Tag Archive for communication
Book About Teens: The Breakthrough Years
A New Scientific Framework for Raising Thriving Teens
How To Get Teens To Listen
‘Emerging adults’ will listen to a parent’s unsolicited advice, but the parent has to lay the groundwork
Evangelism Book by Rebecca Manley...
The World Has Changed: Our Message Must Not. It is the next-generation ‘Out of the Saltshaker’ for this new era
LANGUAGE MATTERS
Why quibble over words? After all, isn’t our ultimate goal to lead people to Jesus?
Preaching The Gospel To An Honor/Shame...
A shift is happening to a post-Christian West. We now have the ability to interact with people around the world at our…
A Dozen More Gen Z Terms You Should Know
So, what do I mean by good communication between an adult leader and a young person?
Book: Communicating To Middle Schoolers
A Guide to Developing and Delivering Messages That Stick
Communication Is Key With Your Kids
Talking with your teen about high school helps them open up about big (and little) things in their lives
Book…BLM: The Making Of A New Marxist...
These people are shown to be avowed Marxists who say they want to dismantle our way of life
The One Critical Thing Missing In Most...
How a pastor might seek to show that any particular Christian doctrine, truth or behavior is genuinely wonderful
How Can I Get My High Schooler to Open...
4 key actions we think have made this open communication possible for our family
Why No One Understands the Reformation...
In what sense are we in communion with Irenaeus, Athanasius, Augustine, Anselm and Thomas Aquinas?
How To Talk To A Middle School Student
How to communicate with your tween or teen (and why that’s so hard)
Book: Alongside (Loving Teenagers With...
Drew Hill unpacks the challenges teenagers face and how youth leaders and parents can share the gospel with them at this crucial…
Suppressing Free Speech On College...
If there is free speech, there is dissent. And if there is dissent, there is no more left
Communication is Key
My boyhood goal had always been to play on the La Palma Little League all-star team. It was now a reality. We…
Talkative Children Perform Better...
Children with “enhanced verbal skills” usually go on to achieve greater academic success than their less talkative classmates
How To Talk To Any Young Person
An Intergenerational Conversation Toolkit
Free Online 1776 Curriculum That Rejects...
African Americans, past and present, who have prospered by embracing America’s founding ideals of free enterprise, family, hard work, entrepreneurship, and faith
30 Way To Digitally Connect With...
Heads up, there are dozens of ways to pull off each of these ideas. That’s why the list below is simply starting…
Social Media Tips To Start The New Year
Here is a list of social media tips and reminders that will help you be more effective today than you were yesterday
UK: ‘Digital Conversations’...
Face-to-face conversations we have in a day has decreased by 15% in the last five years
How To Think Through Your Youth Ministry...
I hope this is a helpful method to run your lessons and teaching through.
Flashback: 17 Slang Words
A list of 17 popular slang terms and the correct way to use them
This School App Is perfect For Your...
What is the best way to communicate to parents and teens information?
5 Ways To Get Teens Talking
Talkativeness is no accident. It’s come as the result of a carefully curated environment that encourages conversation
Connecting with your child
The BEST model for life-changing conversation so you, the caring adult, can connect to the heart of your child
Book Review: On Preaching
On Preaching — Personal & Pastoral Insights for the Preparation & Practice of Preaching
How To Speak To Middle Schoolers
Concerned about translating the gospel into the (foreign, treacherous) culture of Jr High
Teens Are Over Face-To-Face...
Teens now say their favorite mode of communication is texting (35%), surpassing face-to-face communication (32%).
10 Slang Terms Teens Use That Adults...
Why Do Students Invent and Use Different Terms?
Teenagers Beginning Sorority Recruitment
The process of you evaluating people and them evaluating you is not the way you were meant to be loved or related…
How Teens Choose To Communicate via...
Detailed analysis of Instagram, Snapchat, Texting, Calling, FaceTime.
5 Ways To Connect Parents To Your Youth...
If you desire to have a Youth Ministry that has any real significant influence, you will have to do well at partnering…
How Privatized Social Media Can benefit...
Privatized social media is becoming more and more popular and the more ministers can learn how to use this, the more this…
Book: Your Family God’s Way
Helpful he offers communication advice into two crucial areas of family life: communication and conflict resolution
Christmas Time:“Circuit Jammers To...
5 communication “circuit jammers” to avoid as you spend time with your children and teens this Christmas season
Video: Real Communication With Your...
‘Real Communication with Your Teenager.’ Click here for link to video
Resolving Conflict With Your Teenager
Three Powerful Questions to Unlock the Heart of Your Teen
Helping Young People Process Las Vegas
We know this is not easy, so we’ve put together a few next-step resources you can utilize
6 Ways To Keep Their Attention
When speaking to teenagers, it can be hard to keep their attention. Their attention span can be small
Communication And Identity
Here’s a simple breakdown of these three facets of communication and how they can work best for any ministry.
These 3 Body Language Mistakes Make...
Millennials, with their built-in technology skills, may be the biggest culprits for sending off signals they don’t mean to when interacting with…
How To Have Tough Conversations Where...
Speak truth in love and graciousness, and still have those students feel like they want to come back after that conversation is…
3 Things Every Pastor Should Say During...
One of the mistakes many pastors…make is during Christmas we demonize culture rather than show people how to redeem it
Teens Tell All: Your Guide To Teen Slang...
As part of TODAY’s “Teens Tell All” series, we asked adolescents to enlighten the older crowd about all those mysterious terms they…
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“Word Of The Year”….&...
How the word “post-truth” became the “word of the year” and what it means for evangelism
High School Fakes Student Deaths To...
“They were trying to teach using scare tactics, which doesn’t teach,” he said. “It just makes you not trust the teachers and…
The #1 Secret To Effective Teaching
Podcast: Terry Linhart with Dave Rahn
5 Ways to Connect with Today’s Young...
Who Can’t Pry Their Eyes from Their Mobile Devices!
52 Ways To Connect With Your Smartphone...
Youtube interview: Jonathan McKee offers just the help you need to have meaningful interaction with your Smartphone Obsessed kids
How Hard Is It To Keep Kindergartners...
Now it was time for me to tune in to them and listen to some very excited children tell me stories about…
Values: Change The Way We Talk To...
Nowadays, I find myself encouraging my teenagers not to think about their daily time with God as something that they do for…
New Study Suggests Teens Love Chatbots?
Together, the top four messaging platforms — Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, and Viber — have more registered users
Overusing Social Media As An Adolescent...
Predominant use of social media may limit the opportunity to practice in-person conversations that are crucial for adolescents, particularly boys
Yelling Dads Make Teenage Behavior Worse
How fathers interact with their children when disciplining them, has links to aggressive and delinquent behavior in later life.
Up Your’s…..Speaking Game
Remember these helpful tips, and don’t forget to….
I Promise. They ARE Listening
We can never fully know the way the Lord is working on their hearts. In our eyes it seems like they are…
“A Picture Says A Thousand Words..”
5 Apps For Creating Awesome Youth Ministry Graphics
Ground Rules for Counseling Students
Ministry is messy because people are broken, here are our ground rules when it comes to counseling students
Why That Emoji Grin You Sent Might Show...
Differences in how an emoji displays on one device versus another can make things even worse
Flashback: How Many Minutes Will Kids...
Why talk for 25 minutes when you can say it in 5?
5 Ways To Effectively Use Movies As...
Film is a powerful medium, and movies are the most ubiquitous works of art in our culture
“4 Goals in Dealing with Parents”
Sometimes I feel parents can be the hardest..here are 4 goals I try to have with with a parents
How To Utilize Blab For Ministry
Have you started using Blab yet? Do you know what Blab is?
5 Essential Moves To Make Your Messages...
How you make your moves will determine whether or not your students will listen to and learn from what you say
Are Teens Losing Conversational Skills...
MIT Professor in the Social Studies of Science and Technology…teens are rapidly losing basic skills in conversation
Phantom Community: What’s the Power of...
“Someday, someday soon, but certainly not now, I’d like to learn to have a conversation.”
Book: “Storify: Speaking To...
Solid resource, especially for someone who hasn’t had a ton of instruction on speaking/preaching to teenagers
Crafting Memorable Messages
Here are a few sites that help me shape messages
Teaching Hard Truths In Middle School
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears…
4 Ways To Move Middle School Students
There is virtually nothing static about a middle school student. There shouldn’t be anything static about your talk
Making Content Fit in Youth Ministry
Contextualization of content is the process that we go through in order to adapt content to…
Flashback: Sermon Preparation Process
Having a method or template for your sermon preparation can be really helpful and time-saving
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Three Themes To Rotate Your Lessons...
Youth Ministry 101: Let’s Talk About What We Should Talk About
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