by Chet Cromer | May 25, 2025 | Journals
When Your Gifts Are Silenced In Part 1, I shared how a place that once felt like home—especially in youth ministry—can slowly become unfamiliar. How subtle shifts, unspoken decisions, and relational distance can leave you feeling like an outsider in a space where you...
by Chet Cromer | Mar 16, 2025 | Journals
When Church Doesn’t Feel Like Home I’ve been wrestling with something lately — something that I never really thought I’d have to face. I’ve been part of a church community for a long time. I’ve sat through countless Sunday sermons, served in ministries, and...
by Chet Cromer | Aug 11, 2010 | Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tonight I’m once again leading the youth group at our church. Tonight we’re going to talk about Affirmations. An affirmation is telling yourself, in times of doubt, that which you know to be true at other times. This takes some forethought, of course,...
by Chet Cromer | Oct 9, 2009 | Thoughts, Uncategorized
This continues a series of events known as a weekend in my life… Part one is here. So after a long Saturday, we hit the sack for a good 6 hours of sleep before waking up and hitting a Sunday running. We’ve lined up some teenage friends to come home with us...
by Chet Cromer | Aug 12, 2009 | Thoughts, Uncategorized
From The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis I note with grave displeasure that your patient has become a Christian. Do not indulge the hope that you will escape the usual penalties; indeed, in your better moments, I trust you would hardly even wish to do so. In the...
