Here are some sample messages that I have shared with groups of students at various youth groups.  Click on the title of the message to view a message outline.  If you are interested in having me come and share with your students, please check out my booking information page.

• Engaging in God’s Story- God is unfolding His plan of redemption throughout the earth.  Each one of us can play a part in bringing the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ to the people that we encounter everyday.  This message focuses on the mission of Moses (Exodus 3) and his responses to God calling him to stand up to Pharaoh.  This call and the excuses of Moses to why he would not do what God was calling him to do closely parallel the excuses that each one of us uses to why we will not tell others about the glorious freedom from the slavery of sin that is found in Jesus Christ.  This is a challenge to your students to be bold in sharing their faith with others. 
• God Encounters: The Impact of Personally Experiencing God- Have you ever had a personal encounter with God that impacted your life in an amazing way? This message looks at the stories of Jacob’s and Saul’s encounters with God.  For both of them, these were defining moments in their lives.  This message looks at the impact of these encounters on Jacob and Saul and how each one of us are to live lives marked by the encounter that we have had with Jesus Christ.  These encounters have altered our identities and should alter every aspect of our lives! 
• The Good Life- What makes life good?  What leads to fulfillment?  The culture gives us many answers to these questions, but once pursuing those things, we so often find out that they are not what we expected.  This message looks at what marks a truly good life by looking at the discoveries of Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes, but fortunately we will discover that our life can be so much more than the “vanity” that Solomon discovered through all of his experiences.  In Philippians 3, Paul calls each one of us to a higher calling that will truly satisfy the deep longings of our soul.  This message calls each one of us to truly live lives on mission for Jesus Christ and finding satisfaction in Him alone.
• Moving Back to a Christ-Centered Christianity- Are your students feeling like they are living defeated Christian lives?  Do they feel that they try and try to live lives that are glorifying to God but find themselves constantly failing?  It is so easy in the Christian life to make it all about each one of us and what we can accomplish for God.  This message brings each one of us back to a place of dependency on God as it takes a look at a life that is lived under the control of the Holy Spirit and the true purpose of being a Christian - to be a vessel that displays the glory of God to the world. 
• Radical Love: Getting to the Heart of the Gospel- Why do people look at Christians and the teachings of Jesus Christ and wonder why they do not line up?  How come Christians have bad reputations in the eyes of people who do not follow Christ?  This message goes to the heart of the gospel that we so often miss - the love of Jesus Christ.  We always think about Jesus’ love in relation to us, but we seem to miss that we are to show His love to others.  Jesus was focused on radically loving others around Him.  This is seen even from His first message, the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5),  to his interactions with individuals, such as the leper and the blind man, and to finally His death on the cross at Calvary.  This message looks at our call to be “salt” and “light” and how we are to be the hands and feet of Jesus to everyone that we meet. 
• Worship as a Lifestyle: Joining in the Song of Creation- What is the glory of God?  What does it have to do with worship?  This message explores the glory of God throughout scripture from Genesis to Revelation.  This will be seen through glimpsing the glory of God through scripture, grasping the glory through further understanding of what God’s glory truly means, and displaying the glory by seeking to live a lifestyle of worship in which each one of us joins with the heavens in “declaring the glory of God!”