Serving @ New Life

Thank you for pouring drinks, plating food, serving food, sweeping floors, mopping floors, washing dishes, stacking chairs, wiping down tables and taking out the trash in order to help feed our fellow brothers and sisters. They appreciated your work and so did I.

Fill in the Blank

If you don’t fill your ___________, the enemy will. Fill in the blank with anything important: time, thoughts, heart, mind, eyes, ears, life, soul. The Bible teaches that we need to be intentional with our lives. We should make daily decisions to fill our lives with things of God. If we don’t – the world […]

Why I’m Excited

Our mission trip this year is to Birmingham, AL on June 12-17. Each of you going have already paid 1/2 the trip’s expense, then we fundraise the remaining amount together. We need to raise $3,250 together. Each Sunday in March we’ll be asking our church and others to contribute toward the trip. I asked each […]

(Un)belief

“I believe, help my unbelief.” These words were said to Jesus by a father whose son was demon possessed. It was right after Jesus seemed to scold him for his unbelief. Here’s a summary of the story from Mark 9: 14-29. Jesus, Peter, James and John are on a mountain where God reveals Jesus’ deity […]

Eight Prayers

This morning, before you were up (and before the sun was up) eight people got up earlier than they usually do, and drove from all around the County on ice-covered roads to the church. Then they sat and prayed for you. The pastors, the elders, and three other church members were there. For an hour, […]

Suicide

We often tackle deep, difficult, and weighty subjects at Youth. Last night we discussed suicide. We discussed Biblical views on suicide, contributing factors and warning signs of suicide, how to discuss suicide with someone contemplating it, how to refer them for care, care for those after a suicide attempt, care for family and friends after […]

Your Ministry

You have a ministry – we all do, in fact we often have multiple ministries. Its why we were born. How effective our ministries are varies. The more intentional we are about our ministry the more effective it will be. Here’s a simplified list of things I feel are needed for effective ministry. Passion Ability […]

Left Behind

Last night a dozen of us talked about things we didn’t want to carry into 2022 – things we need to let go of and leave behind. An attitude, a grudge, a habit, a relationship, anything that isn’t helpful to us. Each of us wrote down one thing. When preparing for this week’s lesson, I […]

Happy New Year!

We acknowledged the first day of Advent last night at Youth, which is also the first day of the traditional church calendar – so Happy New Year! We’ll talk more about the church calendar throughout the coming year, but the image below provides a great overview – the first half of the year has a […]

God’s Voice

The new Youth t-shirts were passed out last night. The design below is featured on the back. I created this image to portray the three ways God speaks, or reveals Himself, to us – through nature, the Bible, and personally. We’ll start with Nature. For the majority of human existence, the Bible was not available […]

Cello – 1 Month

You requested videos of my progress playing the cello – here you go, the world premier music video of me playing cello! Please remember I’ve only been playing a month – about half the notes are flat or sharp, or I didn’t bow them correctly. But that’s the point, this is documentation of where I […]