Category: Youth Ministry

From Tim Keller’s new material “Gospel in Life” a DVD curriculum comes this great comparision (by way of Buzzard Blog)

A bit of background to the previous post… THE controversial trial of secular ethics classes has ”decimated” Protestant scripture classes in the 10 NSW schools where it has been introduced as an alternative for non-religious children, with the classes losing about 47 per cent of enrolled students. The figure was calculated by the Sydney Anglican…

Graham Stanton teaches youth ministry in the Diocese of Sydney and has an item on the Sydney Anglicans site that caught my eye. I don’t know the background to it fully but it seems that doing religious education in schools (something required by the government in the UK I know and perhaps in Australia as…

Phillip Jensen has some great thoughts on how we teach others to read the Bible… But what is the aim of teaching the Bible? Much of secular learning today aims at becoming qualified for acceptance in society or acquiring knowledge as an end in itself. However, neither of these is a sufficient aim for teaching…

A great reminder of a simple truth that affects our everyday relationships… The next time you’re sure someone is angry with you, perhaps it’s worth considering that you might be mistaken. Perhaps that customer or prospect or boss has better things to do than being angry with you. Each of us has a huge agenda,…

For those who appreciate old hymns set in new music (slightly updated music in some cases) “Page CXVI” has released a second project of 7 Hymns. It can be purchased for download or CD on their website. Currently, they are giving away their first Hymns Project free for a week.http://pagecxvi.bkstageshare.com/hymns/

It’s my conviction that there are several “non-truths” out there that the younger generation is buying and clinging to. One of them is the idea of a pluralism that is impossible. I was glad to read that someone in the academic world is willing to speak out to the issue that such pluralism actually makes…

I started looking at the research done on teenagers in this country, which is very, very misleading. The researchers are just trying to confirm the cultural stereotypes [originated] by G. Stanley Hall 100 years ago, who said that the teen years are necessarily a time of storm and stress. That stuck, and that’s been the…

The hook-up culture on campuses may seem more pervasive than ever, especially as media outlets, books and documentaries rush to dissect the subject, but some college women and men are saying no. Read it HERE

Adam Young, the creative mastermind behind the overnight sensation Owl City, is a shy insomniac who takes his faith as seriously as his music.