Category Archives: leadership

Preaching on Sunday 12-28-08

Lately I have been privileged to speak on the last Sunday of the year.  I like to take this particular Sunday and try to talk about the mission of God, the church.  This year the title is The Year Of Living Missionally, not a great title but it works. I want to help Creekside becomeContinue reading “Preaching on Sunday 12-28-08”

Success?

I know senior pastors can go through some pretty depressing thoughts on Sunday afternoon, and monday.  Re-hashing what they said, what they could have said, what the church needs to do better or differently, feeling like a failure. Well youth pastors can go through that too.  I’ve been feeling it lately.  I know that theContinue reading “Success?”

Good Words Mark

In God We Do Not Trust – This was a thought provoking article from Mark Driscoll “The bottom line is obvious to those with gospel eyes. People are longing for Jesus, and tragically left voting for mere presidential candidates. For those whose candidate wins today there will be some months of groundless euphoric faith inContinue reading “Good Words Mark”

Youth Leaders Meeting = Awesomeness

I know what you are thinking, how could any meeting = awesomeness.  Well I will tell you.  First of all the acutal meeting was brief.  Which is key to awesome meetings.  Second, we allowed for people to hangout and have fun together. I’m going to be really honest right now, I have not felt thatContinue reading “Youth Leaders Meeting = Awesomeness”

Monday Morning Memo-Random

Well it’s Monday, my weekend was very busy, and today so far has been nice and not stressful. Let’s re-cap, our beyond::afterhours event went well. It was spring break for some of our students so they didn’t have the same level of contact with their friends, so we didn’t have as many students come out,Continue reading “Monday Morning Memo-Random”

Overly Serious Politics & People Make Me Sad

So I don’t like to take myself to seriously, sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who really gets the joke in my head, and so I like to laugh and I like being around people who like to laugh. I can’t stand people who take themselves too seriously. Life’s to short for that.Continue reading “Overly Serious Politics & People Make Me Sad”