Steve Wood posted this on his blog Treading Grain Alyssa, one of the young women in our high school youth group, sent me this list she’d compiled of “reasons not to sin.” I was quite impressed by her list and by her thoughtfulness – I know most certianly that my mind was not on this…

The Essential 100 for youth ministry… http://www.ministryplanet.net/sites/e100/youthministry

Hat tip to Todd Simonis for pointing this one out…

“Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or tract, or friend above the Word. Cursed be that book, or tract, or human counsel, which creeps in between us and the Bible, and hides the Bible from our eyes!” ~ J.C. Ryle Practical Religion, p. 137

Some messages from a conference I had wanted to attend in May… Next 2009

I preached today in Bluffton (Church of the Cross Buckwalter Campus) and then had lunch afterwards with Josh and Cali Cooke who are the new part time youth pastors for the church. Josh runs a coffee shop near the church and Cali runs a music therapy studio next door to it. Great folks! Anyway, I…

How many mission trips have you led or been on where you did not attend a local worship service with the people you were serving? We tend to figure that we are worshipping every night with our students, so we don’t need to go find a church. Yet if you have gone to serve the…

Some time ago, I began noticing a growing passion in me (which is actually be a restored passion because it has been there before) to proclaim the gospel through preaching, teaching, speaking, etc. It has drawn me to reading books on preaching and articles on gospel centered ministry. I read at one point and author’s…

by T.David Gordon What I found fascinating in this short book on the problem of modern preaching is it’s relevance to what we do in youth ministry when we stand before a group and give a talk. Gordon believes that modern preaching (generally speaking) has failed because preachers today cannot read texts carefully, cannot write…

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