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Five Minutes with Marko — 149 episodes
Youth Worker Identity
Youth Pastors Need a Title Change
The Downside of Being Well-Resourced
Young Teens and Exploration
What’s the Purpose of Your Small Groups?
Do You Have a Zombie Soul?
Young Teens and Bible Reading
The Four Contexts for Change
Youth Ministry is Like Golf
Why Are Youth Workers So Often Mistreated?
The 12-Year-Old Loser
Why You Need a Team
When to Leave
An Open Letter to a 14-Year-Old Girl
Is Youth Ministry Biblical?
When to Separate MS and HS
Young Adult Youth Ministry Volunteers
When God Seems Distant
What Volunteers Need from Youth Pastors, part 2
What Volunteers Need from Youth Pastors, part 1
The Middle Schooler Who Called My Bluff
The Parenting Pendulum
The Primary Objective of Youth Ministry
The Waning of Professional Youth Ministry
Stop Making Assumptions about Teenage Brains (Brains, part 3)
Teenage Brains and Identity Formation (Brains, part 2)
Stewarding the Identity Formation of Young Teens (Brains, part 1)
A Few Requests from a Dad
Why We Need Patience
Plotting Will and Skill
The Role of the Holy Spirit in Youth Ministry
The Featherweightiness of Belonging
Risk in Youth Ministry
Junior High or Middle School?
How to Become a Long-Haul Youth Worker
Loyal Radicals
Teenagers and Materialism, part 2
Teenagers and Materialism, part 1
Presence in Youth Ministry, part 2
Presence in Youth Ministry, part 1
Innovation without Disconnection
The Role of Trust
Learning to Listen
Frogger, a MSM metaphor
Stewarding Identity Formation with Middle Schoolers
Nuggets, part 12
Nuggets Part 11
Nuggets, Part 10
Nuggets, part 9
4 Teenage Moments that Resulted in a Lifetime of Youth Ministry, part 2
4 Teenage Moments that Resulted in a Lifetime of Youth Ministry, part 1
Prepared but Flexible
Finding Real Hope, Part 3
Finding Real Hope, part 2
Finding Real Hope, part 1
Measuring Success in Middle School Ministry
Disengaging Spiritual Auto-Pilot
Conviction, Collaboration and Calling
Asking for Help
10 Commandments of Discipling Others
Four Mindsets for Staying Put
Nuggets, part 8
Nuggets, part 7
Nuggets, part 6
Nuggets, Part 5
Parenting Pendulum Preventer
Pastoral Identity
Killer Expectations
Inviting Decisions without Manipulation
How Do You Want to Receive Feedback?
Teenagers and Anxiety
What’s Your Ministry’s Achilles Heel?
Young People Need Hope
An Attitude of Curiosity Toward Parents
Acknowledging and Addressing Our Weaknesses
Happy Police (Happiness, week 2)
Happy Teenagers in a Lousy Parenting Goal (Happiness, week 1)
Two Fancy Words I Made Up
Criticism and Thin Skin
Three Components of Great Youth Ministry
The Ministry of Fun
The Long View
6 Ideas for Fueling Your Creativity
The Importance of Storytelling
Spiritual Formation Boarding Schools
Teenagers and Bible Reading
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby
Rethinking Belonging
The Ministry of Remembering
Baby Sea Turtles (and me)
Podcasts I Listen To
Nuggets | Week 4
Nuggets | Week 3
Nuggets | Week 2
Nuggets | Week 1
Regret
Post Youth Ministry
Paradoxes of Middle Schoolers
Asking Great Questions
Lonely Boys
Fueling Your Creativity
Jesus Sauce
New Realities for Teenagers
Honesty About Innovation
Four Practices of Great Parent Ministry
Four Types of Curriculum
Emmanuel Year ’Round
Curiosity is the Serum for Judgmentalism
Control or Open Hands
The Myth of Control
Tortilla Chips and Salsa
Responding to Brain Discoveries, Part 2
Responding to Brain Discoveries, part 1
A “Nothing Prevents You” Ministry
Aligned With Your Calling
A Reminder of Why We Do What We Do
1 Kings 19 Rewritten for Youth Workers
Psalm 23 & Luke 5 Rewritten for Youth Workers
2 Corinthians 11 & 12 Rewritten for Youth Workers
Daniel 3 Rewritten for Youth Workers
2 Timothy 1 & 2 Rewritten for Youth Workers
Exodus 3 & 4 Rewritten for Youth Workers
Be Courageous
The Myth of Balance
Traditions and Sacred Cows
The Intersection of Intentionality and Faith
The Glass is (at Least) Half Full
The Extension of Adolescence
The Seduction of Ease
The Patience of Plodding
10 Percent Wrong
What Would I Do Differently?
Helping Teens Meet the Real Jesus
Stretching Toward Faith in Ministry
The Power of Small
Teenagers and Risk
What Redwood Trees Teach Us About Youth Ministry
12 Awesome Things About Middle Schoolers
Improving Your Relationship With Parents
Being Open to Changing Your Mind
LGBTQ Teens Need a Pastoral Response Over a Theological Response
My Resistance to Excellence as a Value
Invitation to Partnership with God
Growth Practices of Leaders
Fear
Decisions as Ebeneezers
Divergent Thinkers
Competency Facilitator
Seven Sins of Reinvention