A conference I attended a few years ago that is worth the time and money!!! It’s not about youth ministry but about good gospel proclamation and Bible teaching. Many pastors and Bible teachers hunger to handle the Old Testament with more confidence—in the same way that New Testament writers handle it, in a way that…

Guess what? Nobody has the corner on the youth ministry market. There’s no one right way to bring kids closer to Jesus: not small groups, not candles and contemplation, not big-group outreaches, not student-led cell groups, not intense Bible study, not service projects. As our youth ministry experience is broadened by space and time, we…

Still more… Maybe one of the reasons we in youth ministry don’t attribute more value to systematic theology is that we aren’t systematic theologians, and we don’t know much about it. We’re like monkeys in the cockpit throwing out dials and knobs because they aren’t edible. The problem is those gauges and switches of systematic…

In case you still have not been persuaded to read the article, here’s more… One youth worker expressed his appreciation for The Emerging Church by explaining to me, “What appealed to me about that book is that I grew up in a conservative church where people were closed-minded, hypocritical and very judgmental, and I think…

Duffy Robbins raises some good questions about adolescence in youth ministry. Obsessed with cool. Trendy. Impulsive. Self-focused. Caught up in the moment. Probably sounds like a description of some of the kids in your youth group.Actually, um…well…this is not an article about youth culture or the world of today’s teenagers. This is an article about…

Found a site dedicated to small youth groups. Most people don’t realize that the average youth group in America falls into this category. Might have some useful stuff… http://www.smallyouthgroup.com/

I know it’s uncouth to say, “I told you so,” but in this case I did.Three years ago, in my book Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know — And Doesn’t, I described the United States as a nation of religious illiterates. Though Americans are deeply religious, I argued, they know very little about…

I mentioned recently at our Fusion meeting about a challenge that Andy Morgan mentioned whilst teaching our apprentices. It was one of two actually and I got him to write them down for you… In an attempt to channel the competitive nature of teens I devised two challenges which I have used with various youth…

Not all that long ago I heard a priest declare in his sermon that the concept of inerrancy was relatively new, dating back to the time of the Scopes Monkey Trial. I approached him afterward and told him I thought that was a strange assertion because I had read the word used in theological writing…