This is a guest post from my friend Andy Blanks. When is a youth worker too old to be effective? I’ve noticed something that happens to us youth workers around our mid-30′s, or so. We find ourselves unable to naturally relate to teenagers. Most of us have reached a point where we don’t automatically pick [...]

Nick Farr, who describes himself as an ‘everything pastor’ (you know, the guys who do a little of everything) wrote a fantastic post a couple of months ago about how to leave a ministry, and how to do it well. You can check out his blog at http://www.everythingpastor.com/. I am reposting this blog with his [...]

When I was five years old my brother asked me if I wanted to burn in hell? I said, “no,” he said pray this prayer. That was the day I was saved. Not really, but when I think back on my conversion experience, that is all I remember. I grew up in a Christian home [...]

Many of us have been using the New Year to make goals and think about the future. We all have an idea of who we want to be in the future. We dream of the impact we are going to have on others. We would like to be creative, better leaders or more intentional. I [...]