Twenty Untranslatable words – Despite our language having at least 250,000 words, there are many in other languages that we simply do not have a word for. Like… Tingo in Pascuense – “the act of taking objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.” Jayus in Indonesian –…

Ashley was the keynote speaker at Rooted and will be with us at Fusion on January 20th. His talks at Rooted are available to listen to here. Hist titles were… “Perfection as Protection”“Preaching Morality Leads to Immorality”“Love Changes Lives”

Cameron Cole, Youth Minister at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, AL, who hosted the Rooted Conference last August has set up a blog for people who are wanting to consider how the gospel of grace impacts the way we do youth ministry. Access it here: http://therootedblog.blogspot.com/

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/