I had the privilege to speak this weekend at Redeemer. Love my church. I spoke on parenting, here are a few of the points from my message that I think apply to leaders everywhere. What does the gospel require of parents?
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This is the very first year of CMLeaders conference. So I am not sure 100% what to expect. I am very honored to be a part of this conference. I think it really has a chance to become a must attend conference. Here’s why. I have never heard of a children‘s ministry conference that focuses solely on developing
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Of all the teens, young adults and especially those in Bible college I have asked what they want to do in the ministry, almost all say youth pastor. I don’t say this in a bitter way at all, because I was one of those who said the same thing: “I want to be a youth
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My friend and fellow blogger Kenny has been doing a great series about the getting a job in children’s ministry and sharing a bit of his journey. I interned as a youth pastor and thought I was hired to be a youth pastor but due to semantics and devine providence I became a children’s pastor through a less than traditional path. I thought what
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If you haven’t heard by now there is a blog tour going on for our new book “The Eric Trap” which comes out at the end of the month. Here is what people are saying about it so far. Jim Wideman Ready for a blog road trip Day 2 Kenny Conley Intro to the blog
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Very excited that our Book is done after 2 years of hard work and dreaming up the idea for a different kind of collaborative book project. I love that The Eric Trap is a story about a kids pastor written by kids pastors. Being a leadership fable the story pulls you in and the principles
I recently read a parenting book that was literally one of the best parenting books I have ever read it’s called Gospel Powered Parenting. (Here is a review my friend Dustin Nickerson did of it.) I loved it because it focused on the Gospel and Jesus not simply behavior modification. I also loved how it called men to be
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I won’t leaving you guessing for months. I’ll just tell you. I am really excited to be in the last stages of releasing a book that I had a part in writing. It was a book project a few other great kids pastors from around the country came together to write a leadership book. It
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When it comes to starting a special needs ministry or anything in life that is worth doing the hardest part is knowing where to start. The first thing that you have to do is deal with the ignorance factor. This is so huge because I believe ignorance is one of the biggest reasons churches don’t
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Here is a crazy idea that just might be brilliant. Especially for small children ages 2 and under. Don’t buy toys rent them. The youth pastor at our church pointed this site out to me and I found that there were a few of them out there. Benefits of renting toys for small children. 1.
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