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Deep & Wide Book Review
Deep & Wide: creating churches unchurched people love to attend, is a must read for every church leader and pastor who desires to reach this generation with the Gospel of Jesus Christ! While the sum total
Read More »Loving God with “all your mind”?
It seems to me one of the greatest and (yet dramatically overlooked) evangelistic tool is the brain; especially in this generation. Most of the teens in my group are challenged in their school to
Read More »Magnify-Taking a Closer Look Part I
Establishing priorities in youth ministry has always been a challenge for me. Jesus spent a lot of time amongst sinners, but He also invested His life into twelve disciples. I’ve been contemplating a better
Read More »What’s in a Mission Statement?
What’s in a mission statement?…Nothing, assuming it is just words written on a piece of paper. But it could be everything if you commit to molding your ministry based on that statement. We recently
Read More »Finding Your Inner Super Skill
The Avengers recently rocked the big screen, setting a new record of $200.3 million over opening weekend with sales of 25.6 million tickets.[1] This record-setting film started as ‘The Avengers’ comic series by Marvel®,
Read More »Swing and a Miss
My oldest son started playing little league baseball this spring and I was excited for two reasons: He is naturally gifted at baseball so it was great to finally get him playing a sport
Read More »How do you spend it? – An Interview with a Veteran Youth Pastor
“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.” – Ambrose Bierce Sometimes in life and especially in youth ministry it seems that we find ourselves with not enough… not enough time, not enough
Read More »Article Review – Selling Out the Gospel
A youth ministry buddy of mine and fellow member of Simply Youth Ministry’s IT3 Team, Mike Kupferer, recently wrote an article for Group magazine that was featured in their Jan | Feb 2012 issue.
Read More »3 ideas for going Deep & Wide in 2012
If you’re not already familiar with Deep & Wide Youth Ministry, you should definitely check it out. While the point of this post is not to review its strategy, basically it’s a plan for
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