I am currently looking to run electrical to my garage. I live in Minneapolis, Mn. I have heard numerous ways in which to accomplish this but thought I would ask hear for some further advise? I would also like to put in two outside outlets with boxes and possibly lighting above the boxes in the future. Please help.

Stratmando

If you have 2 lights, they might need switch, this is where you might run Feed from panel.
If romex is used, go from switch to lite then to other lite.
Then Switch box to first recpticle then 2nd recpticle. Put GFI in first recpticle and regular recpticle in second.
If conduit(metal, PVC , ENT(Smurf)is used. basically. just connect with least amount of pipe, You would't want to pipe, where you are pulling the load of GFI through both lights.
Use 2 Gang, You may need switch for inside or recpticle. Deep Boxes dont hurt.
Don't use Cut In boxes, unless you have to.
What material is garage? concrete, wood and plaster have their method.

Clough

In addition to the above, good answer, I added electricity to my garage a number of years ago. Since I needed to use my garage as a workshop, I wanted a lot of outlets and lights out there. I added a separate breaker box in the garage running Romex from the main breaker box in my home. It wasn't hard for me to do. But, it did take a lot of work.

Two things that really helped me was to purchase a book on electrical/wiring and a book on the correct way to install things to code in my vicinity.