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• 10 Commitments of a Kidmin That’s More Than Babysitting, Pt 2
• 10 Commitments of a Kidmin That’s More Than Babysitting, Pt 1
• The Thing You Need To Know About Complete Strangers
• 2 Things That Everything In Your Life Needs
• My Top 10 Posts of 2011
• Things I Learned and Loved in 2011
• 10 Things to Do Before Christmas
• How I Lost 60 lbs, Pt 2
• How I Lost 60 lbs, Pt 1
• The Biggest Mistake Parents Make
• Parenting Thoughts From a Two-Week Old Dad
• Solving a Rubik’s Cube While Juggling
• I Won’t Be Blogging This Week Because…
• What Happens When You’re Bad at Dueling
• 3 Free Tools to Transform You Into an Organizational Ninja
• Why Your Words Matter
• This Sentence Will Help You Refocus When Your Priorities Are Out of Whack
• Start Doing This and People Will Stop Following You
• When Teaching Your Kid How to Ride a Bike Goes Wrong
• Why Spiritual Disciplines Aren’t Enough
• How to Discipline Kids Lovingly and Effectively
• My Top Posts From October 2011
• 3 Steps to Annihilate Stress
• How Ghostbusters Should Have Ended
• How to Be Happy No Matter What You’re Doing
• The 1 Word Everyone is Dying for You to Say
• 6 Tips to Help a Family in Crisis
• In a Rut? Here’s How to Get Unstuck
• The Imperial March Played on Floppy Drives
• Leaders Who Last All Have This One Thing In Common
• 2 Keys to Having Great Ideas
• The Secret to Watching Less TV
• A HUGE Thank You to Every Kidmin Pastor
• How Super Mario Should Have Ended
• How to Get The Most From Your Day Off
• Why More Kids Don’t Live The Bible
• The Secret Sauce to Partnering With Parents
• The Real Reason Parents Don’t Know What’s Going On In Your Ministry
• Clip of “Toy Story” Reenacted with Real Toys
• How to Get Ready for Next Year Before This Year Is Over
• When Kids Want to Get Baptized But They’re Not Ready
• 1 Super Easy Tip For Volunteers to Have a Presence in a Kid’s Life Outside The Weekend (without looking like a creeper)
• 7 Words That Will Make Parents Love You
• How Captain America Should Have Ended
• 20 Kidmin Social Media Tips
• Orange Tour 2011 Highlights
• What Having Dyslexia Taught Me About Loving God
• How to Be a Better Leader in 7 Words
• How Your iPhone Can Make You a Better Teacher
• What Does a Kids’ Pastor Do Anyway?
• How to Get The Help You Need
• The Mistake Every Kidmin Makes
• You Are Doing Too Much
• 4 Jobs Every Children’s Pastor Must Make a Priority
• How to Take Your Blog to The Next Level
• 5 More DOS and DONTS of Teaching Kids
• 1 Super Simple Tip To Grow Your Kidmin
• Why Your Volunteers are Miserable (and what to do about it)
• Free Kidmin Volunteer Orientation Kit
• How to Get a Kids Ministry Job, Pt. 2
• How to Get a Kids Ministry Job, Pt. 1
• 5 Questions to Ask Before Your Next Kidmin Video
• The Secret to Powerful Communication
• What Kids REALLY Think About Christianity
• 11 Ways to Make Your Kids’ Ministry Baptisms Awesome
• Stuff Kids’ Pastors Like #5: “Playing 4 Corners to Stall When the Senior Pastor Goes Over”
• Top Posts for May 2011
• A Restaurant Might Be a Dive, Even by Dive Standards, If…
• 4 Responses to the Waiter Who Keeps Refilling Your Drink When it Doesn’t Need Refilling
• 10 People You’ll Meet in Line at the Grocery Store (Pt 2)
• 10 People You’ll Meet in Line at the Grocery Store (Pt 1)
• The Secret to Getting Things Done
• 6 Things to Do After a Rapture False Alarm
• One of the Best Ways to Build Trust in Any Relationship
• TakeThemAMeal.com
• What I Learned about Dealing with Conflict from Doing the Dishes
• 10 Things I Learned From Jim Collins
• 5 Questions to Ask Your Team
• 10 Reasons Why Kids’ Ministry Leaders are Awesome
• 5 Thoughts about My Mom on Mother’s Day
• How Toy Story 3 Should Have Ended
• How Google is Ruining Our Lives
• Kids’ Ministry Small Group Freebie
• April 2011′s Most Popular Posts
• Your Emails are Too Long
• What We See vs. What Kids See
• You are Writing Your Eulogy Right Now
• GIVE AWAY: “2-minute Encouragers for Teachers”
• Kids’ Ministry Job Descriptions
• What If There Had Been Twitter at The First Easter?
• 5 Tips for Leaders Who Last
• 3 Great Videos to Help Easter Come Alive in Your Kids Ministry
• March 2011′s Most Popular Posts
• JeffMcClung.com
• Winner of “Outlive Your Life”
• The World’s Most Typical Person
• Setting the Right Objectives in Kids’ Ministry
• Why Getting Older Doesn’t Guarantee Good Sense
• GIVE AWAY: “Outlive Your Life” by Max Lucado
• The History of Social Media
• When Scented Candles Go Wrong
• It’s OK to Admit Defeat When…
• 5 Ways to Connect with Other Children’s Ministry Pastors
• Start as You Mean to Go
• Running Sunday School Teachers Off
• Random Acts of Kindness are Good, But Planned Ones are Better
• How to Make Sure Your Meetings Don’t Stink
• The 2 Most Dangerous Words in a Leader’s Vocabulary
• The Lawyer to Call If You’ve Had an Accident While Reconstructing an Accident
• Leading on Empty
• Parent Newsletters
• Catalyst West 2011 Notes
• God is Not a White Man
• uMove – The Latest Gaming Craze
• What a Baby Hippo Can Teach Us About Life, Ministry, and Leadership
• Inviting Evaluation from Your Team
• Top 5 Posts from February 2011
• Winners of “Forgotten God”
• Paranoid Driving
• Just Listening May Be The Most Powerful Thing That You Can Do
• 5 Ways to Get Volunteers onto Your Children’s Ministry Team
• GIVE AWAY: “Forgotten God” by Francis Chan
• Why You Should NEVER Interrupt Someone While They’re Reading a Book
• Cool Resource to Take Games in Kids’ Ministry to The Next Level
• 1 Simple Action That Will Help You Avoid Up To 80% of Your Mistakes
• 5 Things a Children’s Ministry Leader Has to Do Every Day
• Kids Asking Hilariously Weird Questions About Jesus
• Ultimate Caption Fail
• When Life Get Tough In Kids’ Ministry, God Has a Way of Balancing Things Out
• When Object Lessons Go Wrong
• Is Your Children’s Ministry Website Getting a Passing Grade?
• The Snazzy Napper
• 2 Mentors That Every Children’s Ministry Worker Needs
• 4 Lies About Children’s Ministry
• Top Posts for January 2011
• Unbeatable Video Games From The 80s
• WEIGH-IN: How Do You Do Small Groups for Preschool and Kindergarten?
• GIVE AWAY: “Read and Share Bible”
• How One Girl Is Making a Big Dream a Reality
• The Zen Approach to Problem-Solving in Children’s Ministry
• The 1 Thing That Will Never Change in Children’s Ministry
• REVIEW: “Read and Share Bible”
• 10 Things I Believe About Children’s Ministry
• Just For Fun Monday: Calvinist Pick-Up Lines
• Does Your Children’s Ministry Answer Kids’ Questions?
• 3 Things Every Children’s Ministry Needs To Do Well
• Media Diet Calculator
• Leaders Are Dealers In Hope
• How to Make The Most of The New Year
• Top 10 Posts From 2010
• 40 Ways to Show Kids That You Care, Pt. 4
• 40 Ways to Show Kids That You Care, Pt. 3
• 40 Ways to Show Kids That You Care, Pt. 2
• 40 Ways to Show Kids That You Care, Pt. 1
• How Your Children’s Ministry Cry Room May Be Like The UFC Octagon
• Things I Learned and Loved About Children’s Ministry in 2010
• How to Lead More Productive Meetings
• The 5 People Who Will Frustrate You In Children’s Ministry And How to Love Them
• Every Children’s Ministry Worker Needs to Hit The Pause Button Sometimes
• When Parents Just Don’t Get It
• Kids’ Ministry Budgeting Templates & Tips
• The Very Last Room – A Christmas Nativity Story
• 25 Christmas Songs In 2 Minutes
• When You Feel Like Quitting Children’s Ministry
• 5 DOs and DONTs of Teaching Kids
• Free Children’s Ministry Christmas Lesson
• 30 Things I’ve Learned At 30, Pt. 3 of 3
• Top Kids’ Ministry Posts: November 2010
• 30 Things I’ve Learned At 30, Pt. 2 of 3
• 30 Things I’ve Learned At 30, Pt. 1 of 3
• The First Thanksgiving
• 10 Reasons Children’s Pastors are Important
• 5 Websites For Your Children’s Ministry
• Multi-Site Children’s Ministry Playbook
• Stuff Kids’ Pastors Like #4: “Calling The Adult Service ‘Big Church’”
• Stuff Kids’ Pastors Like #3: “Hating to Be Asked When You’ll Become a Real Pastor”
• Stuff Kids’ Pastors Like #2: “Flannel Graph”
• POLL: How Do You Do Family Experiences Without Burning Out?
• Darth Vader Sells Mobile Phones in Japan
• Two Questions That Can Focus Your Life
• Stuff Kids’ Pastors Like #1: “Goldfish Crackers”
• Teaching the Bible so Kids Want More of It
• Why You Can’t Make Everybody Happy and Why You Shouldn’t Try
• If You’re NOT a Morning People
• Free Elementary Coordinator Job Description
• POLL: How Often Do You Blog?
• How to Deal with Conflict
• The Top 10 Posts From October 2010
• How It Should Have Ended
• Important Life Lessons from Movies Pt. 4: What “Shawshank” Taught Me About Hope
• Monsters ARE Real
• Important Life Lessons from Movies Pt. 3: What “Braveheart” Taught Me About Honor
• Important Life Lessons from Movies Pt. 2: What “Ferris Bueller” Taught Me About Fun
• Important Life Lessons from Movies Pt. 1: What “Finding Nemo” Taught Me About Fear
• Grover vs. The Old Spice Guy
• Writing a Plan that Your Boss will Back
• Helping Families Manage Stress at Home
• Free Elementary Ministry Volunteer Manual
• Preparing Kids for Junior High
• Free Tool to Help You Get Things Done
• 25 Things I Hate About Facebook
• Building a Legacy Worth Leaving Behind
• Why You Need to Say “No” More Often
• How to Appreciate Others
• Be Careful What You Post Online
• Bowlin’ (featuring Chris Tomlin)
• “Saved by the Bell”: The Movie?
• The One Question that Changed Our Lives
• 6 Disciplines Every Leader Needs, Pt. 2
• 6 Disciplines Every Leader Needs, Pt. 1
• Your 10 Favorite Posts From September 2010
• One Team, One Fight
• Children’s Ministry is More Than Crafts, Bible Trivia, and Babysitting
• Do You Know What’s Happening to You? Pt. 2
• Do You Know What’s Happening to You? Pt. 1
• POLL: What is Your Children’s Ministry doing on Halloween?
• Links on Culture, Critics, Marriage, and More
• Tool for Families to Invite Others to Church
• How to Get Families to Do Something about Sunday the other Six Days of the Week
• Children’s Ministry is Not a Joke
• Our Adoption Interviews are Beginning
• Links for Mac Users, Parents, and CM Leaders
• How to Help your Team Handle Busy Seasons
• POLL: How’s Budget Season Going for You?
• 4 Questions to Ask About a Potential Leader
• My Bible Journey…Ezekiel 27-28
• Thoughts from the Week…September 12, 2010
• Brian Regan on Flying
• 7 Ways Your Children’s Ministry Can Partner With Parents
• POLL: How Do You Get Your Blogs?
• My Bible Journey…Ezekiel 8-11
• Trunk Monkey
• Top Posts on the Blog…August, 2010
• FutureMe.org
• Action Figure Theater: “Why Han is Solo”
• Priorities of a Multi-Site Kidmin
• POLL: What do you need The Most Help figuring out in your Children’s Ministry?
• Resources and Free Stuff added to the Blog
• My Bible Journey…Jeremiah 37-39
• Adoption Update…August 28, 2010
• TNT Airlines
• 5 Resources for Kids of Families in Recovery
• My Bible Journey…Psalm 112 and Jeremiah 22
• Thoughts from the Week…August 22, 2009
• My Bible Journey…Ecclesiastes 11:1-6
• Living a Better Story
• How to Write Emails that Your Team Will Actually Read
• Follow-up Letter to Parents about Small Groups
• The Most Important Word In Children’s Ministry