Corn?

Look at what some friends from our church found for us to do as a youth group activity.  Doesn’t this look fun?  It almost looks like that maze in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 

Today

Today was my first day as the youth pastor at Naperville Christian Church.  It was a real good experience.  Shelley and I met with the kids in Sunday School.  The group was predominantly middle-school students.  They were a pretty high-energy group, but what do you expect?  After all, they are middle-schoolers.  We played some four-on-a-couch.  That’s a [...]

My CBC Sunday School Class

Moving and Goodbyes

This last Sunday was the last time preaching as the youth pastor of Chadron Berean.  It was pretty tough.  Chadron Berean was a great place to be at.  Our four years here were well spent.  Pastor Dan has been a great mentor and teacher.  It’s always hard to say goodbyes.  Next Sunday we’re going to [...]

Proverbs on Youth Ministry

So this Sunday is my last opportunity to preach at Chadron Berean.  I’ve decided to speak on the book of Proverbs and youth ministry.  Over the course of the summer, I’ve been reading through Proverbs and mulling over what it has say about parenting.  During this time, it hit me that a lot of what [...]

This week

I’ve been pretty busy lately getting ready for the move to Wheaton.  That’s why there hasn’t been much posting on the old blog.  This last week Shelley, Mae, and I went to the firework show at Mt. Rushmore.  We figured that we have never gone and since we were so close, we had better take [...]

Changes

For the last four years, I’ve been a youth pastor for Chadron Berean Church.  It’s been a great experience.  I’ve learned a lot from working with Pastor Dan Williams.  He’s been a great mentor and he has a great heart for serving God and loving people.   Working with our kids has been just awesome.  Shelley [...]

Salvation Survey

Every year at Camp Rock the dormleaders (i.e. counselors) are provided with a survey about salvation to give to the campers.  The purpose of the survey is to see how much your campers understand about the gospel and the plan of salvation.  The surveys ask questions like, “If you were to die today, would you go to [...]

I’m back home

So last night I got back home after spending a week at Camp Rock’s wilderness camp.  I was a dirty mess by the end of the week.  I didn’t shower all week.  I tried to wash off in a dirty lake on some farmer’s land.  However, the lake might have left me more dirty than I [...]

The Bare Minimum Requirements

In Dallas Willard’s book The Divine Conspiracy (which is a great book BTW), he talks about how we have reduced the gospel to the bare minimum requirements.  In other words, evangelicals tend to argue about what’s the bare minimum thing that God requires me to do in order to be saved.  If I do this [...]