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Category Archives: Youth Ministry
Game Time! Good News in the Neighborhood Curriculum
I’m thrilled to introduce the Good News in the Neighborhood curriculum I have been working on alongside my good friend, Adam Mclane. Exploring the life of Jesus and Paul’s words to the Church of Corinth, this is a resource designed to ignite the hearts and imaginations of teenagers to take seriously they’re call to be …
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The Science of Storytelling and Listening
This article was originally posted on Fuller Youth Institute’s website. For full list of statistic sources, click here. Although I’ve spent one semester as a seventh and eighth grade science teacher, I don’t claim to be a scientist. In fact, in high school and college, it was the subject I avoided the most. Years later, …
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Book Giveaway: The One Sentence Story Showdown!
So here is the deal… I’m looking to give away some copies of my book, Teaching Through the Art of Storytelling and in order to pass around the love, we are going to write a shared story one sentence at a time. How it works: I will start by writing the first sentence of …
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Teenagers, Tragedy and a New Story
I spent this past week living on a small houseboat with bunch of freshman boys on Lake Shasta. While living in extremely intimate quarters with 70 teenagers (4 houseboats) can be quite intimidating (and odoriferous!), it was not what intimidated me most about this time. Having committed to speak for this annual “Houseboats” trip close …