by Mike Kupferer In part 1, I shared six tips to help you through the beginning of your job search. As your search progresses, there will be a new set of scenarios to consider. In this article, I want to share some tips to help you during this next phase of your job search.…
Youth Ministry Job Search: Part 1by Mike Kupferer Almost two years into my second youth ministry position, I found myself without a job. For the third time since college I was looking for a congregation where I could minister to youth.…
When Starbucks executives overextended their brand, planting what seems like a store on every block, it quickly became okay to start savaging Seattle’s caffeine gods. Likewise, after centuries of “extending our brand” into a “Christian nation,” it’s now totally acceptable to proclaim yourself a “hater of religion” in the U.S.…
Porn is a struggle for every guy. I don’t care who you are-if you’re a walking, breathing male, you’ve dealt with it sometime in your life, probably recently. If it’s so common, why are so many Christians afraid to talk about it, especially in ministry?…
I’m a youth pastor at a local church. I’m favored and blessed to the degree that I’m able to increase my staff. As a result, I have the privilege of hunting for someone to hire, rather than looking for a job myself.…
One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies involves two cars. One, shiny and red, says to the other, “ka-chow,” or something flashy. While the other, more subdued yet just as sharp shows him the breathtaking (and “ka-chow” inducing) view sitting below the well traversed highway.…
For a while, my sister-in-law believed that I was cursed. And I began to fear that she was right. Not once. Not twice. But six times, I went home from the barbershop with a complete hack job for a haircut. It got so bad that my family would try and talk me out of getting a haircut before any major youth event, for fear I’d have to wear a hat while preaching in the sanctuary.…
“You sinned again. You call yourself a Christian?” “You think God loves you? Give up.” “You’re totally guilty. You know what you did.” “Why bother reading the Bible? You never get anything out of it.” In Ephesians 6:16, Paul warns us about the “the flaming arrows of the evil one.”…
Lesson Learned “Do you trust me?” By: Brent Carl Man it seems like lately God is just nailing me with thoughts, and concepts through the tunes in my mp3 player. He does that some times, I think it’s a cool variation that He uses to get my attention with something He has for me to ponder and pray about.…
We just finished a 3 week series in our youth ministry called “Real Christmas” and I received a lot of feedback from our adult volunteers that it helped them regain focus on what truly mattered about the holiday. When we serve in ministry we can get so caught up in the busyness of the church calendar that we forget to take time to remember what is real about Christmas.…
