A couple of years ago we were teaching the high school students how to engage in basic conversational skills. Then we had them practice on middle school students that same evening! The goal was to engage in relational conversation (asking questions in order to get to know the other person) that led to spiritual conversation […]
The Five Thresholds The Five Thresholds is training material on disciple-making from InterVarsity college ministries. This is what IV has to say about the Five Thresholds: “This is the journey of how people tend to explore faith. Once we understand the process, we can be more helpful to friends moving through each threshold. God is […]
Dale Carnegie offers a “graduate course” in human relations in his famous book: How to Win Friends and Influence People After one of our debriefs with our students at Youth Alpha, I shared a story from Carnegie’s book. I wanted to give them an example of what it looks like to be a good listener […]
I recently wrote an email to our High School Youth leaders who are currently “assisting” our students in running Youth Alpha. I sensed that because the adults don’t have a “defined” role that we might struggle with our function. And function is how we often try to define ourselves. Here is what I wrote: Adult […]
When I left college as a 25-year old, one of my life goals was to tackle our culture’s Bible illiteracy problem. It’s not my job to help the whole world be biblically literate, but wherever God was going to send me, I was surely going to make that a center-piece of what I did week-in and […]
Right before this new year started, I did it. I had been looking at a daily devotional resource from a Christian leader who I respected and appreciated the fruit of the Gospel in my life. The reason I was agonizing over the decision was because the devotional cost $1.99 per month. I thought, “Surely there are […]
I had fun this past Sunday working through the story-line of the Bible in light of the themes and trajectory of the Gospel according to John. If you missed it, you can watch or listen here. When I was at WWC, I learned so much about the story-line of the Old Testament from Mark Jalovick. […]