Tag Archive for youth ministry
Flashback: Where Kids Actually Adopt...
Our kids glean more from our conversations than they do from our rules
How To Think Through Your Youth Ministry...
I hope this is a helpful method to run your lessons and teaching through.
Episode: Lonely Teens During The...
Alice offers gospel comfort and creative practical guidance we can give our teenagers when they find themselves uninvite
How To Make The Most Of NYWC 2019
As you hang out in downtown Tampa this weekend we want to make sure that your soul and mind are ministered to…
What Phones Do To Teen Brains
And What Teens Wanted To Know About That
Questions Youth Leaders And Parent...
Sin has tainted..the hearts of humanity. Yet culture, has unequivocally declared a belief in the inherent goodness of all people
3 Steps To Help Teenagers Serve Your...
If the youth of the church are indwelt by God the Spirit, then they are equal recipients of God’s grace and salvation,…
How Adult Gen Zers Tend To Understand...
10 Insights help explain how adult Gen Zers tend to understand the world
Preaching On Controversial Topics?
Preaching on Controversial Topics Half of Pastors Worry They’ll Offend Someone if They Preach on Controversial Topics
UK: What Churches Teach & What...
See how they fared against each other. The results might surprise you
Top 5 Youth Ministry Books From The...
Each of these books has helped me think through key issues related to church ministry and today’s culture
Many Millennials Have Positive Feelings...
Over 100 million people were starved, shot, and slaughtered by socialist governments
Parents, Don’t Fear The Teenage Years
Don’t the fear the teenage years. And don’t take them for granted either. They, like life itself, are a vapor…
Starting A Campus Ministry
One of the immediate action steps he prompts is for churches to be present in the life of their local schools, with…
West’s ‘Follow God’...
“It took me 42 years to realize that my dad was my best friend.”
Culture: Overreaction Or Interaction?
Overreaction or Interaction? Flashback Post…
“I don’t know why you spend any time looking at pop culture. All you need…
The Discipline Of Decreasing
The Discipline Of Decreasing by George Lockhart
I must decrease, He must increase. John 3:30
God is the only One anyone should be completely…
Reevaluating A Gospel Centered Ministry
Discipleship takes place through relationships where youth leaders are intentionally shepherding students into greater maturity
Religious Children Are More Generous
We examined how religious upbringing shaped children from adolescence into young adulthood
Conservatives Have Happier Families,...
Find more meaning in life, happier overall, donate far more money, time to the needy than liberal do.
5 Reasons I’m Staying In Youth...
One of the easiest ways to offend a youth minister is to ask when he’s going to become a “real pastor
Book: A Biblical Theology Of Youth...
Excellent book … those of us who think theologically about youth ministry, and the role of youth pastor, have been waiting for.
West’s Conversion Could Be A Cultural...
A Christianity that bears no resemblance to the vague spiritualism of Moral Therapeutic Deism that is often associated with celebrity conversions
Character And Virtue Development In...
The development of character and virtue often feels like a lost art form
Don’t Start A College-age Ministry...
We must start with young people, not programs.
Lawmakers To Ban Child Gender Transition...
Children should be protected from “medical experimentation based on wishful social theory.”
Best Business Practices You Need In...
We learned to integrate several of the best business practices into our family
A Vision For Multiplying Your New...
Jesus had a big vision and started with the end in mind. Here are a few of God’s “vision statements
Start Up: 4 People You Need To Meet On...
These are valuable people on your campus that can help you organize and benefit the ministry
Kanye West: From ‘I Am A God’ To ...
Rather than seeing Kanye as a fraud, can we choose to see him as the tax collector? …Please, please pray for me
Here’s What Lecrae Has 2 Say About...
“Often people can’t imagine people from the hip-hop community finding Christ,”
Puberty Blocker Drugs Linked 2 Thousands...
Drugs used as puberty blockers in youth linked to thousands of adult deaths, FDA shows
This School App Is perfect For Your...
What is the best way to communicate to parents and teens information?
Childhood Trauma
Researchers learned that Adverse Childhood Experiences can have negative lasting effects on health and well-being
How To Create A Professional Photo Booth
The Photobooth that we created will be unmanned and sit out in the lobby the 4th Tuesday of each month
Anxiety The YouthPastors Epidemic
How can we help the 20% in our youth ministries who are silently dying?
Help! My Teen Is Questioning The Faith
Here are a few ways we can build homes that allow our children to wrestle with questions of faith
Beware The Idol Of Parenting Success
When we worship parenting success, our children become our trophies
Beto O’Rourke’s Plan To Destroy...
The government…. signaled that Christian schools may soon be treated like racists for …view of marriage
‘Weed Moms’ Are The New &...
Marijuana-using moms are stepping out of the shadows and proudly extolling the virtues of cannabis
10% Of Christian Twentysomethings Have...
There are four kinds of twentysomething “exiles” making their way in our current day and age
Suicide Prevention
Insights and resources for parents and youth workers
250,000 Students In US Participate In...
As part of a faith-filled initiative by fellowship of Christian athletes to pray, read their Bibles, and “open up their life to Christ
UK: Mandatory “Self-Touching” Class...
This sexualisation of our children is just totally inappropriate. They are calling it self-touching and they won’t use the term masturbation
Relational Youth Ministry
Often times adult volunteers want to be liked by students, so they cross the line between friend and mentor
Parenting Middle School Kids
8 Conversations to have with your new middle school student
3 Cultural Changes As A Youth Worker
“Do you think you’ll ever change the night of youth group? My son/daughter is just too busy and they’re missing out.”
Parents: 5 Reasons To Keep Your Students...
Why is youth group important?
Dealing With Criticism
If you’re a youth worker you can’t escape it, you will be criticized
What Real Forgiveness Looks Like
Youth Ministries Working Together
A Kingdom-minded ministry is about reaching kids for Christ and plugging them into the local church…not your local church
Engaging Kids About Pop-Culture
Dare I say most, of the kids we work with are not coming to church with a deep desire for God’s Word
Why Christians Reject Kanye’s ‘Jesus...
Kanye West may have come to Jesus — but some Christians aren’t buying the born-again “Yeezus.”
Serious Bible Study Is for Teens, Too&...
For too long I saw daily Bible reading and Bible study as part of some contract with God
Video: Types Of Parents In The School...
Every parent can probably relate to this video. It’s just a fun way of looking at the types of parents in the…
The Boy Who Stood At The Flagpole...
“God, as people drive by, let them wonder, let their hearts be pricked.”
The Youth Pastor Compensation Survey...
One way you can help out your brothers and sisters is by sharing this survey to your network and on other social…
The Terrifying Side Of Kids Addicted To...
Nature Valley asked them (three generations) one simple question, “What did you like to do for fun as a kid?”
Social Media—Your Secret Weapon In...
Would you believe that social media could be one of the handiest tools you have in your youth leader tool belt?
Better Planning For A Better Fall
Here are a few enhancements that you can make to your planning that will help your group to do better in the…
Flashback: Christianity On Campus A Time...
How can students to reach their campus for Christ and change the culture if they can’t articulate their own convictions?
Building Confidence In Kids
Most parents are parenting their children based off of their owninsecurities. Not what’s best for their child’s actual future.
How Homeschoolers Are Saving Western...
The Rise of the Bible-Teaching, Plato-Loving…
Parents Are Irate Over Forced Elementary...
In 4th grade, students learn gender is “self-defined,” and, in grade 5, they learn “there are many gender identities” and are introduced…
Kids….“I Hope You Suffer”
Suffering is the fertile ground for great growth in character, wisdom, and virtue. Suffering grows our dependence on God while undermining our…
4 Ways To Help Kids Deal With Discomfort
Life Skills that Build Emotional Resilience
4 Ways To Keep Your Youth Pastor For The...
Being a youth pastor at one church for the entirety of my ministry career is one of the greatest blessings of my…
Gun Used In Argument B/W Pastor &...
A “minor conflict” between the wives of a pastor and youth pastor at a West Virginia church resulted in gunfire, leading to…
How To Improve Your Youth Ministry...
7 simple ideas youth leaders from across the nation have shared with me that will help improve your youth ministry program
Engaging Kids About Pop-Culture
A song on the top of the charts, a new Netflix show everyone is binging, a new trend everyone…
Marriage Is for Mission
But ministry that is pursued by a married couple requires unity. Nothing derails the mission quite like disunity
Justin Bieber Leads Worship At Church...
Having trust in Jesus at your worst times is the absolute hardest. But he is faithful to complete what he started
Justin Bieber Opens Up About Fame And...
I started doing pretty heavy drugs at 19 and abused all of my relationships
Teen’s Hilarious Costume Pranks On...
Why, We get our haircuts together and ride to church and practices together, he is my little brother and best friend
Churches Could Win Back Teens Like Me If...
Many Christian denominations are too deeply rooted in tradition. We find it a turnoff
Flashback: Children ‘Immersed in a...
“Then Kyle replied, ‘Shut up, mom. You don’t know what you’re talking about.’ … Kyle is 10 years old.”
Flashback: The Problem With American...
…….“Expect kids to behave like adults, but you should not give them the authority of an adult.”
8 Steps to Planning a Good Parent...
OK, we get it, we are supposed to connect, engage and release parents to be the primary disciplers of their teenagers
Why I Wish We Hadn’t Lived Together...
We started our “serious” relationship with a lack of commitment
Two Items To Send With Every New College...
Sending off a college student for the first time can spark strong—and competing—feelings
When A Student Comes Out To You
More students want to meet and talk about same-sex attraction. We have moved from “my friend” is struggling with this, to “I”…
Reflect On Joshua Harris’s...
It would give us great joy to see our friend return to the gospel he proclaimed, the Bible he affirmed, and the…
“Navigating LGBTQ Issues”
…they bring Gospel-centered sense to the head-spinning conversations and debates regarding sexuality and gender
More Than 20% Of Millennials Claim To...
Strong social relationships support mental health, and that..reduced stress and less cardiovascular activation
Why young people abandoned the faith
More and more parents and churches are recognizing that students are not prepared for the challenges that college often brings
Connecting With Parents During The...
When was the last time you went out of your way to meet with a parent, when their teen wasn’t in any…
Youth Ministry Summer Reading List
As a result of years of research and writing, there are so many great books available that allow us to be mentored…
Longevity In YTH Ministry
This is the latest article in the AG News on ythology and…thoughts on longevity in YTH ministry
How To Help Your Former Teens Grow After...
The first two years of their post-high school life has so much change; it can knock them off their spiritual journey
How Faith Heritage Relates To Faith...
The idea of beliefs that transcend generations is beautiful, but is it also beneficial?
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