Tag Archive for youth ministry
Tim Keller: Why Does Anyone Become A...
Tim Keller is one of the greatest thinkers in our world today. I loved his thoughts on Why Does Anyone Become a…
Update: To Rehome LGBT School Kids Top...
..said the group could provide false documentation to hide children’s whereabouts while they participated in gay activities
Planned Parenthood Advertises Puberty...
Aimed at minors, incorrectly markets puberty-blocking drugs as safe substances that can be used “like a stop sign” to halt puberty
To ‘Rehome’ Gay Kids Who Hate Their...
Pro-Trans Group Behind Virginia School Walkout Plans To ‘Rehome’ Gay Kids Who Hate Their Parents
Relational Ministry In A Technology...
“Isolated in a world full of connection.”
Connecting With Parents
Here are four ways our ministry intentionally connects with parents
Gays Against Groomers Speak Out…
Dogs should be groomed not kids! Transgender grooming in schools
Movie: Uncle Tom II
Unveils the Marxist strategy of creating false racial tension between Americans, with its ultimate goal of obtaining power, destroying capitalism and replacing…
Ministering To Anxious Students In An...
The promise of Heaven reminds us that our suffering is not to last forever
Book: Communicating To Middle Schoolers
A Guide to Developing and Delivering Messages That Stick
Book: What Most Parent’s Aren’t...
Four Insights About Parents That Should Radically Impact Your Ministry
Words teenagers want to hear as they go...
Mostly out of love and good intentions, we parents offer support in ways that our teenagers experience as stress because our support…
Book: The Collapse of Parenting
How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
Teaching Students About Sanctification
Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension is the inheritance given to Christians, and the Spirit is the guarantee of our place with…
Don’t Leave Youth Ministry To The...
Get to know youth with the long game in mind
Why Is Family Ministry Important?
A parent is the number one spiritual influence in a child’s life, Rooted wants to equip and encourage parents as they seek to…
Anglican Conference In Conflict Over...
What is the possible significance for the Anglican communion?
Time For The lawsuit Phase To Stop The...
The ghastly fad of genital mutilation will end when the lawsuits begin
Parent Ministry For The New School Year
Help equip you with resources to share with parents for any upcoming Fall Kickoff or Back-to-School
What if My Child Doesn’t Like Youth...
In this episode, Alice is joined by Davis Lacey, a former youth pastor who now leads a young church plant in Ellijay,…
Walt Muller: Priorities, Practices And...
Effectively leading and discipling them into a lifetime of vital Christian faith
Book: Handing Down The Faith….. (To...
How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation. by Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk
Flashback: Small Group Management
Small group management is tricky and requires a delicate balance of fun, focus, and
accountability
The Spread Of Critical Race Theory &...
In an ongoing investigative series, City Journal contributing editor Christopher F. Rufo
Flashback: Are You Ready For The New...
Are you ready to partner with parents to help shape the faith of their teenagers? What is your plan? How are you…
To Stay In Youth Ministry: 7 Compelling...
Why remain in such a low-pay, high-pressure position? Why not escape to get a “real job” in ministry, a job where you…
Book: 3 Big Questions That Change Every...
Making the Most of Your Conversations and Connections
Flashback Book: Gospel-Centered Youth...
Specifically for youth workers focused on viewing all aspects of youth ministry through a gospel-focused lens
Recruiting A Team Of Amazing Volunteers
A great team of volunteers is the lifeblood of any healthy ministry environment
Seeking To Reach Gen Z In The Current...
Are students interested in what’s being offered at church anymore?
Rescue A Generation…Book &...
Every person in youth ministry needs to know how to do it effectively and remain healthy through the process so that you…
Book: A Conservative Evangelical...
“I am convinced that the church is on the precipice of a far greater controversy that took place with the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy…
4 Ideas For Connecting With Parents
As the launch of a new school year approaches, remember to include on your calendar some strategic touchpoints with parents
If You Miss Youth, You Miss The Movement...
Youth leaders don’t just entertain teens, train them! Equip them to grow deep in their faith and go wide with the Gospel
Growing A Gospel Culture In Youth...
If we proclaim the gospel but demand perfection and excellence from one another, then the way we’re treating people contradicts the “imperfect…
How Are You Ministering To The Parents?
What are you going to do with parents? Kids become like their parents! And you better go out of your way to…
Four Reasons People Are Not Volunteering...
Many people simply feel overwhelmed as the rush of normal life returns on top of the lingering pandemic stress levels
5 Steps For Welcoming Families With...
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Programming From Street To Seat In Your...
Where do you start when putting youth services together?
A Great Volunteer Process = Great...
Part of our job as leaders is to set up our volunteers well, beginning when they first join our team
College Students Incredible Dorm Room...
One student even going as far as to hire an interior designer
Use Your Gifts To Serve And Make A...
Use Your Gifts to Serve and Make a Difference By the time you begin thinking about finishing well, you have finally become…
Helping Students Transition From...
Create some systems that help students know they belong in youth ministry. Consider a “welcome home” night
Christian Men And Their Godly Moms
Timothy was a man of the Word because he had been raised by a woman of the Word.
Book: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
It’s Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature
Let’s Make Promotion A Big Deal
One of the most exciting times in a student ministry is when everyone promotes up to the next grade
Modesty: Helping Parents Reclaim Beauty
One day I read an article about the marketing trends in the world of teenage clothing and undergarments. I began to think…
A FREE PAUL TRIPP CONFERENCE FOR PARENTS...
Update And Re-release Of A Parenting...
Paul David Tripp’s Book: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens
Post Covid Mental Health In Teenagers
Since Covid, teenagers are profoundly disappointed and scared to hope, and we can minister to them most profoundly when we teach them…
Family Meals: Big Benefits For Big Kids
Here are three tips for family meals with big kids:
Addressing Church Stereotypes With...
These statements are a microcosm of how the greater society perceives the church, as an institution that society must marginalize or eradicate
Ahhh. . . I Wonder What The Poor People...
Walt Muller…Jesus said, “Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:45)
Busy = Something Is Usually Broken. By...
Someone once told me, “If the devil can’t make you bad, he will make you busy.” Doug takes it a bit farther…
Book: Race Marxism: The Truth About...
Lindsay explains what critical race theory is, what it believes, where it comes from, how it operates, and what we can do…
Social Sanity Book Club Chapter 2:...
Who are you? Who are you on social media?
R.I.P: Unschooler, Entrepreneur, Prodigy...
“Don’t Tell Me I Can’t” by Kevin Cooper (aka Cole Summers) deserves a place in the alternative education canon
Book: Don’t Tell Me I Can’t:...
Kevin’s book is an argument for letting kids drive their own education and for letting them tackle life head-on in any arena…
Transformation Of A Transgender Teen
“Mom and Dad, I need to tell you I’m not actually a girl,” she read. “My pronouns are they/them.”
Training leaders In Your Youthministry
How Do You Train and Empower Lay Leaders in Your Youth Ministry? Part Two
Great Article From A Former ‘Trans Kid...
California Weighs Gender-Transition Bill for Youths Beyond Its Borders
4 Practical Ideas For VBS Follow-Up
Your follow-up plan needs to be intentional. It all begins with your VBS “why.” Your first step in VBS planning is establishing…
How To Recruit For A Successful Ministry
Top 6 Secrets for Successful Ministry Recruitment
What is The Church And Why Connecting...
Student pastors must be diligent in connecting students to a new local church where they are moving
Black Fatherless Homes…Grooming...
Late 1960s, 80% of black children were born into 2-parent families. Today, 80% of black children are born into fatherless homes
Bad Dad Obituary
“A dad to none” and “incapable of love.” Damaging his adult children, and leaving them broken
In The Darkness Of Death, Where Do We...
What is your only comfort in life and death? A. That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul,…
Parent Prayer Cards
Using these cards, you can pray that God will develop His own characteristics within you and your family to change the world…
The Dangers Of Gender-Affirmative Care
American doctors are unnecessarily harming children
Resources For Navigating LGBTQ Issues...
We’ve included a number of books that may also help you think through these issues before you talk with your teenagers.
Don’t Be Afraid Of The Teen Years With...
And be on the lookout for the release of an updated edition of The Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting…
Christian Hedonism, Student Ministry And...
It’s important to examine how Christian hedonism presses into the real world, especially for youth ministers and parents of teenagers
Book by Jim Burns: Finding Joy In The...
Discover Purpose and Passion in the Next Phase of Life
4 Tips To Avoid Drama
You need to know how to work through drama when you encounter it. Otherwise, you’re headed toward a vicious cycle that will…
Video: How To Raise Successful Kids...
I think this Ted talk is worth watching. I like the term “over-parenting.” I think some parents are doing that and it’s…
Helping Young People To Lament
Helping young people process anger and grief through lament
How To Lead A Kid Who’s An...
Over the years, I’ve spotted kids who are underdogs. They are outsiders. late bloomers. But somehow, they step up.
Flashback: Help Me With…...
We gathered up some of our favorite resources to help
Calendaring: The Do’s And Don’ts In...
A major conundrum for smaller youth ministries is critical mass, and it starts with the calendar. But before a small-church team should…
Revitalize Your Youth Ministry Calendar
Do you see yourself as a busy youth worker who tries to plan ahead, but ends up executing events that you haven’t…
Calendaring: Balancing Family And Youth...
Sean shared that their first year of marriage was atypical in that it was very easy
How2 Plan For Your Ministry’s Success
6 Phases of Planning a 12 to 18 month Calendar
13-Month Calendar Plan Your Kids’...
I had to plan my ministry calendar well in advance just to make sure it worked with the rhythms of family life
Book: Lead Them To Jesus
Biblical Truths and Practical Help for Youth Workers. From who is the trinity, LGBT issues to how to run your youthministry
Walt Mueller On this, The last Day Of...
I’ve become more and more convinced that being on the right side of God’s Word, will, and way will oftentimes mean that…
3-Tips To Crush Your Ministry Calendar
Have you ever had those months in student ministry where it feels like you simply can’t catch your breath?
The Catastrophe Of 12 Million Fatherless...
The decline of marriage and the rise of fatherlessness in America remain at the center of some of the biggest problems facing…
Book.Battle 4The American Mind:...
America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom….
Middle School Camp Mistakes
Over the last 10-15 years, I have chosen to run my own camps for my groups and/or decided to run missions trips…
Words Matter: Talking About Parents To...
4 Tips to bridge the gap between students and parents, because our words matter
Supreme Court Rules For Public School...
Former coach Joseph Kennedy argued that the Bremerton School District in Washington state violated his religious freedom by telling him he couldn’t…
Transgender-Identifying Youth Nearly...
More conservative-leaning states tend to have lower numbers of persons associating with the transgender identity, whereas more left-leaning states have higher percentages
Kids & BSA Watched Fully Nude...
Children younger than ten watched fully nude bikers at the Seattle Pride Parade, which was kicked off by the Boy Scouts of…
3 Ways to Reach Busy Students This...
Youth ministry is shifting and changing. It is morphing into something it has never been before, and I am not sure…
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