Challenge Students Early And Often
Our modern day culture has done everything it can to remove challenges for young people. It’s nearly impossible to fail a grade in school, everyone gets a blue ribbon when it comes time to hand out awards, and we do our best to make everyone feel good about themselves. In some ways your ministry has […]
Learn From Steve
Let me start off by saying, I know you’ve probably got a lot on your plate right now so this post is going to be short and sweet. In fact, it’s going to address that very problem. Steve Jobs once said, “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. That’s […]
How To Make Your Table Stand Out At Group Fair
I remember one of my first experiences on campus as a freshman. I walked through the middle of campus and tables were lined up everywhere. Everyone was promoting their club, frat/sorority, or humanitarian organization. There was free stuff everywhere and lots of poster board displays. Everyone was trying to recruit me and it was a […]
Everyone Needs To Rest
Everyone needs to rest. And that even includes our blog team. Due to gearing up for our two conferences this fall – BASICcon and BASICcon Jersey – and the upcoming fall semester, we’re going to take a break from writing this week. Here’s an opportunity for you to get some rest too. We’ll be back […]
How to Inspire Creativity
“Let’s get two pastors to do an epic rap battle.” Our team has been planning for our two BASICcon events this fall for the last couple weeks and this is just one of the crazy suggestions that has come forth. It’s been fun, creative, and a little wacky at times. It truly is a privilege […]
Enemies of Ministry: Offenses
I’m really excited to kick off a new series on the blog for the month of June! You probably know at least one person who was active in ministry, had a heart that really wanted to serve the Lord and then very quickly (or so it seemed) had an issue come up that completely derailed […]
Renew Your Perspective
Congratulations, you’ve made it! Another school year in the books and hopefully you feel you’ve had another successful year of ministry. Usually when I get to this point of the year I’m able to take a step back and rest. I can get a much needed break and get a renewed perspective, but this year […]
Free Online Ministry Training
This Saturday at 1 PM (eastern time) is an event you won’t want to miss. Last year hundreds of ministry leaders from 18 different states tuned in for the first ever college ministry training that was streamed online. It went so well that we decided to do it again and the best part is, we’re […]
Why You Should Go See The Movie Noah
Last week my wife and I got the chance to go see the movie Noah in the theater. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding this movie and it didn’t take long for us to see why. I’m not going to give you a movie review here (there’s plenty of other people who could […]
An Experiment In Fun
I’m sure at one time or another you have sat in a meeting or an event and thought to yourself, “Man, this is really boring. I wish that I could be doing something more fun right now.” Studies have shown that when people get the opportunity to do something fun, they are WAY more likely […]