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Partnering With Parents In Youth...
Partnering with parents in youth ministry can be a challenge
My New Goal For 2022
My New Goal For 2022
by Heather Molendyk
The road ahead of me was long.
If traffic was kind, it would be a 9-hour day….
VA. Democrats Protect PornoGraphic...
..to keep sexually explicit materials in public schools but also to kill a bill that would require school boards to notify parents…
Soros Big City Prosecutors Destroying...
More recently, college student, Brianna Kupfer, was stabbed to death in broad daylight in the furniture store where she worked.
Most recently LA….
Book: A Student’s Guide To...
Justification is part of the grand story of God’s love and salvation that is unfolded in the Bible
Belong: Quotes From ‘A Student’s...
Even in our greatest losses, failures, and deepest griefs we can be assured that we belong to God in love
Messages Your Freshmen Need To Hear This...
It’s like, you’re having to reconcile—the person you were before the pandemic, the person..during lockdown, and you’re becoming now
Walt Mueller And Instagram…
Effective marketing promises remedies to our insecurities
How To Read A Kid’s Mind
When you know how they think—they will hear what you say and know what to do.
Germany Lockdown Saw Up To 3x Increase...
Der Spiegel notes that reports from Japan, Switzerland and the United States have all shown the number of suicides amongst women and young…
Book…Being Young: A Biblical Theology...
For thousands of years, God has used young people to help his kingdom grow. He has used youth to be kings and…
THE 2022 YOUTH PASTOR COMPENSATION...
The National Youth Pastor Compensation Survey has had well over 5,000 respondents over its lifetime.
Tim Tebow Biblical Statement On Human...
“God says they’re created in His image; trafficking says they’re an object for my pleasure,”
To The Youth Minister Who Feels They ...
But here’s the thing I have to remember: I’m not them, and it’s not a competition.
Gen Z Wants To Talk About Faith
Barna study shows Christians age 13 to 18 are skeptical of evangelism, but they’re having deep and personal peer-to-peer conversations.
Flashback: The Nuclear Family Was A...
Is it time to figure out better ways to live together?
My Letter To Parents As We Start 2022...
Josh Griffin: Here is my letter to parents…
Keep Momentum In Youthmin Going In The...
So here’s my question, what can we do at the start of 2022 to keep our ministry momentum going? Here are a few…
Preparing Christian Children For The...
The mainstream prevalence of transgenderism seems to have risen and emerged far faster than most people would expect. Practices, norms, and behaviors…
A Biblical Response To Homosexuality (4...
Sean McDowell examines whether or not homosexuality is a gospel issue, whether or not homosexuality is…
Book: Seducing Our Daughters’ To...
The Book “Irreversible Damage” Seducing Our Daughters’ the impact transgenderism is having on girls
Genesis 1-3 Reflections
Reading through Genesis 1-3 I found that God is always pursuing us
Three Unexpected New Year’s...
I’m not a big New Year’s resolution type of guy. The truth is, I’ve never even tried to make most youth ministry resolutions
Is the West Becoming Pagan Again?
what is ending is not the Christian faith, with its rites and dogmas, but only Christian culture — the way Christian societies…
Lutheran Church Hosts Drag Queen Sunday...
Preaching in drag is a way for seminarian Aaron Musser “to reflect on a joy that overflows so abundantly, it can’t help…
Nicholas Sandmann Reaches Settlement...
The media had lambasted the Covington Catholic High School student from Kentucky, now 19, over a confrontation at the 2019 March for…
How Smartphones Stifle Childhood...
Smartphone seems more like a drug draining the creativity out of the next generation
Book: The Jesus I Wish I Knew In High...
What it’s like to be perfectly loved and accepted, have hope for the future, and experience grace and mercy when you mess up.
Billie Eilish: ‘Porn Is A Disgrace,’...
I started watching porn at 11.” “I think it really destroyed my brain and I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed…
Rescuing My Daughter From Her...
Gender dysphoria—the incongruence between the mind and the body—moves stealthily and quickly to invade girls and boys alike
Getting Your Child Out Of The Gender...
Many parents today find their families under assault by an insidious predator…The Gender Cult
Book: Gender Dysphoria A Therapeutic...
A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Ensnaring Your Kids
Fighting Back Against Woke Ideologies In Children’s Books
Belong: 3 Big Questions That Change...
Book by Kara Powell & Brad M. Griffin. Making the Most of your Conversations and Connections
Belong: Faith Questions Teens Are...
The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast With Kara Powell and Brad Griffin
Belong: What Works For Student Ministry...
Kara Powells advice to leaders leading young leaders
WHERE WILL OUR KIDS FIND IDENTITY?
Teenagers are looking for answers: Am I worthwhile? What makes me worthwhile? How am I unique from others? Are those uniqueness’ good…
Course: Parenting In A Tech World
This course gives parents and caregivers strategies and insights to parent confidently in a technology-dependent world
25 Christmas Jokes You Can Tell Kids
All it takes is one funny joke to bring down the wall a child may have put up
Lock-In…Yes Or No?
All-Nighters take me out for days. Sore muscles, foggy brain, exhausted body. Is it worth it?
Transgender Industry Is Recklessly...
The growing transgenderization of American children is unscientific, unsupervised, and out of control
Book: Christianity And Wokeness
How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel – and the Way to Stop It
The Important Of Intergenerational...
We’ve got a lot of work to do to train all pastors to intentionally celebrate intergenerational philosophy in their churches
Belong: Academic Performance And Anxiety
How the Gospel brings peace, freedom and comfort
College Students Avoid ‘My Body,...
Pro-choice college students avoid ‘my body, my choice’ arguments for vaccine mandates
Covid Chaos Or Catalyst?
One blessing amid the chaos was the freedom from expectations of how things
Sharing Nudes Doubled Among Pre-Teens In...
Twice as many children between the ages of 9 and 12 reported sending nudes or other Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (SG-CSAM)…
Sex Conversations Through The Phases
Is there any conversation that ranks higher on the awkward-o-meter than the sex talk with your kids?
The Nicene Creed Illustrated And...
A stunning and articulate book bringing ancient words into the hands of children
Supporting Your Students Mental Health
Even before the pandemic, we were seeing a worrying rise in mental health issues in adolescents
Dads Help Curb Violence At Louisiana...
23 Fights in 3 days. When an SOS went up at a troubled high school, who answered the call? A bunch of…
Prey: Immigration, Islam, And Erosion Of...
Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe’s cities? No one in a position…
High School’s Halftime Show Is A...
A Vermont high school homecoming football game turned into a “drag ball” runway at halftime
A Survey Of Church History….Short...
Seventy-three-lecture series covering theology, apologetics, notable church fathers
Belong: Helping Our Children Love The...
Podcast: (Book A Place to Belong) Learning to Love the Local Church. How the church she belonged to in college became home
Should Virginia Parents Have A Say In...
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe said parents should not tell schools what to teach
Youth Sports: Trans “Women”...
The study, in particular, has to do with measuring the strength of transgender “women” over actual women
Creating Family Ministry Opportunities
It can not be stated enough how important the family is to the spiritual growth of our students
New Sex Ed From Explicit Images To...
Designed to destroy children’s innocence and undermine their attachment to the traditional, Judeo-Christian understanding of sex and marriage
School Board Association Use ...
School Boards Association suggests they’re ‘domestic terrorists’
Teenagers Need The Church In Person
As tempting as it may be to stay at home on Sunday mornings, I hope you’ll give your teenagers the gift of…
Tools To Equip Parents In Combating ...
what parents can do to combat what the group sees as radical indoctrination of the next generation
Book: Emily Ratajkowski How She Was...
Her parents fixated on her beauty and said ‘it seemed important to them both … that their daughter be perceived as beautiful’
Aborted Fetus Tissue Used In The Pfizer...
Pfizer whistleblower says she doesn’t trust the vaccine for children
Reflection On Leading In Youth Ministry
Early on in ministry I feel like I was driven and goal oriented but was chasing the wrong goals. While I don’t…
Busyness Does Not Equal Godliness
As leaders, it’s often easy to find ourselves stretched thin between leading our kids, trying to…
Book: Teaching Theology To Kids Is Fun
Not only can this book be used for children’s ministry you can also be used in student ministry
Awesome Children’s Ministry Book: Lead...
Teaching Covenant Theology to covenant children ages 4 to 8.
By Heather Molendyk
A Christian Theology Of Chaplaincy
Focusing on understanding what chaplaincy is and how it is exercised in different contexts
The Work Of The Chaplain
An ideal starting point for all, including seminarians, who are exploring a call to chaplaincy ministry
curriculum that makes kids pray to Aztec...
“The affirmation as presented amounts to a religious activity that I think has no place in public schools,”
Recruiting And Training Volunteers...
Podcast:Recruiting and training volunteers has always been a challenging proposition for ministry leaders.
Dad Beats Up YouthPastor Accused Of...
Accused of inappropriately touching a boy waiting for a school bus
Handling Criticism In Ministry...
Podcast: Criticism is something every leader faces, and so every leader needs to know how to walk through it.
Are You Proactive Or Reactive With...
It’s also really interesting for how many leaders have not reached out to know parents of their students
3 Things Every Dad Worries About
The truth is, worry is a great way to ruin one’s day, week, month, or even year. It’s a counterfeit to peace.
The Pressure Youth Pastors Face in the...
Have you ever felt the pressure of being a youth pastor? Every single day, right? As we head into the fall season,…
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*.
Family Meals Are More Frequent, Last...
Family meals now last 15 minutes longer in the typical American household than they did before the pandemic began
Young People’s Trust In Religious...
…but trust in relationships with religious people is still extremely high
Study: Students Desires For Emotional...
Study: Connection between students’ ‘self-reported cognitive distortions and their endorsement of trigger warnings’
Athletes Lead Crowd In Prayer After...
Putnam County Schools administrators telling their staff last week that they could not lead students in prayer.
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
Kids Book: The Island Of Free Ice Cream
Jack Posobiec take a deep dive into the idea of Capitalism Vs Communism with the story of “The Island of Free Ice Cream”
Kids Need Boundaries And Hope To Succeed...
Parents need to clearly, positively and assertively communicate boundaries to children
Ten Discipline Solutions For Single...
Following are some typical questions many single parents have asked me regarding discipline situations
5 Ways To Empower Your Daughter To Deal...
Retributive violence is like that cupcake sitting in the break room at work. It’s great initially, but it doesn’t satisfy
4 Things You Must Do After Yelling At...
When we yell, our kids may feel like we don’t understand them or that we’re being unfair, or they might feel guilty
3 Bad Lessons We’re Teaching Daughters...
Most dads I know have joked about cleaning their guns when their daughters bring home their first boyfriends
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