If you’re looking for ideas, or wonder what I talk about so often, here’s a list of topics I often talk about. Most talks are suitable for junior teens upwards.

Schools
Secondary

• “Welcome Home” – the practical role of a Heavenly Home, earthly homes, secondary homes, and the One who left his heavenly home to make his home in our hearts. How to maximize these homes.
• Why we hurt each other, and what to do about it (why we don’t do the good we know we should! Good biology, psychology, theology!)
• Valuing People (why people matter)
• Heroes (6 criteria)
• Dare to be Different (handling negative peer pressure)
• Choices (considerations & blindspots)
• Real Relationships (more than infatuation)
• Don’t Kiss the Mirror (coolness & life-enhancing)
• Ways of Knowing (more than science)
• Easter
• Christmas
• Core Stuff

Primary

• “Welcome Home” – Celebrating a Heavenly Home, earthly homes, secondary homes, and the One who left his heavenly home to make his home in our hearts. Make yourself at home.
• The Animal Within, and what to do about it (why we don’t do the good we know we should!)
• Anger
• Many other programs with Rob Adams
• Easter
• Christmas

Outreach
Life topics

• Performance Acceptance Treadmill
• Achievement & Attachment
• Ahmed Shah
• Love 101 (camp series)
• Valuing people
• Following with Steel & Stars
• Different Kinds of Doubt
• My God! It is Alive!

Straight talk (suitable from junior teens up)

• Core Stuff – real reasons for hope (series for camps +)
• Join the Dots
• Dominoes

All-ages together

• Go God’s Way (talks 1, 2, and 3)
• Eric the Hairball
• HMSS Integrity
• Bee Attitudes (camp series)
• Transformers: Justice, Mercy, Humbly (camp series)
• Biblical proportions! (camp series, overviewing entire Bible!)

Churches (& youth)

• Christ’s ‘Kingdom of God’ vs 5 other stories
• Christ in the Passover
• The naked towel man
• Basic discipling (series includes Core Stuff, but also Baton-passing topics like: prayer, putting off/on, Bible study tools, dream-setting, working, spiritual warfare, witness, fleshing out, heart mind soul strength, temptation, passing it on)
• Churches I’ve seen (different ways of doing it)
• Cheers Neighbors Network (6 ’bones’ of doing church)
• Christ & Culture (Acts 17)
• Uniqueness of Christ (in a postmodern world)
• Learning to See (Missio Dei)
• Transforming AS you Go
• Treading on God’s Heels (different ways of approaching God)
• Community (working from a foundation of belovedness)
• Gender, God, & emerging mission
• Suffering
• Worship as all-of-life
• Christ in you – the secret of living
• Christ prays for us! (John 17)

Training

• Apologetics (how to do)
• Practical (& non-obnoxious) evangelism
• Life-Sharing (Luke & Acts)
• Story-boarding (active learning lesson-planning)
• Church & Mission (ecclesia word study)
• Reaching Aussies
• Basic training for local missios (includes Forge’s paradigms of mission, spirituality, and leadership)
• Types of “Emerging Church”
• APEs (the forgotten leadership of Apostles, Prophets, and Evangelists)