Oh Snap

Ok, so I’m a kids pastor, but I am also human. I’m going to let that preface my next point: I am the King of snap judgments. I can meet you for the first time and if you are awkward, or if you are strange or if you make a bad joke, my brain automatically [...]

Love 146

Rob Morris the co-founder of Love146 came to speak to us today about the abolition of child sex slavery. He gave us some staggering reports, like: every minute, two children are sold into slavery. That is ridiculously insane. Rob went undercover into a brothel, to see children between the ages of 5 and 10 locked [...]

Sex (gasp!)

Oh boy, the subject that is so taboo to talk about in church…SEX ahhhhh! Oh come on, your high school can talk about it, MTV can talk about it, VH1 talks about it, even Lifetime talks about it, but as soon as it’s brought into the church, it’s all of a sudden unmentionable. Pam Stenzel [...]

Danger Danger Will Robinson

So often we are living our lives toward the goal of safety. Yet, we thrive, we long for the next action flick to come out, to be able to sit on the edge of our seats, to feel our heart beat, to feel our palms sweat, to sense the adrenaline to pulse through our veins.. [...]

Change

  Whenever I have a major change in my life, whether I move, or change jobs, I always seem really tired in the process. I throw my body out of whack and all it can do is get sleepy on me. These past few weeks have been a good example of this: I moved from Utica [...]

Only the good die young

     I love being young. Most people would tell you that being young is hard, because your not established at all, your not sure of anything really. I disagree, being a younger guy has been a blast, not to say that sometimes it’s hard, but I see things through fresh eyes, I am not [...]

While in Cambodia

     OK, I have offically been in the county or Cambodia for about 36 hours..the heat, the humidity…it’s  great! You would think that blonde haired, light skinned, blue eyed fellow such as myself would hate being in the sun, well think again my friends, the sun and I might not be best friends, but we [...]

Successful Children’s Ministry

     What is successful children’s ministry? How do we make what we have either work, or work more effectively? I was talking to Pastor Sam Luce, the children’s pastor at Mt. Zion Ministries, and he was explaining that he wanted to make Sunday school an experience that kids will remember. As a kid, I [...]