I’ve been video taping my teaching so I can evaluate how I’m doing as objectively as possible. It’s been quite an enlightening experience. Here are some things I noticed from last week’s teaching: – I tend to limp around (I have no reason to limp) – I move around WAY too much – A couple [...]

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We just finished our 4th week of The Landing (Celebrate Recovery’s 12-step program for students). I have 21 volunteers helping me out. They’ve been FANTASTIC!!! What’s been amazingly helpful is some of them have stepped up in their area of expertise and created niches for themselves within the ministry. Here are some examples: Rick G [...]

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Each week we’ll be writing about different ways that we, as leaders, can effectively be examples to our students, and we’ll discuss different topics to talk over with our students. These topics range from relationships to being active in a small group. All of these topics are nuggets every leader can apply to his or [...]

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For the past two weeks, I’ve been teaching my guys on 1 John. Tonight we stumbled across an interesting concept through our discussion. It was about character traits and the triggers that set them off. The character traits are like switches, the triggers are outside stimuli. For instance, we all have inner character switches; greed, [...]

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Each week we’ll be writing about different ways that we, as leaders, can effectively be examples to our students, and we’ll discuss different topics to talk over with our students. These topics range from relationships to being active in a small group. All of these topics are nuggets every leader can apply to his or [...]

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I have catch phrases I always use with my students. One of them is “I love that guy!” I think students will get tired of it and it will lose its effectiveness… until I get messages like the one above. It’s hard to over encourage students! His reaction to this post is below. This further [...]

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I don’t think it would be a good idea to teach this to your students or encourage it. When I saw their hands getting red & pride getting stronger instead of weaker, I stopped the game. They both thanked me a few minutes later as their hands throbbed.

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Each week we’ll be writing about different ways that we, as leaders, can effectively be examples to our students, and we’ll discuss different topics to talk over with our students. These topics range from relationships to being active in a small group. All of these topics are nuggets every leader can apply to his or [...]

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When I walked into the room where we have small groups, this is what my boys were doing. This is great proof that we don’t have to over-think how to have fun with them. They usually can find a way to have a fun, memorable experience without our help

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