The most effective tool that we have is how we react to life.

Take your foot off the gad. Slow down. Drink some coffee. Breathe.

A game with candy bars? You bet.

What's the best way to lead a short-term missions project with students?

I believe with all my heart that God is inviting us to Life with a capital L.

Need some Easter discussion starters? We've got 'em.

Got leftover peeps?

How do we reach hurting teens? These youthworkers have ideas...

It was an innocent enough question. A stranger on the airplane simply asked, "What do you do for a living?" For most of the past four decades, the answer was an easy, automatic, "I'm a youth pastor." This time, I was frozen. I just wasn't sure what to say.

I have something you probably don't—a picture of my own brain. My wife won't let me hang it in the living room (too creepy, she says); and while people ask to see pictures of my kids, they've yet to be impressed when I pull a picture of my brain from my wallet.