I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to be part of steering The Rooted Conference which took place recently.  A friend from Rooted, Clark Fobes, who is the youth pastor at Sunset Church in San Francisco wrote the following on his way home from the conference. It really captures some of the beauty of the conference.…

I found a great article on “10 Things you Can’t Expect from Church Volunteers” here and really found it helpful.  I highly commend it for reading!

I recently found an extensive review of two books that are worth knowing about. They are “The Juvenilization of American Christianity” and “From Here to Maturity” both by Thomas Bergler.  Bergler teaches at a Christian college in Indiana and has done extensive study of the history of movements in youth ministry that have affected the…

My friend Dr Rob Rienow has posted a great question for college freshman on his blog. College freshmen are 8 weeks into their new adventure. Most are living away from home for the first time. You may be a college student reading this post, or perhaps you are a parent of one of those freshmen.…

I recently had the opportunity to contribute to The Rooted Blog.  Here is a snippet of the article.  It was also picked up by The Gospel Coalition over the weekend. “God has no grandkids,” my mentor used to say.  What he meant was simply that no one enters the kingdom merely because their parents were…

Recently a friend of mine shared his story of how his teenage son wanted an iPhone, so they came up with an agreement on the terms and conditions of having the phone.  It’s a beautiful contract through which parents have conveyed their love to their son. He shared the agreement with me and gave me…