Rantings of a Jesus-loving, raving lunatic
Thank you Lord for pain.
Through it you draw me closer to you. By it you drive me to my knees in prayer. From it you forge in me the image of Christ.
Pain is a friend that I welcome with outstretched hands and open arms. Although he kisses me on the cheek while stabbing me in […]
Yesterday Dare 2 Share held an exclusive pre-screening of Superman Returns with bunches of youth leaders across Colorado. We rented out a movie theatre for an afternoon, invited our youth leader friends out and enjoyed the movie together.
Why? First of all we love youth leaders. We figured that one of the best ways we could […]
Okay so I survived my wife’s twentieth high school reunion. It wasn’t nearly as painful as I had anticipated. As a matter of fact, it was kind of fun, except for the hour plus long video chocked full of long stretches of seemingly random video of their high school sporting events…I could hear the CSCS […]
Oh boy…I can’t wait! (insert sarcastic tone and groan here)
This weekend I "get" to go with my wife to her twentieth high school reunion. There’s nothing like shaking hands with people you’ve never met, trying to remember their names and awkwardly standing by as your spouse walks down memory lane with all her old friends. Old […]
For the last three summers I’ve had the privilege of speaking for Promise Keepers. It all started when I marched into their office and asked them if I could. Basically, I talked to them about letting me train all the guys at all their events that summer to share their faith. What shocked me is […]
I’ve been working from early morning to late at night for the last four days or so typing furiously on my laptop. To be honest I felt your prayers. God energized me through His Holy Spirit (and several Venti Coffees from Starbuck’s) and I was able to finish two thirds of my book!
As I reflect […]
I need your prayers this week as I have been on a writing retreat in Breckenridge, CO (an expensive resort mountain town where, with the help of my father-in-law, I found a condo that rents for $49/day…HA!).
My goal? To write the majority of my new book Call Me Crazy in four straight days of hardcore […]
What is it going to take to truly see a revolution in youth ministry?
How can we effectively train and unleash this generation of teenagers to impact this culture and reach this world for Jesus?
Why don’t more churches take the potential of the teenagers in their own student ministries more seriously?
These questions and more plague me […]
From a Teen’s Eyes
You tell me to get a job
So I can earn my keep.
And purchase all the little things
I like and want and need.
You tell me to go to church
So I can be religious.
And find some inner harmony
While looking quite prestigious.
But what you say so often
Makes no […]
Right now I’m sitting at John Wayne International Airport with my wife and son (Kailey’s back at home with grandma and grandpa) praising God for what he did this last weekend in Cali. I had the privilege of speaking to about 3,000 or so teenagers at Fresh and saw, I would say, somewhere around 150-200 […]
