The Hard Work Of Youth Ministry

…reach teenagers growing up in the post-Christian culture

“And that has profound impacts. It changes what kids are taught in the school, changes the way religious organizations are treated,”

Caught on camera…jumps on moving SUV to save Son

8th graders receiving lessons on “oral and anal” sex. kindergarten, taught about same-sex or gay marriage

A Statement from the Anglican Church in North America

Step back and remind ourselves that we own the phone, the phone does not own us

Passion for God’s Word is caught, not taught

“would do anything to undo her actions and knows she will carry the pain and scars of what happened for the rest of her life”

Parental involvement laws…reflect the commonsense principle that parents are responsible for their kids

Find Your Life!

Jim Liebelt

Jim Liebelt

Gen Z Shifts Their Focus on College Admissions, Value of a Degree

Emotional Intelligence?

Common Sense Media

You can’t go wrong if you major in a STEM field and other myths about college

You gave it your all this week. And still, no one new showed up. What’s up with that?

…And What To Watch For in Your Own Life

Ben Read

In today’s youth culture, sex is incredibly hard to navigate well, even more so for Christian teens

Relationships between youth pastors and senior pastors are notorious

“You cannot imagine the weeping and gnashing of teeth that will ensue when I try to make these children fold a dish towel.”

The 13- and 14-year-olds came up with the idea for a condom that changes colors…

Teen employment has fallen in recent decades

Focus group of 24 kids finds they do understand dangers of cigarettes

Vietnam War healing

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Emotional Affair: A relationship, which excludes physical intimacy but includes emotional intimacy

Jim Wideman

My Secret Sauce For Youth Ministry

Greg Baird

A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

Teaching teens moderation, modeling it, setting realistic boundaries will help teens develop the self-control necessary to reject binge behavior

If you hold to traditional values, you’re a ‘f***ing dork’

Video: Police Respond to Report of Fight at Public Pool. Now Officers Are Accused of Racial Targeting, Excessive Force

Leneita Fix

…Will make you call your dad

Study: which screened more than 15,000 Americans and interviewed nearly 3,000, radically challenges the previous scientific consensus

local research finds

Parents’ influence on teens’ drinking varies in girls and boys

Jim Liebelt

Jim Liebelt

Jim Liebelt

Jim Liebelt

75% say it lets them feel like a child again

Some Students Spending 75% Of School Day On iPads

He goes to our church but isn’t part of youth ministry and we have no idea why

Brad M. Griffin

Marko

Paint in broad strokes what your youth ministry year will look like at this point. Lots of prayer – ask God for discernment. Use pencil

Older parents face an increased risk of having a child with autism, new research shows

This Neuroscientist Has The Answer

Since 1996, 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana

More teens going to emergency rooms with self-inflicted injuries

Are teens partying less?

High-school seniors in the mid-1990s appeared to have more faith in social mobility and less confidence in the power of having money

Walt Mueller

Police Department Wanted Taylor Swift to See a Video. When She Did, the Singer Knew She Had to Act

Thomas Edison was committed to his imagination. He pictured a new reality and worked tirelessly thinking through possibilities

“How do we create a culture of participation, passion, and engagement in the broader church in our youth groups?”

Convictional Leadership

Avoiding Creating a Church within a Church

The 8-year-old’s mission began at the end of 2012 after seeing young patients on a St. Jude Children’s Hospital

Cheap thrill at the expense of another, but without any personal accountability or commitment to that human being

Carey Nieuwhof

It’s Never Too Late to Parent
Parenting is hard, even if you have great kids like I do. What do you do?

Jim Liebelt

Jim Liebelt

Jim Liebelt

Be Part of the 2015 Challenge Match…

Podcast: A 5 part series

“What should I teach next?”

by Andy Blanks

Tim Elmore

Blames emotional stress for aggression at pool party. “The nature of these two suicide calls took an emotional toll on Eric Casebolt,”

The Rest of the Story

The video shows one of the boys “kind of reaching behind his back.”

10 Thoughts

Social media is a powerful thing that can help you be more effective today as you try to reach students

…international competition for jobs, pluralistic values, and the potential for greater psychological, emotional and behavioral issues?

“Why were we still doing this?” said Julian. “There is no reason to separate people by genders anymore.”

The reality is that you possess the power to create culture because of what you value

By Walt Mueller

Time is never wasted on the one; the one teenager who is willing to work, to learn, to listen, to show up early and stay late and do anything that is asked of them

I love that Louie is challenging young people to look past the glitter of youth to what matters most

If you want people to join your ministry team you need to make sure it’s winning

Black children between the ages of 5 and 11 killed themselves

The response of the….will always be the best litmus test as to how I’m doing

The clean-manger youth worker values order, predictability, and confort above growth and ministry impact

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The Progressive Solution to Properly Developing Our Children

Internet Enamored with Occult Game

Searches for ouija boards on Google up 300% since last month…hottest gifts likely to sell out this season

What you will talk about will change, but maybe there are some principles that you can apply to any hot topic

The best way to raise up a kid is to just loosen up. Nothing ever got raised up when held down tight