Matthew 28:16-20 Click here to listen to the entire message in an audio file, shared on Sunday, October 12, 2014 I’m going to throw a lot at you today. I want to say I’m sorry, but I’m actually not. Because this is so foundational to the Christian life I can’t apologize for it. There’s going to […]
In the second half of Followers at Hayward Wesleyan Church in 2019, I had decided to interact with stories of Jesus found in the Gospels in order to teach and demonstrate how Jesus showed people what God, his Father, was like. I called the series: According to Jesus, What is God Like? For the first story, I picked the […]
In my last year at HWC (2019) our after-school program Followers was interacting with stories that Jesus told people in order to learn what God is like. During the Junior Followers (grades K-2) teaching time we had one of those amazing moments where students say something profound. We were engaging with the story Jesus told about […]
From a Journal Entry Dated: June 24, 2012 I have no problem disciplining. I understand both the power and the difficulty inherent in correcting behavior and patterns—ultimately the heart. I’ve been doing this for a while, so I have a lot of experience with it. I learned something new the other day, however, that I […]
This experience happened in the spring of 2014 during a Wednesday night Youth Group at Hayward Wesleyan Church. One night at Youth group there was a 6th grade guy that got in trouble during a small group. Now small group leaders can take care of most discipline issues themselves, but when they come to the […]
The Story of Lazarus – John 11 Click here to listen to the entire message in an audio file, shared on Sunday, March 1, 2009. John chapter 11: Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sisterMartha. This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was […]
February 25, 2024 To whom it may concern, Five years ago I had the privilege and honor of joining the HACIL staff as the certified teacher for high school, and eventually middle school, social studies. It has truly been a pleasure and a joy to work alongside families and their students in their individualized education […]
In the fall of 2007, I started a graduate program at Bethel Seminary. While I eventually finished my master’s degree at another seminary, I am so thankful for my year and a half with the faculty at Bethel and my fellow students of Cohort K! I came across this document back when I was cleaning […]
This was a message I preached on Sunday, September 16, 2007 at Hayward Wesleyan Church titled: Worship with the Mind. Parts of this message were inspired and quoted by a teacher I listened to quite frequently in the early days of ministry at HWC. His name is Peter Hiett. “‘Hear, O Israel [hear, O church… […]
“Your teeth look good.” Whew… I mentally relaxed. I hadn’t been to the dentist in about 4 years. I was afraid of what the dental hygienist would say about my teeth. The fact that she commented pretty quickly that my teeth initially looked good was a comforting feeling. Maybe that tooth that hurt was just […]
I was asked to contribute a chapter to this book project back in 2014. It’s chapter 21 in Pulse: Pumping Life into Your Kids Ministry. I chose to write on something that I am pretty passionate about: Engaging children in the chronological, linear, and unfolding biblical narrative rather than using Scripture to instruct mere principles […]
Anyone that knows me well can say that I don’t score very high on the empathy scale. It’s not that I don’t care… I really do. It’s just not natural for me to externally exude caring and empathy. When a student had a tummy ache or wasn’t feeling well, my typical answer was: “Ah, why […]
How God Changed My Heart and Transformed Our Youth Group It was just a simple eBook. I had downloaded hundreds of articles and eBooks over the years as a pastor. I loved finding simple, yet profound articles that helped me learn and grow. This eBook was just one among many. Why would this little eBook […]
I haven’t written in a while. I stepped away from full-time, vocational, pastoral ministry back in June 2019. For 16 years I led, taught, wrote, strategized, researched, thought, and curated ministry related things. While life has changed for me related to my job, I still have many unpublished thoughts and stories related to my time […]
A couple of years ago I spent a season visiting with a counselor in the Twin Cities. I think it was in the third session where my counselor told me that he was going to Florida for a few weeks and would be unavailable to meet during that time. He gave me his cell phone […]
A few things have happened since I stepped away from full-time ministry at Hayward Wesleyan Church: HACIL On July 1, I started working for HACIL, a virtual charter school in the Hayward Community School District. I was hired to work with high school students and their families in the area of social studies as well […]
Yesterday, Pastor Chad shared some more details about my impending departure at all three services at Hayward Wesleyan Church as well as how things are looking for the new positions. Sunday, June 9 will be my last day on staff, and I get the honor of preaching that morning. This definitely hasn’t been a secret. […]
Yesterday was the last Followers at Hayward Wesleyan Church of the school year and my last Followers. What a fun afternoon! We put our hand-prints on the wall, ate amazing food, played games, laughed, celebrated, and just had a good time. It was bittersweet. Sweet because I’m happy at what Followers has done in the […]
For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 11) Story: Passover This is the eleventh story in the curriculum found in Exodus 5-15. Watch the teaching video below: source YouTube Review Slides: Review […]
For 21 weeks in 2019, the students and teachers in Main Street at Hayward Wesleyan Church are interacting with the curriculum from Saturate the World called The Story of God for Kids. 10) Story: Moses This is the tenth story in the curriculum found in Exodus 1-4. Watch the teaching video below: source YouTube Listen to the […]