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Another of Our Brand New FREE Training Videos
About 10 days ago I tested one of our brand new short training videos on a group of several hundred youth workers in my training workshop at a conference on the East Coast. The video lays out little...
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Wow... just $7
Okay... and I thought I had a good price. Youth Specialties just pumped one of my books this week, DO THEY RUN WHEN THEY SEE YOU COMING?, on sale for just $7 bucks! That's an awesome deal. (I love it...
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What Teens Need
A persistent gap exists between what teens need and what adults in this nation actually offer them. Best Buy has put up the money to fund the Search Institute's study on that gap. The main finding? The...
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Just 1 Thing
A little over a month ago a youth ministry blogger by the name of Jeremy Zach asked me, Tim Schmoyer, Mike King, Dan Haugh, and a bunch of other youth ministry folks to answer a single question: What...
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Burning My Book
I never thought I'd live to see one of my books burned, but on a recent trip... I saw about 30 of them burned! It's not what you think. They weren't protesting (I swear, I didn't say the word "Jackass"...
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Which Cover Do You Like?
I mentioned in an earlier blog that October was a month where we were going to give away some serious prizes. Here's a chance for you to qualify. We want your two cents on my new book cover. It's...
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Parenting Book Cover
At the beginning of the month, a few hundred of you helped me (and my publisher) choose a cover for my upcoming parenting book. It's time to show you those results, as well as the final cover! We...
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Ministry BY Teenagers
Have you ever considered what a youth ministry would look like if it eased back on it's ministry TO teenagers, and focused more on ministry BY teenagers? I just received the final proof of my brand new...
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It's Finally Here!
Many of you have been asking when my new book, MINISTRY BY STUDENTS will be available-- the book about developing spiritual growth in teenagers, and building into student leaders... it's been a long...
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Developing Spiritual Growth in Teenagers
Last week my friend Tim Schmoyer (Most of you know him from his web site StudentMinistry.org) was visiting Sacramento and we connected for breakfast, chatting about discipleship, student leadership and...
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A Quick Little Give-away
I know you all love free stuff... so I'm going to go ahead and give you a chance to quickly win some free books and DVDs... in the next 24 hours! (How's that for "quickly"?) WINNERS ARE NOW POSTED AT...
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The First Ten of You...
A lot of buzz about my 10-Minute Talks book lately, so I thought I'd give you all an insane deal... including a freebie. More on that in a minute. I actually heard a youth pastor give one of the talks...
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An Insane Sale and a Freebie...
For some reason my blog never was sent out via FEEDBURNER to all my email subscribers this morning. Weird! It only went out via RSS feed. I'm plugging it again below so that my email readers don't miss...
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Get a Signed Copy of My Parent Book
Okay everyone, I just heard that I'm going to receive my shipment of my new parenting book, Candid Confessions of an Imperfect Parent, in just a couple weeks- the last week of March, a little earlier...
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Parenting Book and Training Workshop
You've been seeing a lot of great resources for parents coming from us lately... and here's a couple more you will definitely want to know about. 1. My new book, Candid Confessions of an Imperfect...
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Candid Confessions is in...
Wow... cool surprise today. A huge shipment of my brand new parenting books (due on the shelves April 1) just arrived here today. I tore open a few of the boxes like a kid on Christmas... of course......
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Lame Tweet Guy
I think I'm going to reward some of you for Tweeting. (Wow, that sounds really weird without context) Yes, let's have another little contest where I'll give away a choice of any of my books in print....
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Giving Away "Life in Student Ministry"
My buddy Tim Schmoyer over at StudentMinistry.org wrote a cool little book titled, Life In Student Ministry. I really enjoyed it, so I'm going to give away 5 of these books. Let's have us a simple...
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Tomorrow My Son Turns 18... Have I Raised Him Right?
Tuesday, my son Alec turns 18. In just a few months I’ll be dropping him off at his college dorm, over 300 miles from home, where he will start the next stage of his life… finally out on his own. For...
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Massive DVD Give-away
Earlier this week we were going through our office and I found some of our FINAL COUNTDOWN DVD's from a few years back. This DVD has three really cool countdown videos on it that I use before...
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