Jeff Tillson

Loneliness is painful; but are you bringing it on yourself, and is there hope and help for finding community for a leader such as yourself?

Some struggle to plan our next move, but for those who seek to be strategic in their teaching, a multi-year teaching plan can be a huge help.

Growing up in middle class suburbia, I knew little about folks who lived in small towns. I wasn’t sure if there were really people who had shot guns in the rear window of their pick-up trucks (and who could open the hood and fix just about any problem the truck had) or if this was just a myth.

Now I know how C.S. Lewis felt when he was writing The Screwtape Letters. Lewis tried to imagine how demons thought. I've been trying to imagine how a grossly naive, proudly ignorant and unbelievably self-centered new youth worker might think, It's been driving me crazy -- because I think I used to be...

Let’s face it—hanging out with middle school (I call it junior high!) students in the hopes of bringing them closer to Jesus takes serious guts. It is an energy-packed, patience-stretching, sometimes smelly, time-consuming, thankless, awkward and overlooked calling. We are clearly the only people on...