May 2019
- Five Audiobooks You Have to Read Instead of the Physical Books
- How to Leave Your Kids Something of Value.
April 2019
- Rembrandt and The Cross of Christ
- Pastor PreachersNSneakers Should Concern You.
- Training Kids to be Truthful and Kind
March 2019
February 2019
- Looking For a Bible For My PreTeen
- How Do We Train Our Kids to Stand Firm
- How Kids Walk Away
- Recruiting Volunteers: Who and How to Recruit
January 2019
December 2018
- Gospel At Center Post: New Year's Resolutions
- Top 10 Books of 2018
- Loss, Lament, and Advent Hope
- Advent is About Waiting
November 2018
- Looking For Advent Resources For Your Family?
- Parents What Message are You Preaching to Your Kids.
- Are you a Preacher Who Pastors or a Pastor who Preaches.
October 2018
- Happy Reformation Day - Semper Reformanda
- How to Talk to Your Kids About Scary Events in the News
- Build Something Worth Building
September 2018
- What's Durable Trumps What's Visible.
- What Makes You Cry.
- 5 Signs You Might be an Insecure Leader
- Free Gospel at Center Webinar
August 2018
- How We Created Millennials
- Why Kids Need Hymns and Carols.
- Why Online Church is Helpful But Not The Church.
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
- Don't Waste Your Time
- Family Devotion Resources
- Why Teaching Your Kids to Say Sorry Isn't Good.
- Don't Waste Your Devotion
- What Getting Angry, Scared or Despondent Says About Us.
- Teaching the Bible’s Disturbing Stories
- 4 Basics Every Worship Song Needs
April 2018
- What Partnering With Parents Looks Like
- Pastor, What Do You Agonize Over?
- Does the World Need Another Blog?
- Youth Pastor: Pick Reverence Over Cool
March 2018
- Explaining the Trinity to Kids
- Why You Should Bring Your Kids to Funerals
- Should I listen to Jordan Peterson?
February 2018
- 3 Temptations Every Leader Has to Face
- How Do I Send My Kids to School on Monday?
- 11 Years ago today
- Submission Not Innovation
- Why Gospel Centered Curriculum Matters
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
- Raising Boys in a #MeToo World.
- Protecting Girls in a #MeToo World
- 8 Profitable Ways to Read the Bible
- Knowing God’s Voice Comes from Knowing God's Word.
- The Reformation for You and Your Family.
October 2017
September 2017
- Resource Links from my Kidmin 2017 Precon
- Help! I Got My Kid a Cell Phone. Now What?
- Book Review: Gospel Powered Parenting.
- Why I Signed the Nashville Statement.
August 2017
- How Do We Teach Our Kids to Love?
- The One Thing Your Kids Need to Know About Race
- A Family Ministry Manifesto.
- Late Summer Reads
July 2017
- How to Evaluate Large Events
- Experience, Exegesis and Eugene
- Things I No Longer Say: Healthy Things Grow.
- Should my Kids Watch 13 Reasons Why?
June 2017
- Christian Worldview in our Kids Lives.
- The One Thing That Will Change Your Family Forever.
- Your Pain is Not Meaningless
May 2017
- Is excellence killing the church?
- Leaving Your Kids a Legacy of Faith
- Mom I'm Bored.....
- Pastor as Theologian
- Rabbit Starvation and Missional Youth Ministry
April 2017
March 2017
- Self-Esteem is Ruining Your Kids
- How Do I Help My Kids Engage Culture
- 3 simple questions to help you ask better questions.
- Books You Should Read Your First Year in Kidmin
- The Disordered Love of Disney
February 2017
- Hide and Go Seek and Letting Go.
- 7 answers you need to hear from award winning author Sally Lloyd-Jones
- Why I Won't Take a Chance on the Rapper With My Kids.
- Bitter Sweet
- Pastor as Shepherd
January 2017
- How to Defend Your Pro-Life Position in 3 Minutes or Less
- A Gentle Word to the Church on Politics
- Pastor as Disciple
- Pastor as Leader
- Radical Truth for Kids and Parents.
- What Every Boy and Girl Need to Know
December 2016
- 10 Best Books I Read in 2016
- Books I Read in 2016
- How to get Video to Multi-site Locations Fast, Cheap and Easy.
November 2016
- 6 things I tell every story teller
- 6 Things I Tell Every Worship Leader
- Gratitude Versus the American Dream
- 3 Things every pastor should say during Christmas
- The long term damage consumerism causes
- Raising Kids in Post Apocalyptic America
- America is Great Because She is Good
- What Bible Should I Buy My Kid?
October 2016
- Halloween and Pseudo-Transformation.
- The Phone Call No One Wants
- Pastor Success is Not Your Goal.
- The Single Greatest Recruitment Tool for Kidmin
September 2016
- Fairy Tales and The Gospel
- Free Bible Story: The Call of Isaiah
- My Advice to Young Pastors
- Free Bible Story: Elijah and Jezebel
- 6 Questions Every Communicator Must Ask Before They Preach
- Great resource for Middle School Games
- Dear Pastor: Stay Where You Are.
August 2016
- Raising Gospel Centered Kids in a Gospel Hating World
- How to Explain The Ten Commandments to Kids
- The Dark Side of Parenting
- Young Leader: Gospel
- Young Leader: Ego
- Why a Successful VBS Has to be a Church Wide Event
- Young Leader: Experience
- Young Leader: Listen
- Advice to young leaders.
- Why we changed our mind on VBS
July 2016
June 2016
- Why Your Kids Need to be Alone
- The Forgotten Promise Of American Liberty
- If You Can Keep It: Q & A With Eric Metaxas
- What Relevance Is
May 2016
- Three Actions to be a Better Parent Overnight.
- 3 Books that Need To Be Written That No One Would Buy
- Protecting Kids Online with Circle
- Honey I Shrunk the Gospel
- The Hidden Blessings of Smaller and Having Less.
- Looking for a Great Bible for Kids 6-9 Years Old
- The Long Reach of Timeless Truth
- Why Kids Need the Sufficiency of Christ.
- 12 Books Every Leader Should Read.
April 2016
- The 6 Truths About Multi-site Every Kid's Pastor Need to Know
- What Blogging for 9 Years has Taught Me.
- 4 powerful things criticism tells you about you.
- Why Revisionism Matters.
March 2016
- The Hidden Danger of Leading in a Large Church.
- Can Partnering with Parents Become a Reality?
- How the gospel keeps wonder alive.
- Why You Should Always Skip Your Kids' Baseball Games
- How to make an Easter egg hunt a family event.
- What to do When You Feel Stress
- Just Show Up
- Abraham Lincoln on Our Need for Prayer
- Why Parents Should Have Favorites
February 2016
- When God Whispers
- Overconfidence
- 6 Things parents need to know when talking about sex with their kids
- 9 years ago today
January 2016
- Teach your kids that their self-worth is tied to people's acceptance of them.
- Give your kids whatever they want.
- Why is this happening...
- Teach your kids there are no consequences for their behavior.
- Teach your kids that connections are more important than commitment
- Never show your daughter physical affection.
- How to ensure your kids will be on "The Bachelor"
- My Top 8 Books of 2015
- Kindness Matters
December 2015
- Books I read in 2015
- Looking for beta testers
- Parents don't miss Christmas
- What makes Taylor Swift so amazing
- The blessings in suffering
- Why we praise even in bad situations
- Please Pray For My Family
November 2015
- Never Waste A Crisis
- You Don't Need To Be Theologian To Teach Kids.
- 3 Reasons Why Kids Need Systematic Theology
- Gone but not forgotten.
- Christ The Sure And Steady Anchor
- Looking to keep kids safe online? Check out Circle
- How To Partner With Parents
October 2015
- 5 actions every preschool teacher needs to take.
- 10 Things Back To The Future Got Right.
- What do I tell my kids when bad things happen?
- Why Apple is slowly losing me
- 7 sure-fire way to make kids feel welcome in kids church.
- What is Tweetable Leadership?
September 2015
- How God Sees Our Future.
- Shaping a Faith that lasts
- How to reach your grandkids with the gospel. Part 2
- How to reach your grandkids with the gospel. Part 1
- Why kids church needs rewards.
August 2015
- The best way to make yourself irreplaceable.
- How to Use Memes in Youth Ministry
- Got questions about family ministry?
July 2015
- 3 ways pastors should engage the abortion issue
- Video of Gabriel speaking to Zachariah
- Free Bible Lesson Ephesians
- Manly things I like about Group's Kidmin Conference
- 3 Reason why your Kids ministry needs a YouTube Channel.
- What you need to know about Disciplr
- 5 links to help parents talk about LGBT issues
- The death of a goose.
- 5 shifts parents need to make in LGBTQ America
- Trend watching in Kidmin
June 2015
- Inside Out: Why Sadness Matters
- 7 must add books to your summer reading list
- The Gospel Truth About Kids Ministry
- New Kids Pastor Toolbox
May 2015
- How big is your church?
- The one thing I wish I knew 20 years ago
- The surprising truth behind creativity
- Transitional Leadership
- God is peace
- God is enough
- Spiritually Parenting Families
- God is provider
- God is our Source
- Authenticity, Intimacy and Holy Spirit Activity
- What I love about Group's Kidmin Conference
April 2015
- Justice shall roll down like water
- New curriculum you need to check out!
- The 10 Best Free Stock Photo Sites
- 3 Actions you must take to lead under insecure leaders
- What every family needs what every pastor wants!
March 2015
- The one surprising reason you should go to a conference
- Effective Leaders Make Decisions
- Weekend Reading 3-20-2015
- Creative ways to communicate to kids: Self Interview
- Why parents should pray more than anything they do
- Why we need to get rid of Daylight savings.
- Free Bible Lesson Galatians: The Book of Freedom
February 2015
- How to Kid Proof your iPad
- Weekend Reading 2-20-15
- The New Needs Friends
- Weekend Reading 2-13-2015
- 8 Years ago today.
- Ask Why and What not How
- Yancy releases her newest Praise Party Album
- 3 statements new bloggers need to hear
- Free Bible Lesson 1 & 2 Corinthians: The Book of Giving
- Weekend Reading 2-6-2015
- 5 tools I use at every conference.
- Gospel-Centered Counseling with Logos Bible Software
- A Christian Worldview isn't enough?
January 2015
- What I Need to Read? 1-30-2015
- We want methods, but we need mystery
- Resources for Kidmin
- Two Questions that change how you see everything
- Sola Scriptura in Kids and Youth Ministry
- Death of the 50% myth of marriage.
- 4 things I want my boys to learn before they start dating
- My favorite productivity tools for 2014
- Why resolutions matter more than you think
- Top Blog Posts of 2014
December 2014
- The Ten Best Books of 2014
- The books I read in 2014
- Do Saturday Emails Increase Sunday Church Attendance?
- The lost art of moment making.
- Free Bible Lesson Romans: Book of the Repentance
- 6 elements of kids worship
- Logos: Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament.
November 2014
- The Spiritual Discipline of Gratitude
- Will you go to hell for smoking marijuana?
- Are We Preparing Our Teens For Legal Weed?
- The Elements of Decision-making
- Advent resources for families
- How the Catechism keeps us from bad theology
- 4 keys to talking with your child
- Youth Culture and the New Relevance
- Looking to save time? Check out TextExpander
October 2014
- What is essential to being a leader?
- What your kids need to know about sin
- Are Miracles Real?
- Leaders focus relentlessly
- Parents use the Bible
- Parents distill truth don’t simplify it
- Free books from Logos
- Win $2,500 Worth of Children's Ministry Curriculum
- Top Family Ministry Blogs 2014
- Parents focus on what is true
September 2014
- Answer Your Kids Direct Questions With Direct Answers
- Looking for a parenting resource for Advent?
- Steve Jobs didn't let his kids use iPad's. Why do we?
- Apps that limit my child's time on the iPad.
- Why reading blogs, books and tweets may be bad for you.
- My Children's Pastor is Irrelevant
- Logos Review: The Bible Speaks Today: New Testament
August 2014
- My interview with Matt Perman on Gospel Productivity.
- The good and the bad of the ice bucket challenge
- 3 things I learned from Infuse: Thankfulness
- 3 things I learned from Infuse: Staff Level Volunteers
- What we can learn from Mark Driscoll and Acts 29
- 3 things I learned from Infuse: Ask Good Questions
- 3 Things I learned from Infuse
- Leading well means leading others well
July 2014
- Leader be proactive
- Ask Tim Keller Transcript via @Cambassador21
- New Currciulum from Hillsong Kids
- What's Best Next: Book Review
- Logos giveaway!
- The one thing that will instantly make you a better leader.
- Free Bible Lesson Acts: Book of the Holy Spirit
- Unbroken and not forgotten
- Grateful for my sponsors
June 2014
- North Star Catechism
- Why many leaders don't make a difference
- Looking for a fathers day video?
- 4 tips on getting the right things done everyday
- What is effectiveness?
- Partner with Parents? Try ClassDojo
- Parkour: Insanity of Bravery? You tell me.
- Free Bible Lesson John: Book of God's Love
May 2014
- Baby Dedication Idea: Jesus Storybook Bible
- How we stop short in the debate on Christians and alcohol
- Funerals are mandatory weddings are optional.
- 4 Tips to keep you blogging consistently
- Free Bible Lesson Luke: Book of salvation
- 3 quick keys to better blogging
- Mark Holmen - God is on the move
- Megan Marshman - God with us
- Jim Burns - Creating an intimate marriage
- Michelle Anthony - God Gives Sight
- Craig Jutila - God Restores
April 2014
- Would you take your kids to a porn shop?
- Why keeping our kids safe doesn't work
- 9 out 10 kids ages 8 to 16 have viewed Porn
- The gospel and our feelings
- How to export highlights from your Kindle.
- Free Bible Lesson Mark: Book of the servant
- How I save 3 to 4 hours a week.
- Sensational blog titles and true humility
- Lifechurch.tv launches Develop.me
March 2014
- AHA book review
- 1 thing that will make you a more effective leader
- Sally Lloyd-Jones on Christian worldview for kids
- My New eBook: The Student and Kids Curriculum Guide
- 7 Survival skills every kid needs
- The Gathering 2014
- 4 Things Every Decision Needs
- Does the church still matter?
- Resources to help you lead.
February 2014
- Free Bible Lesson Matthew: Book of the King
- Looking for a free Easter Curriculum? Try God to the Rescue
- 3 things every meeting needs
- International Critical Commentary from Logos
- 7 Years ago today
- Free Bible Lesson Malachi: Book of Obedience
- Guest Blog Post: Object Lesson: The Fruit of Love
- Great training and free resources
- How to read 40 books in a year.
January 2014
- How the gospel can be seen in the move Frozen: superficial vs. sacrificial love
- How the gospel can be seen in the move Frozen: The law says conceal grace says reveal
- How the gospel can be seen in the move Frozen: We are powerless to change
- Free Bible Lesson Zechariah: Angels are real
- A new Bible app for your kids
- Why Frozen was so captivating.
- Martin Luther King Jr. on the power of nonconformists.
- YouTube Friday: Explaining the Trinity.
- Everyone wants to be happy
- Free Bible Lesson Haggai: Putting God First
- Great Post: Do Your Kids Know The Gospel?
- My Favorite blogs posts by others in 2013
- The 10 best books I read in 2013
December 2013
- Win $1,000 worth of Elementary Teaching Resources
- My Reading list from 2013
- Top blog posts from samluce.com this year
- Free Bible Lesson Zephaniah: Book of God's Judgement
- The harm we do by "Ducking" the truth
- A well made video is worth 1000 stats
- Free Bible Lesson Habakkuk: Trust in the Lord
- 4 simple things to help you lead more simply
November 2013
- Thanksgiving is more than a holiday
- 4 Things to keep your marriage strong
- Free Bible Lesson Nahum: Book of God's patience
- 2 fantastic ideas families can use for advent
- Free Bible Lesson Micah: Book of Loneliness
- How Can we make Jesus famous?
- Make Jesus Famous?
- Free Curriculum from Hillsong Kids: iPromise
- Free Bible Lesson Jonah: Book of Repentance
October 2013
- 3 Surprising things I do to prepare to speak to kids.
- YouTube Friday: Jeff Gordan Test Drive
- Free Bible Lesson Obadiah: God hates pride
- Why I Can't Wait Until This Friday!
- Honoring Mom: Children's Church Activity
- Logos: John Piper Sermon Manuscript Library
- Free Bible Lesson Amos: The problem with lies
- 6 questions to help you rethink your family ministry needs
- 3 Simple things we ask parents to do.
- 3 Reasons why I love Group's Kidmin Conference
- Free Bible Lesson Joel: Book of Forgiveness
September 2013
- Free Bible Lesson Hosea: Can God TRUST You?
- Top 50 Family Ministry Blogs
- Playing for Keeps Book Launch today!
- 3 ideas to make church fun for kids.
- 15 Years of marriage!
- 5 way to survive a bad meeting.
- Looking for Curriculum? Let Brian Dollar "HELP"
- 3 things having no cell phone has taught me
- Just back from Kidshaper
August 2013
- 3 steps to avoid ministry auto pilot
- Why preparing to speak should make you nervous
- Free copy of Basic Christianity
- All of Tim Keller Sermon's? Yes Please.
- Free Bible Lesson Daniel: Book of Faith
- This Only Happens Once a Year. Don't Miss It.
July 2013
- You get what you do, not what you want.
- Free Bible Lesson Ezekiel: Standing for truth
- Why you should read old books.
- 3 relationships every Leader needs: A Coach
- 3 relationships every Leader needs: A Friend
- Book Review: The Fourth Fisherman.
- 3 relationships every Leader needs: A Savior
- YouTube Friday: Insaine Beatboxing
- 2 tools every church needs to use to accept credit cards
- How perpective rang my bell
June 2013
- YouTube Friday: Men Just Listen
- The 10 best iPad apps
- Branding your ministry 101.
- Get Matt Chandler's Explicit Gospel for free.
- Yancy's new CD has a very cool app
- The pastoral obsession with CEO's
- Directional Leadership: Leading Sideways
May 2013
- Directional Leadership - Gospel Leadership
- Directional Leadership: Leading Up
- Directional Leadership.
- Yancy's Roots for the Journey.
- How to memorize better.
- What Catechism?
- Mother's Day gift ideas for your Church?
- Are you a Christian Hedonist?
- Why Catechism?
- YouTube Friday: Whitney and Goats.
- Jim Wideman Google Easter Egg
- The three things that determine how far your team will go.
April 2013
- Next Generation Leadership Conference - KeyNote
- Bible Studies for Life: Remixed.
- Announcing Sabrina to the world.
March 2013
- Does Texting Hurt Your Grammar?
- Why I picked Feedly to be my new RSS reader
- Google kills Google Reader
- Gun violence and the Image of God.
- My Friend Yancy has a new CD out!
February 2013
- How to know for sure that you are saved: My interview with J.D. Greear (Part 2)
- Parents want to know what apps your kids are downloading?
- How to know for sure that you are saved: My interview with J.D. Greear
- Making social media work for you.
- 3 things creative people struggle with
- Orange week: Is your church co-dependent?
- Helping your boys understand what makes a man.
- So God made a Farmer by Paul Harvey.
- Please visit my great sponsors.
- J. I. Packer's Advice to young authors - From Desiring God.
January 2013
- 3 Things Every Kids Pastor Wants Their Youth Pastor to Know
- What would you tell the next generation of Church leaders?
- When God gives you influence what are you going to say?
- Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
- Why you need volunteers, why they need you. CPC 2013 Breakout #2
- How to communicate so kids can understand. - CPC 2013 Breakout #1
- The Supremacy of Christ in marriage and family
- Looking for a Christ Centered VBS?
- Setting goals for your team.
- What goals and dog food have in common.
- The difference between a goal and a new years resolution.
December 2012
- Top 10 blog posts of 2012
- A few books I'm planning on reading in 2013
- The 10 best books I read this year.
- What an IRS Audit and Christmas Traditions have in common.
- Something you know that the Mayans didn't
- It's Jim Wideman's Birthday Today!
- Why you need to come back to - CPC Orlando
November 2012
- How to teach kids to live a prayer filled life.
- Free Bible Lesson Lamentations: God's Mercy
- Facebook Family Night Article from K!
- Retro Post: How can you increase your Ministries presence on Facebook?
- Great app to help with your child's spiritual development.
- Signs of Political Idolatry by Tim Keller
- Text and save!
- Are your kids to materialistic?
October 2012
- A video you MUST watch before the election.
- Candy Trading 101
- Why leading adults is the same as leading kids.
- Retro Post: Performance skills – 101
- Retro Post - Guest Blogger: Introducing Funny Man Dan.
- How the gospel informs our pain.
- How to criticize others well.
- Lifeway's Kids Ministry Conference: Leading for the long haul.
- Lifeway Kid Ministry Conference: 5 things every leader has to get right
- Leading Volunteers 101
- Group Kidmin Conference Notes - Anatomy of a Team
- Group Kidmin Notes: Leading Volunteers well
- Group Kidmin Notes: Inside the mind of your volunteers
September 2012
- What a Children's Bible taught me about faith
- Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing - Coming Soon
- 3 reasons I can't wait for Group's KidMin Conference
- Why our churches need more fathers and fewer teachers.
- CMLeaders Conference
- The RNC the DNC and the Gospel.
- Only 50 Hours Remaining
August 2012
- 3 things I love about the next conference I'm going to.
- Leadership books every leader needs to read and re-read.
- 6 questions every leader needs to ask after a big event.
- What the Gospel demands of parents
- Are Mormons really Christians?
- When should I talk to my kid about sex?
- The difference between leading kids and leading adults in worship.
- How do I explain abortion to my kids?
- Why you should attend LifeWay's Kids Ministry Conference
July 2012
- Why you should attend CMLeaders Conference!
- Why you should attend Group's Kidmin Conference!
- 4 Things to keep in mind when deciding what conference is right for you.
- Retro Post: How to tweak minute to win it games for kidmin
- Retro Post: Guerrilla Parenting: Tattling vs. Telling
- How to become a kids Pastor.
- My new favorite website
June 2012
- Are youth ministry and kids ministry unbiblical?
- YouTube Friday: Wisdom Teeth and Carmen
- INCM's Shift in global focus.
- How to help your kids be more innovative.
- Everything that can be invented has been invented
- YouTube Friday: Coldplay Paradise
- How to keep your kids from becoming materialistic.
- 4 Ways to clarify the gospel when communicating to kids.
- YouTube Friday: Playing with your kids
- Retro Post: The Children's Pastor score card
- Bill Cosby on being yourself
- Free Bible Lesson Jeremiah: Book of Idol Worship
- The Importance of Being Foolish
May 2012
- Why my kids never asked Jesus into their hearts.
- Podcasts you need to listen to
- Downcast - Great podcasting app
- Influence
- Asking the right questions
- Best Bible for Preschoolers!
- Treasuring Christ
- REdefining Maturity (Part 2)
- REdefining Maturity (Part 1)
- This Ends in 22 Hours
April 2012
- Isn't Orange just about Virtues?
- Why volunteers don't attend your meetings.
- Samluce.com turns 5.
- All Things Eric Newman Week 1
- Are you Insecure?
- YouTube Friday: Amazing Good Friday Video
- A new blog I'm following.
- Leadership matters.
- Who is Eric Newman?
- Why leaders build silos
March 2012
- The Eric Trap
- Leadership Fundamentals.
- The Lifecycle of good leadership
- It’s not who follows you it’s who you follow.
- What you build speaks louder than what you tweet.
- Why You Might Experience Serious Regret this Thursday
- Want your kids to memorize scripture? I do.
- Key thoughts from The Gospel Project
- How the Gospel effects “Professional Christians”
- The Gospel Project Webcast Live Now!
- The influence of parents' church attendance on their children.
- People I met at CPC: Heather & Elton McMillan
- The Zapped Curriculum Review
- CPC San Diego Recap
- Lifeway's Gospel Project
- Napkin Conference Wrap Up.
- Stop, Collaborate and listen
February 2012
- Experience Napkin 2012 Online
- Winners of Zonderkids Jesus Storybook Bible Curriculum
- Why do you do what you do?
- Free Curriculum for Easter: God to the Rescue
- Why we wrote our own Easter Curriculum?
- Looking for a Christ Centered Easter Curriculum?
- The only contacts app you will ever need.
- 5 Years ago today
- Christians today are Theological idiots.
- Why the stat stating 90% of kids leave their faith is dead wrong.
January 2012
- Last chance to register for Napkin's reduced rate
- Conferences I'm attending: Napkin
- Best Attendance
- Are you a curious leader or a fearful leader?
- Awakening Youth Conference
- My reading list for 2012
- CPC Orlando Roundup - the essential list
- Wrapping up CPC Orlando 2012
- Kidz Blitz
- If I win you win!
- And the winner is.....
- First night at Children's Pastor's Conference Orlando
- Why I’m excited about CPC this year
- Who's Blogging for CPC?
- My Brother, my Friend
- Enter the ONLY144 Giveaway!
- Top 10 posts of 2011
- How I use social Media.
December 2011
- Kidmin Resources you need to know about.
- Merry Christmas Everyone.
- See you at CPC!
- Jesus is Everything!
- Something exciting coming soon!
- YouTube Friday: Christmas Dinner
- Innovation in Ministry
- 7 apps every leader should have
- What is Champions Club?
- 5 Reasons Why I love the Path
- First steps in starting a special needs ministry.
- CD release Tuesday.
- 7 reasons why Churches fail special needs kids.
- Top 10 Blog Posts for November
- Get a free iPhone, iPad app for your ministry.
- Why buy toys when you can rent them?
- Conferences I'm Attending: CPC Orlando
- Black Friday, Chick-fil-a, and Leadership (part 2)
November 2011
- Black Friday, Chick-fil-a, and Leadership (part 1)
- The Rizers New Album: Rise Up
- Happy Thanksgiving Everyone: Practice Thankfulness.
- Understanding Preteens
- YouTube Friday: Grow Up
- What's the true meaning of Christmas.
- This is the week to save money.
- Get to Texas if you can
- Top 10 Posts for October
- Guerrilla Parenting: What Makes You Feel Better?
October 2011
- Guerrilla Parenting: No Boundaries
- Guerrilla Parenting: Give Them What They Want.
- Guerilla Parenting: Wrong Priorities
- Guerrilla Parenting: Self-Control
- Guerrilla Parenting - The Power of Family: Intro
- Qualities of an Exceptional Preteen Leader
- Guest post from preteen guru Nick Diliberto
- Conferences I'm going to: Austin Illuminate.
- The Yankees lost and so did I.
- 50 gigabytes of storage space for free?
- Free Bible Lesson Isaiah: How God views the poor
- Why teams fail
- Register and Win!
- Prezi: Building great teams
- 24-HOUR SALE HAS BEGUN!
- Group Kidmin Conference: Never Serve alone notes
- Group Kidmin Conference: Friday Highlights
- Homeless Blogger: Conference Roommates
- Blogging from Group's Kidmin Conference
- Hands down best productivity software program on the internet
- 5 simple ways to manage your email inbox and stay focused
- Use a this checklist or die.
September 2011
- YouTube Friday: One of my favorite clips of all time
- 7 tips to keep your kids safe on mobile devices.
- 10 proven ways to keep kids safe online.
- YouTube Friday: Angry Birds Addicts
- Which conference is the greatest?
- Roll Tide: 10 things I learned about leadership from College Football
- Guest Post: Announcing Nashville Illuminate
- Conferences I’ll be attending: Group Kidmin Conference.
- My pirate face.
- Happy Anniversary My Love.
August 2011
- Top 10 posts of August
- Have fun.
- Free Bible Lesson Song of Solomon: The Book of God's Love
- How to Communicate to kids - Illuminate Birmingham.
- Conferences I'll be attending: Illuminate Birmingham
- Only 23 Hours Remaining
- Why you need more change in your life.
- And the winner of the Only144 hour Sale giveway......
- My baby girl turned 2!
- 7 Reasons you need to go to Illuminate - Roll Tide and War Eagle.
- 7 Reasons you need to go to Illuminate - Roll Tide and War Eagle.
- $97 for $1,074 worth of Children's Ministry Resources
- Living Generously.
- Guard your heart...
July 2011
- YouTube Friday: Youth pastor's aren't the only ones with smoking hot wives.
- Winner of The Legacy Path book give away
- Free Bible Lesson Ecclesiastes: Emptiness without God.
- Retro Post: How to change Minute to Win It Games for kidmin.
- Why everyone should use Google+
- How can the church use Google+
- Just say NO!
- Spotify: Spot on
- Legacy Path: An Interview with Brian Haynes.
- Winners of the K! magazine giveaway
- Soapbox: Sons or Fathers?
- Retro Post: Don't be a nerd!
- Retro Post: Why are kids pastors so lame?
- Retro Post: Being an abnormal kidmin is ok.
- Big News From K! Magazine.
- Retro Post: What are most churches looking for in a children's pastor.
- Retro Post: What does it take to be a children's pastor?
- Retro Post: So you want to become a Children's Pastor.
June 2011
- Jim Carey on Canada
- YouTube Friday: Matthew, Mark, Luke and Texas
- Samluce.com Site Sponsors
- What will you kids remember when your gone?
- YouTube Friday: Father's day and TED talks
- Reality Rant.
- Anatomy of a team.
- Why the Mavs won and the Heat lost.
- Love Wins?
- Retro Post: Seven people in the front seat of a pickup truck doesn't work.
- Retro Post: You should never order seafood at a hamburger joint in Nebraska.
- Giveaway Tuesday: Last Chance #kidmin Leadership
- Retro Post: You'll always get a zit on important days.
- Retro Post:No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats!
- Retro Post: Wisdom of Kids
- Top Posts for May
- YouTube Friday: Tim Keller
- Why is there an expiration date on Youth Pastors?
May 2011
- Give Away Tuesday: Kidmin Leadership
- CMXlive.com Live Broadcast
- Free Online Collaboration Tool: Teamlab.com
- 10 Best iPad Apps for kids
- YouTube Friday: Smooth Criminal
- Group Kidmin Conference: Why you should register. What you can save.
- Guerrilla Parenting: Active time vs. Passive time
- Best ipad app: Flipboard for the iPad
- My 1000th Post and thoughts on #kidmin Community
- YouTube Friday: Davis/Poole Highlight Reel
- Elements of Kidmin worship.
- 10 ways to get the most out of any conference you attend.
- YouTube Friday: Why Men Don't Help In Kids Church
- Homeschool, Public School, Christian School: Conclusion
April 2011
- 4 reasons I WOULD send my kid to Christian School
- 4 reasons NOT to send your kids to Christian School.
- 4 Reasons to Homeschool your kids.
- 4 reasons NOT to Homeschool your kids.
- 4 reasons NOT to send your kids to Public school
- A conference created for Volunteers
- 4 Reasons to send your kids to public school
- Lead, Innovate or get left behind.
- Where should I send my kid to school?
- Happy 4th Birthday Samluce.com
- Be Attitudes Revisited: Be Consistent
- Be Attitudes Revisited: BE ENGAGING
- Be Attitudes Revisited: Be Courteous
- Be Attitudes Revisited: Be Courteous
- Be Attitudes Revisited: BE SAFE
- Uptown Be Attitudes
- YouTube Friday: Sesame Street
- Flyte: PreTeen Curriculum
- Top ten posts from March 2011
- Seth Godin on why go to conferences
- My Favorite Music videos.
- 7 basic rules of Twitter etiquette
- YouTube Friday: Boom Boom Pow
March 2011
- Guerrilla Parenting: Tattling vs. Telling
- Guerrilla Parenting: Talk to your kids through play.
- Guerrilla Parenting
- Don't vote for me. Vote for Jared.
- Guest Post: Avoiding the cone of parenting shame.
- How to download or embed a vimeo video
- 6 ways I overcome writers block.
- Big thanks to Group Publishing!
- I love baseball.
- YouTube Friday: God to the Rescue
- Free Easter Curriculum: God To The Rescue
- Our idea for a Collaborative Kidmin Curriculum.
- Why we wrote our own curriculum?
- Dealing with Doubt
- Hijacking Quotes
- YouTube Friday: Sesame Street
- Photos From Facebook Family Fun Night
- What is a Facebook Evangelist?
- FMD and Me.
- How can you increase your Ministries presence on Facebook?
- How to use Facebook to connect with families.
- Is Kidmin Ameri-centric?
- YouTube Friday: Read to your kids everyday
- Need a Christ Centered Easter Curriculum?
- What matters now in Children's Ministry: Global Edition
- Free Bible Lessons: Proverbs "The Book of Wisdom"
- Top 10 posts from February 2011
- ParentLife Magazine winner
February 2011
- Podcasts I listen to regularly.
- YouTube Friday: Love Lost
- ParentLife Magazine: Review and Giveaway
- Do me a favor...
- Guest Post: Thinking Big When Your Ministry Feels Small
- Recipe or a Formula
- Recipe or a Formula
- Almighty Bible Winners
- YouTube Friday: Portlandia
- Blogging A beginners guide: 10 ways to grow your blog.
- Our Spring Worship Set.
- Blogging: A Beginners Guide: What?
- Give Away Tuesday: The Almighty Bible
- The Almighty Bible Review.
- Happy Valentines Day.
- Blogging: A beginners guide: Why?
- Four years ago today.
- YouTube Friday: Michael P. Vigilante III
- My problem with faith.
- Orange Week: Rules of Engagement
- TakeTen: Talking to your Kids about sex
- Parenting Advice: Pick your kids friends
- You might be a redneck kidmin if.....
- Snowpocalypse 2011
- How to stay warm if you live in the South.
- Parenting Advice: Be a bridgebuilding parent.
January 2011
- Parenting Advice: Know your kid's strengths and weaknesses.
- Looking for a VBS alternative do an Open House.
- Alex Brown, Extreme Home Makeover and Websefely.com
- YouTube Friday: Parenting Advice "Do what I say not what I do"
- Parenting Advice: Consistency matters more than anything
- Parenting Advice: How do adults react to your kids?
- Parenting Advice: Why not What.
- A Thin Man's Guide to losing Weight: Chapter 4.
- I'm not a perfect parent.
- YouTube Friday: Carmen and Unicorns
- Helping kids love the bible: Stay one bible ahead
- My take on the Fammin vs. Kidmin debate
- Free Bible Lessons: Psalms "The book of Worship"
- YouTube Friday: The Man With A Golden Voice
- What I learned from Jim Wideman Pt.4
- What I learned from Jim Wideman Pt.3
- What I learned from Jim Wideman Pt.2
- What I learned from Jim Wideman Pt. 1
- Grace and the Gospel: Two things every kid needs.
- 10 people that impacted me most this year
- The ten best books I read this year.
December 2010
- Top Ten YouTube Friday Videos
- Top ten favorite links I found this year.
- My ten favorite posts of 2010
- Top 10 posts of 2010
- Guest Post for Lifeway Kids
- Bonus Youtube Friday: Jesus is a Liberal Democrat
- YouTube Friday: Christmas
- Winner of the Lads Curriculum is...
- Christmas Giveaway Day 3: The Lads
- Winner of the Rizers CD is.....
- Christmas Giveaway Day 2: The Rizers
- Winner of the Patrick Lencioni Book...
- Blogging Christmas Giveaway.
- Michael Chanley is Fakekidmin
- Leading Well.
- Who is FakeKidmin?
- What Defines You?
- Retro Post: Not knowing what to do about Santa.
- How we use XP3 for our 5th and 6th graders.
- Why I think the Kidmin Conference could be a game changer.
- TakeTen: Large Group Programing with Stephen Posey
- Happy Birthday Jesus Party Next Week!
November 2010
- Guest Blog Post Over At Lifeway Kids
- Great Kidmin tool: Group Me
- Spiritual Parenting: An awakening for today's families.
- Helping parents lead their kids to Christ.
- TakeTen: Rewards in Kids Ministry with Christiaan VandenHeuvel
- YouTube Friday: Skithouse Blind Cricket
- Retro Post: #102 Stuff Kids Pastors Like: Acronyms
- A word from my great sponsors.
- YouTube Wednesday? Generation Conference
- Don't believe your own bio.
- Free Bible Lesson: JOB
- YouTube Friday: Two Conferences One Week.
- Retro Post: Pitfalls of Kids Ministry: Theology: Story vs. Fact
- Retro Post: The Devil Senses Potential Why Don't We?
- The Power of Christ In Me.
- Winner of Yancy's: Stars, Guitars, and Megaphone Dreams
- Yancy’s Stars, Guitars, and Megaphone Dreams
- Why we all love Sam Luce!!!
- Cover song and Conference prep
- Amazed by my Uptown team!
- Give Away Tuesday: Yancy's New Album
- Three Signs of a Miserable Job: Anonymity
October 2010
- Three Signs of a Miserable Job: Irrelevance
- YouTube Friday: The Rent Is Too Damn High.
- TakeTen: Being Bi-Vocational with Jared Massey
- Three Signs of a Miserable Job: Immeasurement
- Three Signs of a Miserable Job.
- YouTube Friday: David Crowder Band’s New Music Video ‘Shine’
- Things we are doing for Christmas in Uptown: Uptown Christmas Catalog.
- I Love My Yankees!
- Things we are doing for Christmas in Uptown: Happy Birthday Jesus Party
- Free Bible Lesson: Esther
- Kids need cool stuff too.
- Illuminate Conference at Gateway Church in Austin Texas.
- TakeTen: Why Blog? with Tony Kummer
- YouTube Friday: I Hate Cats.
- Most recent Del.icio.us links
- Retro Post: Enjoy the Strawberries
- Free Bible Lesson: Nehemiah
- Stuff kidspastors like #106 - Hand prints
- Retro Post: Kidmin 101: resources
- YouTube Friday: Galatians Bumper
- TakeTen: The Role of Technology in Kidmin
- Why numbers matter in Kidmin.
- Free Bible Lesson: Ezra
- Red resources: Tools to help families stay gospel centered.
September 2010
- imakidmin: find your element
- Retro Post: What the church can learn from Ratatouille: Volunteer management
- Happy Birthday Baby!
- Jump starting parent/kid connections.
- My new intern: Rebekah Guiney
- Designing stuff for kids ministry
- Retro Post: To Trick or To Treat.
- Planning an event: Steps I take
- YouTube Friday: Best Political Speech Ever
- Lessons for the long haul: Jim Wideman
- Free Bible Lesson: 1 & 2 Chronicles
- Winners of the Lads curriculum.
- Proud of our Team!
- New podcast over at ministry-to-children.com
- Retro Post: Should kids bring their Bible's to church.
- YouTube Friday: Swagger Wagon
- Lessons for the long haul: Build a team.
- Lessons for the long haul: Be a self feeder
- Give Away Tuesday: The Lads Curriculum
- Lessons for the long haul: Motivation
- Lessons for the long haul: Dealing with Discouragement
- YouTube Friday: The best things come in small packages
- Lessons for the long haul: Calling
- Lessons for the long haul
- Free Bible Lesson: 1 & 2 Kings
August 2010
- A word from our sponsors: Ministry-to-Children.com
- YouTube Friday: Why the North won the war
- What I tried differently at camp this year.
- Message to Parents
- Camp Update - Day 2
- Camp Update Day 1
- Free Bible Lesson: 1 & 2 Samuel
- Summer Camp: Resources
- Summer Camp: What works.
- Winner of God’s Kids Worship: Modern Worship CD's
- Summer Camp: What works and doesn't work
- YouTube Friday: Rembering the Good Ole' days
- Free Bible Lesson: Book of Ruth
- Give Away Tuesday: God’s Kids Worship: Modern Worship
- A word from our Sponsors: Christianity Cove
- Meet the Rizers
- Youtube Friday: Doggie Worship
- Free stuff every kids pastor need to know about.
- Review: Sun Stand Still
- PayJr. = 21st Centry Allowance
- Winner of SPK Curriculum
- CardStar: Self checkin with your smart phone.
July 2010
- How We Tweek Minute to Win It Games for kidmin.
- Free Bible Lesson – Judges “Heros”
- Churches I'd go to if I didn't work there: Hillsong
- YouTube Friday: Run for Love146
- Free Nursery Paging System.
- Stuff Kids Pastor's Like #105: Candy and Drugs.
- A word from our sponsor - Integrity Music
- 50% off Bible Bucks 2.0
- What is Bible Bucks 2.0?
- Free Bible Lesson - Joshua "Boldness"
- My latest wedding: Licia and Nick
- Review: The Lads Kids Curriculum.
- YouTube Friday: Purity and Puppetry
- A word from our sponsers: Jonathan Martin Creative.
- Free Bible Lessons: Deuteronomy "Faith and Obedience"
- I Love NY
- YouTube Friday: And you thought Noah was happy to see a rainbow.
- Free Bible Lessons: Numbers “Book of Wanderings”
- Top 25 iPhone Apps for Kids
- 10 Commandments of Online Safety for kids.
- Online Safety for parents.
- YouTube Friday: Butt Drugs
- Free Bible Lessons: Leviticus "Book of Holiness"
- Review of Shout Praises Kids Curriculum
June 2010
- Stuff Kid's Pastors Like #104 - Forcing Object Lessons
- And you thought twitter was a waste of time.
- Free Bible Lessons - Exodus "Jesus My Redeemer"
- Free Bible Lesson - Genesis "God Created Me"
- What I learned from my little survey.
- The winner of my biggest give away to date…..
- About My Readers.
- YouTube Friday: Future Funk
- Upping the ante
- #fail: Not functioning under authority.
- Review: God's Kids Worship
- Biggest Give Away Yet!
- YouTube Friday: The church I see
- Caring more about fun than safety.
- Not including parents.
- Do you lie about yourself online?
- Books I've read recently and you should to.
- Check out a new blog.
- Microsoft wins the bid to package the new iPhone 4.
- Modesty guidelines for girls.
- Innovative tool for Children's ministry
- What we can learn from Steve Job's Keynotes
- The pursuit of happiness.
- What to do when your web-based check in crashes.
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
- What kind of story are you writing?
May 2010
- Winner Winner Chicken Dinner: SPK Promises
- Looking for a great iPhone app for you church?
- YouTube Friday: Blake Bergstrom Punk'd
- Since when did faith become a 4 letter word?
- You are what you measure
- Lost remembered 24 forgotten-already.
- Give Away Tuesday: Shout Praises Kids: Promises
- Product Review: Shout Praises Kids:Promises
- The Children's Pastor score card
- Give away Tuesday: Free collaboration book.
- YouTube Friday: Facebook in real life.
- Stuff Kid's Pastors like #105: Superheros
- What if you could give away 15 tasks for a small fee?
- Crowdsourcing your blog.
- Free Audio Book: The Hole in our Gospel
- YouTube Friday: Barking Man
- Last Session - Donald Miller
- Parenting beyond your capacity
- How to Customize Facebook For Your Children's Ministry.
- Guest Post: Brent Peak on Customizing a Facebook Fanpage.
April 2010
- Practically Improving Preschool.
- It's going to get noisy over the next few days.
- YouTube Friday: Stuff Men Like
- If I didn't work there I'd attend there: Redeemer Church
- YouTube Friday: Sign that the Apocalypse is near
- Links for Nerds and Cool kids
- Happy 3rd Birthday!
- Stuff Christian's Like #777 Things for Free
- You need to read these books!
- The Lads Band Give-away Winner.
- YouTube Friday: Don't Commit Adultery Kids!
- Give Away Tuesday!
- Undercover Boss: Small vs. Big
- I am 2
- YouTube Thursday? Easter Video
March 2010
- Stuff Children's Pastors like #103
- Undercover Boss: Systems matter
- Redeemer.tv Launch
- Me David Them Goliath!
- YouTube Friday: Why I don't use puppets.
- Undercover Boss: Thank people specifically
- Undercover Boss: Listen
- What show is a must watch for anyone in #kidmin?
- Fundamentals of Children’s Ministry
- YouTube Friday: Christian Side Hug
- It's a good thing I didn't write the Bible
- What do you want to be famous for?
- Vote for me!
- Facebook: Fan Page vs. Group Page
- YouTube Friday: After Rapture Pet Care
- Collaborate: Family + Church
- Recently: Sites I've bookmarked.
- What I learned from Infuse
- Recently: Books I've Read
- Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
- Book Review: Formational Children’s Ministry by Ivy Beckwith
- Last Chance to Vote for the #kidmin challenge winner.
- YouTube Friday: Regina Spektor
- Milestones: School Transitions
- Vector Magic
- More on How and Why.
- Innovation: Asking the Right Question
- Church Marketing: Addicted to new.
- VOTE for your favorite #kidmin Challenge Response
February 2010
- Tank Tops and Flip Flops and the art of Contentment.
- If you could go to any church? Would you go to yours?
- Children's Ministry 101: Building a Team
- Kidmin road trip overview Part 3
- Are you supposed to be a Children's Pastor?
- Kidmin road trip overview Part 2
- Kidmin road trip overview Part 1
- Best Vector File Sites on the net.
- Kidmin Roadtrip
- Looking for Matt McKee?
- Iconic Values
- New Children's Ministry Volunteer Shirts
- YouTube Friday: Show me what I'm looking for
- Washed with tears.
- The Role of the Holy Spirit in the life of Child
- What is the Holy Spirits Role in Children's Ministry
- Francis Chan:The Forgotten God
- Kidmin Challenge Update
- Um...how to...er...stop using fillers
- Performance Skills 102 - Glorified Um's
- Random Rules for Ideas.
January 2010
- YouTube Friday: Post-it Stop Motion
- The Exceptional Presenter
- What are you building?
- 100 Recruiting tips in 100 Characters or less.
- YouTube Friday: Living Water International
- Giveaway Tuesday: ReThink Exit Interviews.
- Two new ideas I am trying to connect with parents.
- Interview with Dallas Willard (part 3 of 3)
- Interview with Dallas Willard (part 2 of 3)
- Interview with Dallas Willard (part 1 of 3)
- The 24 laws of Jack Bauer's 24
- YouTube Friday: The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
- Crazy Love
- Do you want your kids to be brave or safe?
- Dear New Children's Pastor
- Guest Blogger: Jonathan Cliff
December 2009
- Top Posts of 2009
- Merry Christmas From the Luce Family!
- YouTube Friday: Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa
- Welcome Home, welcome home
- Innovation in Kids Ministry
- Not knowing what to do about Santa.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-05
- YouTube Friday: Jesus Storybook Bible
- Superman Ice Cream
- Guest Blogger: Introducing Matt McKee.
- Performance skills - 101
November 2009
- Guest Blogger: Introducing Funny Man Dan.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-28
- Looking to next year: Conferences
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-21
- Guest Blogging for FMD today
- The Best of New York City
- And the winners are.....
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-14
- YouTube Friday: World's Biggest Alarm Clock
- And Every Parent says "God Bless You Google"
- 4 Areas of Children's Ministry Excellence
- Google Wave: Kidmin Style
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-07
- YouTube Friday: Yankees and Passion
- Creating Fliers. Kids Ministry 101
- Hide and Seek
October 2009
- And the Google Wave winners are......
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-31
- YouTube Friday: Napkin Conference
- A Free tool for Parents and Kids Pastors.
- GiveAway Tuesday: Free Wave Invite
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-24
- YouTube Friday: Andy Stanley dancing
- What Resources do I use? Kids Ministry 101
- Do you have vision? Kids Ministry 101
- And the winner is.....
- Are you called? Kids Ministry 101
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-17
- YouTube Friday: The Power of Fun
- Luke 15 and Disposable Everything
- GiveAway Tuesday: Free VBS curriculum
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-10
- YouTube Friday: Wishing I was here
- Resources to help your kids read their bibles.
- Teaching kids to live beyond themselves
- Lost in the house.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-03
- YouTube Friday: Prodigal God
September 2009
- Why is Ch**ch [email protected] a dirty word?
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-26
- YouTube Friday: Salvation Message By Video
- Top Ten Kids Ministry Resources: Top 10 List
- Top 10 Kids Ministry Resources: #1 The Collaborating Community
- Top 10 Kids Ministry Resources: #2 Jim Wideman
- Top 10 Kids Ministry Resources: #3 Google Wave
- Thankful!
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-19
- Top 10 Kids Ministry Resources: #4 Andy Stanley's leadership Podcast
- Top 10 Kids Ministry Resources: #5 Bible Bucks 2.0
- Top 10 Kids Ministry Resources: #6 K! Magazine
- Top 10 Kids Ministry Resources: #7 ProPresenter
- Top 10 Kids Ministry Resources: #8 The Effective Executive
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-12
- YouTube Friday: Happy Birthday Jesus
- Top 10 Kids Ministry Resources: #9 Hillsong Worship for Kids.
- Top 10 Kids Ministry Resources: #10 The iPhone
- My Son's First Day
- My Top Ten Kids Ministry Resources.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-05
- September Cheat Sheets
- YouTube Friday: Psalty
- Only In New York!
- Things that make me feel old
- I'm on Alltop!
- Power of story.
August 2009
- 18 minutes to productivity.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-29
- YouTube Friday: BlindSide
- KidsCamp 2009
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-22
- YouTube Friday: (on Monday) A Well Rested Mother
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-15
- Customer Service Chapter 5: Nordstrom's (Do you go the extra mile?)
- Customer Service Chapter 4: Starbucks (Are you creating an environment?)
- Customer Service Chapter 3: Neiman Marcus (Are you authentic?)
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-08
- Customer Service Chapter 2: Lowes' (Do you have a lot of stuff and no experts?)
- Customer Service Chapter 1: Tiffany's (Do your values translate to a personal level?)
- Customer Service: Forward
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-01
July 2009
- YouTube Friday: Traped in the Drive-Thru
- August 252Basics Cheatsheets
- Kids Ministry - Perception Vs. Reality.
- VBS all year round?
- Announcing Claudia to the world.
- Family Skills: What Makes You Feel Better?
- Claudia "iThink"
- Family Skills: No Boundaries
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-25
- Family Skills: Giving your kids what they want
- YouTube Friday: Prank Wars.
- Family Skills: Wrong Priorities
- Family Skills: Self-Control
- Family Skills: Importance of Family
- Bible Bucks 2.0 Objections
- Announcing Bible Bucks 2.0!
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-18
- YouTube Friday: I need a Napkin
- Parenting Skills: Sibiling Rivalry
- Parenting Skills: Intro
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-11
- YouTube Friday: Kids Retell The Crucifixion
- Tuesday Talk with Ryan Frank.
- Summer = Podcasts
- My Life as a Twitter Fugitive.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-04
- YouTube Friday: Napkin Conference
- Great Quote: Peter F. Drucker
June 2009
- A Thin Man’s Guide to Losing Weight: Chapter 3
- Pitfalls of Kids Ministry: Theology: Story vs. Fact
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-27
- YouTube Friday: Lifechurch jokes with Perry Noble
- Forgiveness CheatSheets
- Do You Have A Farm System? You Should.
- Happy Fathers Day Sam
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-20
- The Devil Senses Potential Why Don't We?
- And the winner is.......
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-13
- Things I Learned On A Hospital Cot.
- YouTube Friday: Satan's SexEd
- Things Kids Ministry Can Learn from A Hospital
- Free Book: Less Clutter. Less Noise.
- Personal Post: My boy Gianni.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-06
- Gina McClain on cultural shifts.
- New Blog In Town.
- 10 Things Every Kids Pastor Should Know about Pixar's UP.
May 2009
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-30
- Q&A With Kem Meyer
- #102 Stuff Kids Pastors Like
- Big Thought
- The Virtue of Cheating.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-23
- YouTube Friday: Small Group Training Video
- #101 Stuff Kids Pastors Like
- Why I love my church.
- Start Simple Stay Simple.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-16
- Should Women be leading? Nancy Beach
- Links I like: New (to me anyway) and Very cool finds
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-09
- Caption Please? Bull Fighter
- TakeTen: Episode 1 "Is VBS dead?"
- Don't Be a Nerd. (put down your fannie pack and walk away)
- How to be a Problem-Solver
- Rules of Engagement: Art of Communication (Pt 3)
- Rules of Engagement: Media and the church. (Pt 2)
- Rules of Engagement:The Art of Communication (Pt 1)
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-02
- What Matters most to New Parents?
- Live Bloging General Session 4
April 2009
- Bucket List Check: John Acuff: Stuff Christians Like
- Big impact Small groups
- I just punched Sam Luce...
- Preschool Worship: The Gateway Drug.
- My First Tweet Up.
- Free Book Winner!
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-25
- Elevate Jr. Brainstorm (Part 1)
- Free Book!
- New Diggs
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-18
- YouTube Friday: Andy Stanley is so the Man.
- Tale of two signs.
- 10,000 Hours
- Happy Bloggy birthday to me.
- Operating system focused at kids.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-11
- Great Quote Great Blog
- Why everyone needs to know a New Yorker.
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-04
- YouTube Friday: Greater Than
- A Thin Man's Guide to Losing Weight: Chapter 2
March 2009
- Why I.........twitter.
- Why I..........Laugh (The Art of Funny)
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-28
- YouTube Friday: Twouble with Twitters
- Links I used for my discipleship group.
- Why I..........Trust
- Guest Blog:Why I.........Use Social Networks
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-21
- YouTube Friday: 25 Things I hate about Facebook
- Why I.....Blog
- Mr. 3000
- WHY I.......
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-15
- The End of Evangelicalism?
- My New Really Really BIG Review
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-08
- YouTube Friday: Smells like Happy Birthday
- The Demands of Love
- Tribute to Suess.
- Keeping Kids Safe: What to do with Sex Offenders.
February 2009
- YouTube Friday: Coldplay and Puppets.
- Keeping kids safe at church.
- Keeping kids safe on the internet.
- Keeping kids safe this week
- StickyStreet.com: Bible Bucks 2.0
- Pimp Your Twitter Page.
- Orange Week: Why Orange is the New Green.
- Social Media's Role in Kids' Ministry.
- YouTube Friday: Where's Joaquin Phoenix?
- When Faith and Doubt Collide.
- Orange Tweetup!
- Tools of the Children's Ministry Trade.
- A Thin Man's Guide To Losing Weight: Chapter 1
- YouTube Friday: Orange Promo Video
- Kids Ministry #HashTag
- Why Everyone Needs to Twitter!
January 2009
- What the church can Learn from Ted Haggard
- The missing link.
- Voluntwitter
- What makes small groups connect?
- A Thin Man's Guide To Losing Weight: Introduction
- YouTube Friday: Things not to say to your wife.
- Site Visit to The Fathers House.
- History
- New segment starts this Week.
- YouTube Friday: Kids' Rock
- What needs to die!
- Predictions of a Former 24 Junkie.
- What is God going to do in 2009?
- Advent Conspiracy
- YouTube Friday: Dominick the Donkey
- Resources for Parents.
- Protected: Bible story for comment and Ideas for 01/11/09
- Questions for your kids.
- You might be a parent if.....
- Most Commented on Posts.
December 2008
- Lifehacker's Top 20 Top 10's of 2008
- Best movies of 2008
- Best Inventions of 2008
- Biggest news stories from my perspective in 2008
- My most viewed posts of 2008
- Lists and the new Year
- Bible story for comment and Ideas for 01/04/09
- Questioning VBS.
- YouTube Friday: Can I get a witness?
- Recent Links saved on Delicious.
- Anyone else want to throw some tea in the ocean?
- Best Christmas message I have ever heard!
- More Evidance of Global Warming.
- Toxic Toys Christmas 2008
- Hillsong Kids: Follow You Reviewed.
- My Big Review.
- YouTube Friday: Juggling
- I'm back!
November 2008
- YouTube Friday: Metallica Monk
- Off to Paris.
- YouTube: Pipeline Collaboration.
- New Blog Launched for Parents and Volunteers.
- Thoughts from Pipeline: Why are Children's Pastors afraid to lead?
- Ask Aaron Reynolds a question.
- Pipeline wrap up.
- Communication 102
- Pipeline Conference this week.
- Communication 101
- YouTube Friday: Urban Ninja
- What if? - Excellent post
- Oh well.....
- Pray, Go, Vote
- YouTube Monday? Ed Young on Politics
October 2008
- YouTube Friday: Brett & Michelle Truett
- Collaboration
- Links I like
- YouTube Friday: Stash-Tober
- Bible Bucks 21st Century Style.
- I hate Fantasy Football
- True Beliver
- YouTube Friday: McCain Does Standup.
- Red Sox.
- Random Thought Thursday.
- Maintaining the Wow factor.
- Canadian Thanksgiving! What is it?
- YouTube Friday: Special Edition
- YouTube Friday: Mud
- What Choice do we have?
- Political Change?
- Politics and Religion?
- YouTube Friday: Pipeline Info Video
- The Great Debate: Biden Vs. Palin
- Random Thought Thursday
September 2008
- Great Quotes: Failure
- Pipeline Conference Update.
- YouTube Friday: French Jim Carey
- Outreach mistakes we make
- What creative outreach is to me.
- What does creative out reach looklike?
- New York! New York!
- Freakanomics and Final Thoughts.
- YouTube Friday: Vancouver Film School
- Other perspectives on rewards (part 2)
- Other perspectives on rewards.
- Why do people hate Bible bucks?
- Grand Opening by the numbers
- YouTube Friday: Uptown Grand Opening
- 911: Never forget.
- Great Quotes: Busyness
- YouTube Friday: Disney's Aladdin
- Sarah Palin, please be who you say you are.
- Should kids bring their Bible's to church.
- My favorite things about the 80's
August 2008
- I hate Bloggers (Part 2)
- Thank you Sarah Palin!
- I hate Bloggers!
- My Son's first Ballgame.
- Welcome!
- YouTube Friday: Hillsong Healer Correction
- YouTube Friday: Worst Preacher Ever
- Change something
- True Fasting
- My sons photographic debut
- Advance
- YouTube Friday: Hillsong Live - Healer
July 2008
- Heading up to Canada, Eh!
- Should little kids go to Big church?
- YouTube Friday:Treadmill Men
- More on Pipeline
- Phone Call with Tammy Melchien
- More Good news for iPhone owners
- Working Together 4 of 4 (Meet my Youth Pastor)
- Top 10 iPhone apps I use.
- Links I like: Stuff Christians like
- Back to the iPhone
- Working together 3 of 4 (Collusion is more than a good idea)
- New iPhone Ad.
- Working together 2 of 4 (Do you see what I see?)
- Feedback Wanted.
- Kids say the funniest stuff.
June 2008
- Working Together. (1 of 4)
- YouTube Friday: Hillsong is the collective man!
- Big News!
- Truth in advertizing
- Staff Retreat 2008
- Youtube Friday: Bethany and Jeremiah
- Children's Pastor: Help Wanted
- Why are Children's Pastors so lame?
- What does it take to be a children's pastor?
- The cool-aid tastes great!
- So you want to be a children's pastor?
- Youtube Friday: Apple Coldplay Ad
- Seth on Email
- The Holy Spirt and Recruitment
- What a win looks like.
- iTwitter
- Lighter Fare: Blogs I read.
May 2008
- Lighter Fare: Who am I.
- Lighter Fare: Top 5 TV.
- Be Attitudes: BE CONSISTENT
- Be Attitudes: BE ENGAGING
- Be Attitudes: BE COURTEOUS
- Be Attitudes: BE SAFE
- Youtube Friday: Why I Love Hillsong.
- Perspective.
- Before and After Jonathan Martin Creative.
- Jonathan Martin Creative Rocks!
April 2008
- Progress finally progress!
- Boy #2 turns #1.
- Jonathan Martin Creative arrives in full force!
- It's my first Birthday!
- Disney, Bible Man and Jonathan Martin Creative
March 2008
- Where am I?
- Easter Hangover.
- Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Free Live Scoring.
- YouTube Friday: Jim Carrey on Canada
- Why God is a Yankee Fan.
- Work Day 2.0
- YouTube Friday: SI Swimsuit Edition
- Caiaphas
- Under Construction!
- Things that effect our perspective.
- YouTube Friday: Jim Carrey "Impulses"
- There is no high like the most high
- Themed Environment continued: Jonathan Martin Creative
- Spring Training is in the air.
- Obama, Clinton, or McCain
February 2008
- Environment continued: Worlds of Wow
- Great Quotes: Barry Goldwater
- Go Sens Go
- YouTube Friday: Random Week
- Power of Environment. (2 of 4)
- Power of Environment. (1 of 4)
- YouTube Friday: Grammys
- Happy Valentines Day.
- How to Deal (How I deal with grief)
- How to Deal (Talking to kids about death)
- How to Deal (dealing with grief)
- YouTube Friday: Brother Barry
- Super thoughts on Regular Wednesday.
- Great Quotes: Change
- Be our Guest
- YouTube Friday: Lifechurch.tv
January 2008
- Craig Groeschel is coming to New York.
- Free Music! (Too Good to be True?)
- Then It Begins!
- YouTube Friday: Appearances (Things aren't always what they seem)
- Customer Service Chapter 5: Nordstrom's (Do you go the extra mile?)
- Customer Service Chapter 4: Starbucks (Are you creating an environment?)
- You Tube Friday: Customer Service Chapter 3: Neiman Marcus (Are you authentic?)
- Customer Service Chapter 2: Lowes' (Do you have a lot of stuff and no experts?)
- Customer Service Chapter 1: Tiffany's (Do your values translate to a personal level?)
- Customer Service: Forward
- Relationship
- Trust
- Prayer and Fasting.
- YouTube Friday: Baby Got Book
- The Last Few Delicious Bookmarks I have made.
- I love Hillsong!
December 2007
- Merry Christmas and a Blogging New Year.
- Youtube Friday: I love Christmas do U2?
- Christmas Gets crazier every year.
- Top Toys for Christmas 2007
- YouTube Friday: August Rush
- Reflections Of A Ragamuffin: The Practice of Faith
- Children's Ministry: Important Info
- Book: Going all the Way.
- Family Concluded: What makes you feel better?
- Thoughts and Prayers for New Life Church
- Praying for New Life Church
- Family (5 of 5)
- Family (4 of 5)
- Family (3 of 5)
- Family (2 of 5)
- Family (1 of 5)
November 2007
- YouTube Friday: Happy
- Importance of Family, samluce.com, reflection, and amazing grace.
- Great Quotes: Family
- Lifechurch.tv gets it.
- One Last Thought On Serventeerism (Volunteers).
- Youtube Friday: Externalize internal Order
- ServanTeerism (part 4)
- ServanTeerism (part 3)
- ServanTeerism (part 2)
- ServanTeerism (part 1)
- YouTube Friday: Pluggety, plug, plug.
- The Transformation
- Bus Driver Move That Bus!
- Tradition vs. Compassion.
- Book: Wisdom of Tenderness
October 2007
- And the winner is...........
- To Trick or to Treat?
- Temporary Depression.
- Youtube Friday: The difference between Men and Women.
- Enjoy the strawberries!
- Free Book!
- Happy Birthday Gianni!
- YouTube Friday: More Cowbell and spirtual gifts.
- More On Robin Hood Marketing.
- Books I Read On Vacation: Robin Hood Marketing.
- Making Moments Last.
- YouTube Friday: Inspiration
- Parents don't understand.
- Reinventing the wheel of PreSchool Ministry. (4 of 4)
- Reinventing the wheel of PreSchool Ministry. (3 of 4)
- Reinventing the wheel of PreSchool Ministry. (2 of 4)
- Reinventing the wheel of PreSchool Ministry. (1 of 4)
- Pharaoh Let My Yankees Go!
- YouTube Friday: Tribute to Apple Inc.
- Is that community? (part 3 of 3)
- Is that community? (Part 2 of 3)
- Is that community? (Part 1 of 3)
- Children of the Corn Eh!
September 2007
- YouTube Friday: Chris Farley on First Time Guests
- Great Quotes - Mother Teresa
- Books I Read On Vacation: The Assult On Reason
- 30 Beautiful Years!
- YouTube Friday: Juice Man in Context
- What is community?
- Books I read on vacation.
- Starting off right.
- YouTube Friday.
- Give it up. For Christ's Sake.
- Order Of Service
- Check-In Procedure Updates.
- 9 Years and counting.
- I'll never forget.
- I'm Back!
- 10 Misconceptions about Canada
- Top 10 Misconceptions About America.
August 2007
- Can-Am Relations.
- Off to vacation.....
- Back from camp.......
- Off to Camp.....
- How to do something, From a show about nothing. [update]
- Doh!
- A few light topics on the blog this week.
- Shameless Plug
- Seven people in the front seat of a pickup truck doesn't work.
- You should never order seafood at a hamburger joint in Nebraska.
- You'll always get a zit on important days.
- No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats!
- Wisdom of Kids
- Yada, Yada, Yada
- How to do something, From a show about nothing.
July 2007
- Leave the 99 and go for the 1
- What I learned from Ed Young
- Generation Confernce Wrap Up.
- Live updates from the Generation Conference
- Sporadic Posts
- 32, 4, and 6
- What the church can learn from Ratatouille. Part 2 (Duex)
- What the church can learn from Ratatouille.
- Does Jesus Like Vegetables?
- Worlds of Wow closer by the day.
- Keeping Kids In Church? Part 3
- Keeping kids in church? Part 2
- Keeping kids in church?
- Second Guessing God.
- Evangelism Old School Vs. New School Part 2
- Evangelism old school vs. new school.
- Why I love America!
- Only In America!
June 2007
- National iPhone Day
- Great Quotes: Marketing
- I Hate Church Signs!
- 21st Centry Allowance
- Things to NEVER say in front of your childrens pastor
- IM Safely?
- The 10 Commandments of online safety
- The CP 411 on TXT
- Children and Technology
- If Children Really Mattered Part 2
- albany New York New York
- New York, New York!
- Great Quotes: Kids
- If Children Really Mattered.
- Actual Values vs. Stated Values
- How I am Like Al Gore
- Hit me with your best shot.
- Why I respect Bill Hybels. Part 2
May 2007
- Why I respect Bill Hybels. Part 1
- John Piper: Educating for Hope
- Great Quotes
- The Importance of Environment!
- Chuck E. CHURCH, Should Church be Fun?
- Who Is Joyce Meyer?
- Things you will NEVER hear a children's pastor say.
- Wet Cement?
- Man to Man Defense
- How Super Are You?
- 24, LOST me
- Software Every Children's Pastor Needs
- Who is Ed Young?
- Great Quote: Marketing
- Who is Stephen Baldwin?
- R.E.A.D. T.H.I.S. P.O.S.T. Part 2
- R.E.A.D. T.H.I.S. P.O.S.T. P.A.R.T. 1
- Spider-Man 3
- How Much Is Your Mother Worth?
- Is Time Money? Part 2
- Is Time Money? Part 1
- Great Quotes
- mascots
April 2007
- The Newest Luce
- Shameless Plug
- Extreme Makeover Links
- Moving....
- Extreme Makeover?
- Creative Evangelism
- 1 vs. 100
- Why Church?
- "Jesus Junk"
- Sanjaya the next American Idol
- Ministry ADHD
- The importance of call.
- In the beginning.....
March 2007
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