Category: Youth Ministry

Rob Sturdy posted this excellent quote on his blog. … Our worship is poor because our knowledge of God is poor, and our knowledge of God is poor because our preaching is poor. But when the Word of God is expounded in its fullness, and the congregation begin to glimpse the glory of the living…

Seth Godin makes a good point about criticism that I think really needs to connect to our thinking about youth ministry… for example… too many in youth ministry cave to the idea that kids have an attention span of about 10 minutes. Criticism of your idea is usually based on assumptions about the world as…

“Deech” Kirk has made an important point here in suggesting that the reason kids drop out of youth groups is not the drivers license. In consulting with churches through Youth Ministry Architects and CYMT, I hear over and over again about how students become less active or drop out of youth ministry around the age…

This stuff is really making the rounds… A major study of religion in youth found that many young people are “almost Christian” – they believe in God, but they don’t believe Christian doctrines. That has caused several youth ministries to move from fun and games at youth groups to more intense Bible studies. They also…

We rightly concern ourselves with teaching the Bible and nurturing a solid faith in the lives of the students we work with. Sometimes I wonder if we need to be showing students how the faith of people in past generations influenced what thet accomplished in life. Then I noticed this short clip on a blog…

David Murray, a seminary professor up north, is blogging a series of articles on preaching that relate to speaking/teaching to our youth groups. He encourages folks to get so into what they are communicating that they use no notes. That may be easy for you already but in case it is not, he offers some…

We read about Christ-less Christianity, Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, pluralism, universalism, and lots of other notions common today that are not the gospel and it begs the question why. How can we tell the difference between authentic biblical Christianity that has been agreed by Christians throughout history and these other notions that are merely a western…

The ground zero mosque is such a great opportunity to address issues of the day and discuss them with students! Theologian and pastor Doug Wilson exposes the issues for what they are rather than what people seems to be arguing. In the end, he concludes… I said that the Muslims know what they are doing.…

Growing up the saying was “don’t talk religion or politics”. It was the way to avoid arguments and be nice friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc. Politics and religion have long had a strange relationship. Some don’t like to mix them and others find their one dictating the other. Now I think we have reached a point…

An excellent op ed in the Wall Street Journal addressed “The perils of ‘wannabe cool’ Christianity. Kinda reminded me of two things. First, what Paul did not mean in 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. If he had meant that we are meant to imitate the culture around us, then I need to go buy a pair of…