What a MAD weekend! You'll only get that if you were one of the thousand young people or youth leaders at MAD 10 this past weekend. I always enjoy worship conferences, and seeing so many young people hearing God's message is inspiring. But it wasn't so good for me this time. Maybe it's because I missed some of my kids who weren't there, or maybe it's because I turned up late, or maybe it's because I've outgrown it.

I love kids and I'm going to spend most of my life I reckon working with and for kids, hopefully all around the world. So I look at these events, the songs they sing, what the speakers talk about, the layout, the program and in my head I am thinking of all these different ways I would do it to make it better. It's a little bit similar to why I don't like buying books geared towards youth workers. Why would you use other people's ideas when you can use your own? Write your own book.