like and dislike.  My wife likes upbeat music, I like exegetic preaching, Nicki likes toys. 
This week we’ll begin our journey into the adventure of Church shopping.  For the past decade I have been on staff at [...]

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We used to do staff meetings in our pastor’s office.  For years we would gather in this space, and listen to what sounded like an elephant parade passing by overhead.  There is a preschool enrichment program that used the space directly above the office. 
We would all pretend like we couldn’t hear the stomping.  Everyone acted [...]

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I am a disgrace to the profession of youth ministry.  Tonight our church staff threw me and my family a going away party.  Towards the end of the night our host invited us down into the basement for some foosball action. 
I hate this game, mainly because I’m terrible at it.  We played three games, each time rotating partners, [...]

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