Relentlessly pursuing Christ and His Cause
Last night was awesome. Tons of teens trusted in Christ as their Savior and tons more made decisions to share Christ with their friends (aka “shred the gnar”). St. Louis is going great! Did you make a commitment to shred the gnar? Did you talk to your friend on the cell phone? Whether you led [...]
I am within rock throwing distance to the St. Louis Arch (no I didn’t, but I thought about it) and our Dare 2 Share team is doing final preparations for the training conference tonight and tomorrow. I can’t wait. It is going to be, God willing, a catalytic and transformational weekend for thousands of teenagers [...]
I got the call yesterday at 4pm. A monster storm was heading to Denver and would hit within the next 12-14 hours. Our 10:40am United Flight from Denver to St. Louis had already been cancelled in anticipation of the snow “event”. Two options at this point: try to catch another flight (an unlikely option since [...]
The Seattle Conference was powerful. The Key West Arena was rocking and rolling with teenagers from Seattle, Oregon, California, Canada and even Hawaii and Montana who committed to Shred the Gnar with five of their friends right away. I’d say about 90% committed to dive into deep spiritual confersations with their friends. Pray for them [...]
I’m tired. As I type this blog from Hampden Inn I’m unusually drowsy. Fell asleep after 11 last night and got up well before 5 this morn.But in a few short hours I’ll be wide awake as thousands of teenagers from Washington, Oregon, California and Canada gather at the Key Arena to get equipped to [...]
This video from my friends at liveabove.com does a great job at explaining the need for graduating high school seniors to be financially, socially, spiritiually and emotionally prepared for college life. You’ve heard the “great graduation statistics” of how many teenagers abandon their faith after high school right? Well we need to do what it [...]
My Mobilization Action Plan for this month is to unleash Josh and siblings with the D2S “Shreddin the Gnar” video and get them the PDF download that shows them how to use it. I still have to get them all the “Shreddin’ the Gnar” books (have been on the road) and will do it all [...]
Tim Schmoyer, myself and a bunch of our youth ministry friends did a live talk on timschmoyer.com about how to answer teen’s tough questions. If you are a teen or work with teens you should listen to it. I think that the conclusions that we landed on are pretty important for youth leaders as they [...]
Twenty years ago today my lifelong friend, Rick Long, and myself started Grace Church. We were two little twirps in their early twenties who couldn’t find their theological rears with both of their theoretical hands if they tried. But God used us anyway. Neither of us were seminary trained. Rick was a manager at a [...]
I have been speaking to teenagers since I was a teenager. In all that time (25+ years) I have NEVER seen teenagers respond to anybody like they have to my buddy and fellow preacher, Zane Black. What’s funny is that he started stuffing outreach bags as a volunteer at the Denver Dare 2 Share conference [...]
