Over several years in youth ministry, I’ve realized that students continually see me in a different way. I started as the Christian Jack Black; loaded with energy, donuts and an assortment of shenanigans. Then I was seen as the moral, advice-giving big brother to many of my students. Now I’ve given up [...]
more...
Land mines: I hadn’t been on the job a month when a man who just wanted to “help” approached me with a church directory. For the next 30 minutes he proceeded to point at countless pictures in the directory as he gave me all the dirt on my new church family. I was [...]
more...
A common occurrence as a youth minister is the frequent church member who says ”Do you know teenagers are cutting or sexting or experimenting with erotic asphyxiation?” So here is an article of a new trend that I was unaware of, but doesn’t exactly shock me.
Introducing “drunk gummies.”
New trends [...]
more...
This letter was in response to an earlier post called Grateful for the Ravens. This is anonymous, yet it is all too familiar.
First, please know that I DO NOT do my job to receive ANYTHING. I count each day as a blessing and am so thankful to have a [...]
more...
I absolutely love/hate tough questions. They are more fun to give than to receive. Jesus wasn’t afraid to use them.
Here are a few examples of questions that have the ability to peel back many layers on our leadership and the ministries we serve. About our leadership styles, intended for those we [...]
more...
Before I tackle the struggles of we, let me start with the struggles of me. As a pastor’s kid punk, I thought giving money to the church was ludicrous since I was sacrificing my dad to all the needy people in the church. This mindset carried over into my own ministry career [...]
more...
Try this statement on for size, it is more fruitful to discuss the person of Jesus with a non-Christian than it is to discuss church or Christian living. Not sure about you, but I have found this to be true over and over again with teenagers. They often have the same sentiment as [...]
more...
© Lowell W. Berry Center for Lifelong Learning, Fuller Theological Seminary. All rights reserved.
The Burner is powered by
WordPress
Entries (RSS)
and Comments (RSS).
Designer: Kristin Myers Harvey | Developer: Jason Loftis
