I live in Lubbock, TX and over the three years we’ve lived here, we drank the kool-aid and become fans of Texas Tech athletics and Mike Leach.? Over this last week, Texas Tech and Leach have been national news for all the wrong reasons.? A squabble that probably could have been settled,? if everyone had [...]

I joke with friends about how much I loved my dam job before I took my last church job.? In case you don’t get the reference; I worked for an industrial construction crew that repaired a dam in Three Rivers, TX, therefore it was and will forever be referred to as my dam job. It [...]

This picture was taken from my office when YS ran a Crazy Youth Worker Office Contest, or something like that. What is obvious is that I still have plastic army men and their kin, what isn’t obvious is that when I have the time, like Christmas break, I custom make them. The ones I’ve made [...]

I met with a youth pastor this week and it was a great time of getting to know each other, hearing how God has worked in his life to this point and looking forward to our friendship growing deeper. ?As we were wrapping up our time together he mentioned wanting to be published and asked [...]

I’ve shared in a variety of places that our overall budget needs for my work with the National Network of Youth Ministries is $6K a month.? Last month I shared my $10 = 25% idea.? So far, 10 people have said they want to give $10 a month, only 140 more to go, woo hoo! [...]

Thursday was the last lunch for the Lubbock Youth Pastors Network in 2009.?? In some ways, for me, it was a very typical meeting.? We gather, introduce ourselves, have lunch, talk and pray.? Yet while a normal meeting, for me, it triggered something new that’s hard for me to label, but I’m going to try. [...]

Tony Jones is?throwing a blog tour in support of his new book: The Teaching of Twelve: Believing & Practicing the Primitive Christianity of the Ancient Didache Community. Good evangelical that I am, (simultanously implying the good and the bad) I’m not familiar with the Didache but I am looking forward to reading Tony’s book.? Tony [...]

For you youth workers, I know you pour your heart into these kids. What you are doing is impacting the next generation that will be raising the torch for the cause of Jesus Christ. So thank you so much for what you do. Jeff Foxworthy

One of the joys of listening to Perry Noble was he speaks in sound bites and paints great pictures with his words. “You hear Francis Chan and you’re not even sure you love Jesus.” I’m looking at this speaker list and I go, why am I there? If you’re here and feel like you’re a [...]

Francis Chan is the author of Crazy Love?, which I own but have yet to read.???This was the first time I’ve heard him speak.? After hearing him speak, I’m now committed to finish reading this book. This snapshot of his talk can not convey the apparent impact of his message but I’d hope that you’d [...]