My heart makes me think about Heaven more often than I used to.  That’s not a metaphorical heart I am speaking of.  If you have read my posts about the curse of arrhythmia, you understand. So I got thinking how wonderful eternity will be… donning white robes and singing praise to our creator.  No longer…

Long ago I heard two bits of advice on messages in youth ministry.  One is that “students don’t care what you know until they know that you care”. There is an element of truth to this.  Yet history shows us great itinerant preachers who led revivals without relationships.  This would suggest that we can communicate…

The Jesus Weekend 2015 from Dave Wright on Vimeo.

In the midst of an interview for a job as a youth director in a large church in Northern Virginia, I was explaining how the ministry I was currently leading had developed.  I shared about changing tactics from a weekly youth group to two evenings a week where one was focused on making disciples and…

Nate Morgan Locke of Christianity Explored Ministries has a great article on the “Open up the Bible” website (a site devoted to helping people read the Bible more).  In it he shares 4 great thoughts that are helpful for students to hear. 1. The Bible is about Jesus.2. God loves you, whether or not you…

From Cameron Cole, Youth Minister at Cathedral Church of the Advent Birmingham AL from the Rooted Blog. Two of my couple friends have moved to new cities in the last few months and tried out new churches with disappointing results. One couple attended a church with a conservative bent where the pastor spent the sermon…

My friend Cameron Cole, Youth Minister at The Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, AL wrote this for the Rooted Blog and it became one of the most read posts on that blog. He has graciously allowed me to post it here. In my early twenties upon moving to Birmingham, AL, I attended for…

Second half of the sermon I preached last Sunday at our Cathedral on Romans 16:25-27. Paul continues…… according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! It was God’s design to redeem us through his son. Everything about the…

This is the first part of the sermon I preached on Sunday at our Cathedral… Romans 16:25-27Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and…