My friend Mac Lake is a genius at mentoring. Mac and I were talking about how to organize a quality mentoring sessions, a simple way for a mentor to walk a mentee through a comfortable conversation. So often we get into a mentoring relationship and we don’t know what to say. So Mac developed this Five P question plan [...]

The fear of rejection is powerful. Think of the first time you liked another person and how much you cared about whether they liked you or not. We think more about rejection as kids then we do as adults. No wonder we miss the signs when a student feels rejected by us. Being rejected by [...]

How do you determine if you are a good leader? Most of us measure ourselves against the leaders in our lives. Maybe we look at the senior pastor of our church and measure ourselves against his/her leadership or we look to a business leader we know and ask ourselves the same question. Is this a [...]

What are the most powerful words in the world? Student ministry is a lot about words. Students are always debating who said what and what did they mean when they said such and such. Words mean a lot to students. Youth workers think a lot about words as well. We think that if we craft [...]