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If there was a position in ministry called Director of Awkward Moments I would be promoted to it. Why? Because I have a tendency, in the words of my old pastor, to keep talking until I start making sense and to make appropriately funny jokes at flat-out inappropriate times. Sometimes my attempts at humor are [...]

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Okay, so Friday marked the end of my P90x meets G90x extreme physical/spiritual fitness experiment. The idea was to do the popular physical workout (P90x…you’ve seen the informercials) combined with my own extreme spiritual fitness routine that I developed just for this bicep meets Bible test. These dual workouts combine push ups, pull ups and [...]

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I have held you in my arms for ten million minutes.
You have held me in your heart for the same.
In spite of our fights and our struggles,
I would do it in a second again.
For the Lord has used you to change my soul
And teach me what it means to love.
Although we each are very different
So [...]

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As the former preaching pastor of a thriving church who has intentionally chosen the ministry pathway of working with the hormone/adrenalin saturated segment of the church-going population (aka “teenagers), I often get asked why in one way or another. Why would I resign from what many consider to be the most powerful position in a [...]

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It may come as a surprise to you that, the President of a ministry called Dare 2 Share, hates evangelism. But I do. Let me tell you why.
Evangelism forces me to decide whether or not I believe in Jesus enough to tell someone else that he is the only way into God’s favor. It [...]

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Here at Dare 2 Share, we’re working on a teen devotional book that has an evangelism emphasis and I need your help. I’m looking for stories from teens that talk about their own particular unique faith-sharing styles. So check out the following four styles of sharing your faith and tell me what you thinkn Talk [...]

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There is a quote that gets under my skin bouncing around religious circles today. Many attribute it to St. Francis of Assisi (even though he may have meant it in a different way than it is being used.) I’m sure you’ve heard it in church, a small group meeting or chatting it up with [...]

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Yesterday I took my family to Yellowstone National Park and, while we were waiting for Old Faithful to blow, my 9 year old son asked me about the famous Geyser.
Jeremy asked, “Daddy what time is Old Faithful supposed to go?”
I said, “I heard it was supposed to blow at 6:29 pm.”
He responded, [...]

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You probably know by now that I love to inspire and equip teenagers to share their faith. I could train them all day long for five days straight if I could and, even then, I’d just be getting started. There’s just something about training crowds of loud teenagers to share their faith that gets my [...]

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Thoreau once said, “For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil there is one striking at the root.”
It seems to me that more and more Christians are hacking at the leaves of evil and forgetting to strike at the root. We are getting entranced by good causes that oftentimes leave the root, the real [...]

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