Tag Archive for church
5 Ways To Embrace Infrequent Church...
What if you helped your infrequent attenders to be the church, not just go to church?
Building Your Volunteer Team
A 30-Day Change Project for Youth Ministry
Preparing For Lent
The practice of Lent is commonly practiced as a way to remember the sacrifice and gift of Christ as the Savior of…
Increased Church Involvement Could Help...
Lower risk of suicide..students who regularly attended religious services and regularly ate a meal with their family
The Stories We Tell: How TV And Movies...
Is about discovering where our culture’s storytellers have embedded the imagery of the gospel into their tales
How Can We Make Teenagers Care About...
Their parents must view faith as important
7 Books To Help Develop A Family...
If you are developing a broader ministry to families in your church…here are some great resources to help you
India Mission
What a blessing we have to impact a country of 1 billion people where only 4% are Christian! Vision 2 Hear is…
Conflict In Youth Ministry
Proactively Responding to Parent Conflict in Youth Ministry
StickyFaith: 2014 Family Mission Trips
Family trips are 4 days and only $129 per person
Not So Popular: Family Mission Trip...
In our divided modern culture where our adullts and youth often experience their faith separately, these opportunities increasingly are rare
How Your Church Can Make Real...
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about social media it’s this: It’s all about human connection
Leading Teenagers Out Of The Overflow Of...
Andy Blanks challenges youth workers to consider how closely they’re following God in their personal lives and how this affects how they…
How Not To Be A Leadership Fad
By definition, no fad lasts. So you cannot build a church that endures by chasing every fad
Flashback: Religious Teens Are Less Like...
Teens With Strong Religious Worldviews More Likely To Avoid Drugs, Alcohol
The Lost Practice Of Catechisms For...
…they would be memorized and used for Christian growth and training
Parents Turned Their Kids In for...
Recorded the program while out at church, spotted their 14-year-old and 16-year-old sons in surveillance footage burglarizing a store
New City Catechism For Kids
A joint adult and children’s catechism consisting of 52 questions and answers adapted by Timothy Keller
The Only Question In Youth Ministry That...
Ownership and perseverance are sustained through life-on-life investment
Study: Religious People Much Happier...
People who attend religious services on a weekly basis are nearly twice as likely to describe themselves as “very happy”
6 Questions To Ask Before Your Church...
People were asked to tithe for 3 months..and if they believed God hadn’t been faithful to them during that time, we would…
5 Lessons I Learned In Youth Group That...
I catch myself returning to some of these lessons all the time…but their foundational truths remain the same
The Unchurched Family in Your...
Over 156 million people in America who do not attend church including over 42 million children and teenagers
7 Things You Can Do If You Want Things...
So what do you do if you want things to change and pretty much no one else does?
How To Create An Amazing Presentation ...
A power point presentation that won’t put people to sleep
9 Signs You’re Burning Out In...
I’m writing this because burnout seems to be an epidemic in ministry leadership
Eight Steps To Managing Your Time In...
We must manage and use our time well to minister effectively…
Flashback: 3 Common Traits of Youth Who...
What is it that sets apart the kids who stay in the church?
Things I Wish I’d Done As A Ministry...
3 Keys To A No-Regrets Ministry
Kidmin: Why the Youth Pastor Should Be...
No one else in ministry is dealing with the same things you are: parent issues, school overload, extracurricular activities, etc
In Life And Death…Give Thanks
We are called to give thanks in all situations but I am struggling to give thanks to God in the face of…
How To Reduce Teen Sexual Activity
How to Reduce Teen Sexual Activity
A Baptist, a pediatrician, and an executive from Planned Parenthood walked into a bar to…
The Small Group Fail
“You must really love us, because there is no way I would be back after the beating you took last week.”
In Life And Death…Give Thanks
In Life And Death…Give Thanks
“The boat is on fire!! Do you see it?” That is what I told my wife as we…
#NYWC: Grace
We have a problem fully embracing Gods grace. We like to replace what He has DONE with what we have to DO
Can Sanford Pastors’ (in the...
We as the church have been given the ministry of reconciliation. There’s no other institution on earth that has been given this…
WHAT I WISH I COULD TELL MY YOUNGER SELF...
I hope it helps you see a Savior who redeems our misses, so that even slow guys like me can “gladly…
Seven Ways To Deal With CAVE Dwellers In...
Critics and naysayers are in every church. They are CAVE (Consistently Against Virtually Everything) Dwellers
3 Keys To A Successful Relationship With...
Never assume you are always right and everyone else is wrong. Unless you are Jesus of course
Ministry That Launches
Our goal..of creating Christian adults and not youth group junkies then we can have no other end goal
What Should A Senior Pastor Say At A...
Here was a chance to build a bridge to their hearts and help them hear words of faith from someone who had…
YS Group Texting [Review]
The best thing about using a texting program is that people actually will see the message
The Shrinking Influence Of Youth Workers
Many youth workers seem to feel their ability to influence teenagers may be lessening
Atheist Scientist Claims Religion Will...
So if we can plant the seeds of doubt in our children, religion will go away in a generation, or at least…
The No. 1 Reason Teens Keeps The Faith...
The holy grail for helping youth remain religiously active as young adults has been at home all along…
Top Ten Ways Churches Drive Away First...
…My surprise was not the presence of this item. The surprise was that it was not ranked higher.
Being a Christian Doesn’t Always Look...
Churches need to ditch their religious cookie cutters
Ministering To Changing Families
Different Families, Different Ministry
5 Reasons You Struggle To Get Along With...
…getting along have not always been so easy…in my own heart several reasons causing me to struggle to get along
10 Traits Of Pastors Who Have Healthy...
The median tenure of a pastor at a church is around four years
Encouraging Students To Know And Share...
Here are 3 steps for students
How We Talk About Our Young People...
Youth are “our” brothers and sisters in Christ
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