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Tim had a missions weekend that was great, until it wasn’t. Andrew’s building is falling apart, the fence at least. We took our sons to a baseball game, and dealt with the heartache [...]

PLEASE LEAVE US A ***** FIVE STAR REVIEW ***** ON I-TUNES! Youth ministry is all about the teaching, right? “You killed that message!” “That was a homerun!” “You were on fire!” Yeah, maybe. But [...]

Katie Edwards and Ronald Long talk about what a weekly sabbath looks like in the midst of a busy season. Questions to consider: How can you prepare for a Sabbath throughout the week? What [...]

PLEASE LEAVE US A ***** FIVE STAR REVIEW ***** ON I-TUNES! Youth ministry is all about the teaching, right? “You killed that message!” “That was a homerun!” “You were on fire!” Yeah, maybe. But [...]

We planned on a much longer show today, but our livestream audience of dozens somehow crashed face-book, and in the middle of our broadcast, the world changed (until it gets fixed anyway.) We [...]

Let’s just say it. A healthy growing ministry is not the indicator of a healthy growing ministry leader. In this episode, James talks about how our love for ministry, and even the people we [...]

After a few weeks of covid induced silence, we’re back! We’re talking all about Sundays that don’t go as planned, awful outcomes of interview processes, and calling an au-dible [...]

This week I got to have a great conversation with Katie Edwards, Junior High Pastor at Saddleback Church, about how she uses fun to help foster community and trust with her middle school [...]

Justin takes you through his ministries own strategy and playbook for their youth ministry. It’s important to write things down, think through and define what the wins, the whys, the whats and [...]

Youth ministry comes with all sorts of joys and hardships. When times are good, we think we want to stay at a church forever, and when times become more difficult, we can begin to look for [...]