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The Work Of The Chaplain
An ideal starting point for all, including seminarians, who are exploring a call to chaplaincy ministry
Recruiting And Training Volunteers...
Podcast:Recruiting and training volunteers has always been a challenging proposition for ministry leaders.
Handling Criticism In Ministry...
Podcast: Criticism is something every leader faces, and so every leader needs to know how to walk through it.
Faith Foundations
We can teach our children to discover and explore the evidence and learn how science and history back up the Scriptures
Presenting The Gospel To Children
Approximately half of the people in America who come to faith in Christ respond to the Gospel before the age of 13*.
Young People’s Trust In Religious...
…but trust in relationships with religious people is still extremely high
Kids Book: Elephants Are Not Birds
Gender identity. Culture the Vulture convinces Kevin that his ability to sing is one that only birds have
Kids Book: Little Lives Matter
On Sanctity Of Life, Momma Bear won’t give up on Mobi even when Culture the Vulture offers her an easier life
How Parents Can Pass Their Faith On To...
The more religiously committed parents are, the more they want their children to grow up believing and practicing the family’s religion.
Book: American Marxism
By Mark R. Levin. The widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory
The Beauty Of The Church With Our Kids
Intergenerational Relationships in Our Children’s Lives
Belong: Teenagers Need Church Community
Teenagers Need the Church as the Place of True Community
Study: Is Jesus The Only Way?
60% of born again Christians 18 and 39 believe that Buddha, Muhammad and Jesus are all valid paths to salvation
Book: Black Eye For America… Critical...
In schools and workplaces across the United States, Americans are being indoctrinated with a divisive, anti-American ideology: Critical Race Theory (CRT). Based…
Zuckerberg Is Planting The First Church...
“Facebook is shaping the future of religious experience itself, as it has done for political and social life.”
Flashback: A Global Study On The State...
I’ll process five sections of the report: Christian practice, struggles, social media, sexuality, and the meaning of life in teens’ lives
What is Progressive Christianity?
You might have heard the term “Progressive Christianity” or “Progressive Christian.” But what do those terms mean?
The Ten (bad) Commandments Of...
Liberal Christianity never really goes away. Be able to distinguish the true faith from the false.
To Read With Your College-Bound Child
There’s a long, hot summer ahead, but for parents who are sending a child off to college for the first time, these…
Make Camp Possible For Children Of...
Angel Tree® Camping providing scholarships and partnering with churches and camps nationwide
When Students Leave The Faith
4 Ways Youth Leaders Should Respond When Students Leave the Faith
Lonely Kids And The Church
“This is the most lonely generation,” said Josh Packard, sociologist
Book: Handing Down The Faith
How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation
Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith...
Book:How do American parents pass their religion on to their children? At a time of overall decline of traditional religion
The Collapse Of Parenting
Over the past 30 years, a major shift has occurred in American culture: the transfer of authority from parents to children
Book: The Pandemic Population
how to lead youth in a crisis. Eight Strategies to Help Generation Z Rediscover Hope After Coronavirus.
Chan: Churches Must Bring ‘...
..as increasing numbers abandon Christianity.The world looks at evangelical Christianity as joke
The New Normal: To Care For Gen Z Post...
Rooted in new research, these 8 tips will help you rebuild trust, understand where young people are at, and exercise empathy.
The State of Religion & Young...
Unpacking the complexity of young peoples’ religious lives, with special features exploring how they feel about politics, careers, and online gatherings
Barna: Trauma In America
A guidebook to help church leaders minister to people who are hurting
Helping Teenagers With Religious...
Religious pluralism doesn’t have to be a youth ministry boogeyman
Teaching Children A Biblical View Of...
In the U.S., we are daily hearing about, debating, protesting, expressing outrage, and more over “racism.”
Why Do We Say ‘Gospel-Centered’?
For the past decade and a half, there has been no bigger buzzword in American evangelical circles than “gospel-centered.”
Fauci CDC Summer Camp Guidance ‘...
Critics say guidance for summer camps lack scientific backing
Book: God Made All of Me
A Read-Aloud Story to Help Children Protect Their Bodies
Book: Talking Back to Purity Culture
Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality
U.S. Church Membership Falls Below...
Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup’s eight-decade
Views Of Life’s Meaning And Purpose...
Americans are also more likely to contemplate whether they will go to heaven when they die but less likely to strongly believe…
Investigating Jesus For Violating Stay...
Roman Authorities Investigating Jesus
Polish Pastor Chase Police Out Of His...
Who came there to shut him down for Rona violations
Easier Transition From Children’s To...
Pouring in the lives of younger kids can ease the anxiety of transitioning into student ministry because it bridges the invisible gap…
How To Prepare Parents For Spiritual...
Learn how to give parents a vision for leading, confidence, a blessing, practical tools, community, and more
Hope For Parents In The Here And Now
The Promise of a New Heaven and a New Earth:
Why No One Understands the Reformation...
In what sense are we in communion with Irenaeus, Athanasius, Augustine, Anselm and Thomas Aquinas?
Book: When Relationships Matter…...
Make Your Church A Place Where Kids & Teenagers Belong
Book: Cultural Intelligence Living In A...
To understand the changing world around us, and engage it. To edify the church and seek the lost
Gen Z Craves Spiritual Mentoring
Though the majority of Gen Z is not engaged in scriptural study and has a distrustful relationship with religious institutions
Faith Under Fire
Gingrich warns U.S. religious liberty in gravest peril since Revolutionary War
Preventing Burning Out
6 ways to prevent your children’s ministry director from burning out
Catechize Your Children
Catechesis is not just an option you can take or leave. Because someone will catechize your children
Book: Gospel-Centered Kids Ministry
Gospel-Centered Kids Ministry How the gospel will transform your kids, your church, your community, and the world
Churches Under Attack Cultural Shift In...
“The underlying motive of these sacrilegious attacks is clear: to intimidate and instill fear in the hearts of those who worship Christ,”
U.S. Teens Take After Their Parents...
When it comes to religion, American teenagers and their parents tend to have a lot in common – though not quite as…
Youthmin Leadership Book: Canoeing The...
Explorers Lewis and Clark had to adapt. If you’re going to scale the mountains of ministry, you need to leave behind canoes…
UK: Christian Charity Loses Banking...
The charity also said that they were removed from Facebook, as well as from Paypal
Wake Up America…The Church Co...
ACNA Archbishop Says Church in America has been Co-opted by the Culture
Leading Change When Everything Has...
With a small shift in your mindset, this might be your greatest season of momentum and change
Carey Nieuwhof: Disruptive Church Trends
Leaders who embrace change, who keep pivoting, will end up advancing their mission in the future
Churches Across The Country Are Filing...
liquor stores, marijuana dispensaries..to be considered as “essential” entities, but not Churches?
Reopening Your Kids Ministry
6 Considerations for Reopening your Kids Ministry
ReOpening Children & Family...
now is the time to determine what values and processes will remain consistent, what innovative strategies you’ve
A Discussion On Reopening The Church
During today’s discussion with highly esteemed church leaders, we discussed the path to moving forward after COVID-19
Book: God, Marriage, And Family
God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation
How 6 Pastors Are Thinking About...
However, it can be useful to see how other church leaders are thinking through reopening
Churches: Put Down That Spiritual Gifts...
What the local body misses when it focuses on personality analyses and congregational surveys
Book: Generation Z Unfiltered
Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population
In A Pandemic, Youth Workers Are ...
If we fail to invest in youth work now, we will reap social paralysis for decades to come, resulting in another lost…
10 Ministry Idols Being Exposed By...
The pandemic is teaching us about ourselves and exposing weaknesses in our ministries
Things to consider when your church...
Here is a quick list of six considerations to get your team thinking about returning well
Free Family TableTalk Conversations
What a great opportunity to reset family values and focus on Christ together at the dinner table
Starting Out In Youth Ministry…&...
Walt Mueller: “I wish I had heard this 40 years ago when I was getting started in youth ministry”
FIRED! Part 1: 5 Lies You Are Told
5 Lies You Are Told When You Are Let Go From A Church
FIRED! Part 2: The Redemption Story
Being fired, let go, transitioned out, can be some of the deepest pain and hurt you experience
Billy Graham Library Offers Virtual...
Recipes from Ruth Bell Graham, videos, inspirational graphics, and fun family activities are available
Book: You Found Me. Reaching The...
The unchurched are still remarkably open to faith conversations and the church
City Bans Drive-in Church Services Ahead...
Watch as an officer tells the Pastor that his rights are suspended
I Think We’re In The Greatest Revival...
No better place to find hope than in the Bible and with your families. Spend that time and spend that time in…
Corona Quarantine: Family Faith Talks
Book: Sharing God’s Truth With Your Children
4 Ways to Prepare Your Family for Easter
The Lenten season… a time of reflection and response as people prepare to celebrate the resurrection of Christ
Christianity Offers No Answers About the...
coronavirus-induced limitations on life at the same time as Lent, the traditional season of doing without
Youth Ministers…. Consider An MDiv
Teenagers are people—and like all people, they need pastors
Church of Cowards: Wake-Up Complacent...
The average Christian in America does not know what his own religion teaches, nor does he care
Coronavirus And The Church. A Helpful...
Churches and ministry leaders as they prepare for and respond to Coronavirus in their congregations and communities
Church Get Ready Now! From European...
We talked to pastors from Spain and Italy about their experience, which might be the North American experience in just a few…
Spiritually Preparing Teens For College
How to help teens for Christ in college podcast on The book a different college experience.
10 Things You Can Do In This Shifting...
10 suggestions of ways churches and student ministries can adjust ministry for the foreseeable futur
Girl, 6, Teaches Bible Verse To Brother...
While the world is stocking up on…She realized that it was only his faith that was going to get him through this
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