Great youth ministry leadership is like the French cooking term “mise en place,” or everything in its place: the more prepared you are, the more successful you will be when things get busy...
By Thom McKee
The water has been poisoned and no one has figured it out yet… until tonight. Earlier in the season we saw Alpha orchestrating the pollution of the river with the blood of dead walkers. But until now, we didn’t know how it was poisoning people until Siddiq solved the mystery. Someone switched the valve, allowing the polluted river water into the potable water supply. But the big question is, did Siddiq leave any indication that this was happening before he was choked out by Dante? (Is he dead? Unfortunately it looks like this is the case.)
While Siddiq was dealing with some serious PTSD after watching the deaths of his loved ones, including Enid and Tara, he also has been trying to figure out
By Thom McKee
How long does it take to begin to trust people after you have been betrayed? Is it something that you can get over quickly? Or does it take some time? But imagine if betrayal was something that happened to you regularly. Would you ever be able to trust people?
This is something I always wonder about on The Walking Dead. In the ten seasons of the show, betrayal is something that seems to just happen every other week. In the early seasons of the show you would sometimes be surprised when someone would
Haters are always going to be trying to keep true followers of Jesus off campus. The question is… how do we respond? I’ve found the best response is always to serve and build relationships. Yes that takes...
By Thom McKee
Every parent has that moment when they have to explain to their children where they came from. If you are not a parent, you might remember when it happened to you. This is the moment when you explain some parts of your past that are very different from your children’s present.
Just this last year, my wife’s grandfather passed away. He was a fascinating man who had been a pilot in World War II and he flew in Viet Nam. He was one of the few pilots who went from
We have been created with powerful feelings and desires, but can they be trusted to lead us to make the right choice? The Jonas Brothers reunited in 2019, and their Happiness Begins album raises some questions about the pursuit of happiness. Should we follow our hearts and do what we feel, or is there a better way to go?
By Thom McKee
Have you ever tried to forget about your past? Usually, you don’t want to be reminded of something unwise or embarrassing that you did. But sometimes we don’t want to be reminded of our past because, our past seems better than our present… Or maybe our perceived future.
Tonight on the Walkind Dead, we realize that some people in the zombie apocalypse have good memories of the not so distant past. Most of our characters’ memories are full of pain and loss. But in the case of Ezekiel, this is just not the case.
Ezekiel used to be a zookeeper, but when the dead started walking, he became a