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Intentionally designed to stir your youth ministry imagination and assist you in discerning God’s leading for your unique expression of youth ministry
From My Heart To My Hands: Lay Me...
Casey Palicki is a senior and serves as co-leader of the New Vision WAVE Team. She has been involved with Vision 2…
Flashback: Social Media Myth...
By Brad Howell | Associate director of Fuller Seminary’s Northern California campus.
Flashback: 7 Trends Shaping Africa&...
Currently, 70% of Africans are under the age of 30. By 2040, 50% of the world’s youth will be African, most of…
InterVarsity “Derecognized&...
Ed Stetzer: Will students with actual beliefs be allowed to have organizations on campus?
Teenagers: “Sin Is Always, In...
God’s Beauty for the Bored, Busy, and Depressed
College Doesn’t Change Your Heart...
What do you do with a broken heart?
Dear Kids: Why Wait till Marriage
What No One Tells You & What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
Did My Time As A Youth Pastor
“Teenagers are a valuable part of our churches” and that is why it takes a calling from God to do his work in the role of a youth pastor
Helping Parents Lead Their Family...
We need to help parents realize that just waiting until arriving at church to worship isn’t enough, for themselves and for their kids
What Your College Kid Isn’t...
More than half of college students (55%) admit they hide their finances and spending information from Mom Dad
Dads Are Getting Schooled
Over 2.6 million single fathers in the US and they reported in 2012 there were over 2 million stay-at-home dads
Another Teen Attempted Murder...
Fourteen-year-old Florida teen Lily Marie Hartwell, who was a fan of the cult horror character
Disney Taking Deadmau5 To Court...
Deadmau5 isn’t backing down, and has told Disney to lawyer up
Doctors Urge Later School Starts...
Puberty may biologically wire teens to stay up late and wake up late—which means that forcing them to bed earlier won’t do…
Teens Favor Tech Over Clothes
Clothes aren’t as important to me,” She probably spends more on technology because she likes to “stay connected,”
Most Teenagers Believe Porn Is...
Teenagers in Britain shows that many think porn leads to unrealistic or damaging views about sex
Is Social Media Causing Us to Self...
Rutgers University has found that social media doesn’t encourage discussion on controversial subjects. It may, in fact, cause people to stay quiet
3 Ideas to Get Your Next Gen...
Understanding, promoting and cheering for one another’s ministry is a sign of health, maturity and holistic mentality
How Do Professionals Perceive Youth...
…without diplomacy and tact only causes us to get burned-out, worn out, or thrown out.
The Mobile Teen [infographic]
Here are the latest stats about our teens use their phones, from dawn till dusk
About All the Leaked Photos
More importantly, though, we need to be discussing these things with our kids
Sticky Faith Hangout and Q&A...
A snapshot of the 5-hour Intensive on “Sticky Faith: How to Help Teens Maintain Their Faith Long-Term.”
The Best Free Online Training…...
Youth workers take advantage Jonathan McKee’s FREE resource, it is the best I have seen in a long time
Update: Church Stops Game of...
Controversial Game of Thrones Nude Scene Is HAPPENING BUT NOT IN CHURCH
Flashback: Should I Watch..sexually...
Popularity, availability… how about the morality of these shows?
Memory Verses Made Simple
Here is a tip or memory trick for your students
12 Tips for Stopping a Ministry or...
#1.Connect the change to the overall mission and vision…
Sinéad O’Connor Thinks Today...
Their audience are children and those children are being raised to believe their value is in how pretty they are and how…
The Identical Movie: Elvis-esque,...
A fun Rock ‘n’ Roll parable with an upbeat, inspiring, message about finding purpose, revealing secrets, and experiencing redemption
Could This Tiny Picture Get an 11...
11-year-old boy, who attends an online school was asked to remove a picture of a gun from his digital profile..virtual guns are…
15-Year-Old Girl Sabotaged a...
When she saw a display recommending books to read after the soft-pornographic book “After Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Cost Of Educating New Class Of...
A new report puts the price of educating the thousands of illegal immigrant children who recently crossed into the U.S
Marijuana’s Hazy Contribution...
In 2012, just over 10 percent of high school seniors said they had smoked pot before driving at least once in the…
Celebrity Nudes
Beware…just because it’s up in the cloud doesn’t mean it can’t come raining back to Earth
Meet the Incoming High School...
I thought it would be fun to think of a few cultural touchstones related to the incoming high school freshman
The Bible Speaks Today: New...
Bestselling New Testament volumes are made available in electronic form search every page for a passage or topic in only seconds
How Does Divorce Really Affect Kids...
Most parents who divorce are in denial about how it affects their kids
Why Your Network Is Not About You
Top entrepreneurs use three simple rules when building up their network of professional contacts
Back To School Student Success...
Dare to be Bright: a systenatic, holistic approach to studying forexams and doing better at school
Millennials’: I Want My Kid...
They loved the 90s TV and Movies..“letting kids be kids” more educational and wholesome. Family, lessons, morals,
4 Constant Reminders for Every...
Over and over I have to embrace these humbling ideas as I try to lead the people around me. Here they are……
7 Steps To Deliver Top Notch...
If you do not know how to deliver a message to teenagers you’ll have a hard time influencing and impacting them
5 Roles Youth Workers Play In The...
There are roles a youth worker plays in the life of our teenagers that can be essential to our students spiritual development
Avoiding Rookie Mistakes In Youth...
Here’s a list of some of the more common mistakes rookie youth workers make, and some thoughts on how to avoid them
Are You Engaged With Teenagers...
How can we begin to think about making this happen?
Teens Are Getting Pickier About The...
Teens are seeking cheaper clothes with no logos that they can use to assemble their own unique outfits
Video Helps Gay Teen Disowned By...
A 19-year-old college student from Georgia secretly filmed a confrontation with his Christian parents who disapproved of him being gay
Study: Parental Incarceration May...
Black children with fathers without a high school diploma, 50% parental incarceration by 14, compared to 7% of white children
Beloit College Mindset List for the...
For students entering college this fall in the Class of 2018 they were…
Teens Who Skimp On Sleep May Face...
Teens typically need around nine-and-one-quarter hours of sleep a night, according to the National Sleep Foundation
Review of Fuller Youth Institute...
This book is covered in grace…“Mom, Dad, Stepmom, Stepdad, Grandma, or Grandpa, please know this: Jesus is bigger than your mistakes too.”
Marine Just Issued An Epic...
We need to stop talking, acting..like thugs, and start talking, acting…like men. Stop making the conscious decision to fit the description.”
MTV Bloodstained Hypocrisy of...
When it comes to holding themselves accountable for fostering black-on-black violence, Hollywood’s gangstas have adopted a systematic code of silence
The $1 Will Buy You Free Taco Bell...
Taco Bell launched a campaign this week in which anyone who finds one of 11 specific $1 bills can win a $10,000…
Massive Hulk Dad Interrupts
Hulk Statue Creates A Stir During Flood News Coverage
Florida City Makes It Illegal to...
“We are tired of seeing young men of all descriptions… walking around with their pants down and their underwear showing,”
Family Could Lose Home Over Son’s...
Property can be seized by police without requiring a conviction — or even a criminal charge, in some cases — and the…
Book Review: “Teaching Teenagers...
Book Review – “Teaching Teenagers in a Post-Christian World”
Bill Nance
Using Lots of Pot Turns Teens Dopey
…is not safe and may result in addiction and neurocognitive damage, especially in youth
Flashback: Obama: Marijuana no more...
As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice,…
Screen Time Makes Tweens Clueless...
Children and teenagers spend more than seven and a half hours a day using smartphones, computers, televisions and other electronic screens
Texas Dad Acquitted in Shooting...
The Dad was pushing his broken-down car with his two sons back in 2012 when Jose Banda, a drunken driver, fatally struck…
THOUGHTS FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG TEENS...
Marko: Our middle school grade son seems to have no real friendships…Is this normal?
Bobby Jindal Suing Feds Over Common...
“effectively forces states down a path toward a national curriculum” in violation of the state sovereignty clause in the Constitution and federal..
Motion Picture Books
Books: The Bestsellers Americans Are (and Aren’t) Reading
Flashback: Teenage Perspective on...
Have you ever asked your own kids for parenting advice?
Miley Cyrus’ Date Wanted by...
The young homeless man who accompanied Miley Cyrus to the MTV Video Music Awards has a warrant out for his arrest in…
Public Schools: Christians Are Part...
Nearly half (46%) maintain that public schools have further declined in the last five years
What Did Literally Millions Of Teen...
Our culture has literally grown numb to the growing sexualization of our girls
Church Stops ‘Game of Thrones...
famous scene…Lena Headey — to walk out of the Church of St. Nicholas onto the streets naked
Professor Breaks Down Why He...
Conservatives, on the other hand, are continuously forced to examine their worldview based on what more liberal professors throw their way
Beyonce MTV VMAs Feminist...
Twitter reacts to singer’s ‘double standard’ I don’t think beyonce is or should be considered the modern age face of feminism.
Flashback: Feminist? Beyonce is ...
Tomlin added young girls are “too sexually available”..contemporary culture is too sexualized
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