There was a time when students wanted to hear from the guy with the tattoo. They loved to hear about the drugs and the mistakes and the unbelievable turnaround in life. Whether this was marked by a tattoo or a piercing, somehow this style became cool. As a youth worker, maybe you started feeling like [...]

In so many churches these days, I’ve found a large emphasis placed on pastors and youth pastors pursuing knowledge. Many churches won’t even consider hiring a pastor unless he is ordained or has multiple degrees from credible universities. Everyone seems determined to figure out God. If we just learn enough, we’ll understand. And this understanding [...]

We often inherit the sins of the youth pastors before us. Sometimes those sins are huge (I am not saying one sin is large than another), the kind of sin that ruins a life. Other times those sins are small but the church doesn’t want the new yp to repeat them. We need to be [...]