There are ways in which there’s no difference. There’s only one gospel, not a different one for children, young people, and adults. And there’s a way the struggles of the heart are the same. These struggles play out differently depending on our stage in life, but when it comes down to it, we all want…
One of the team leaders is a friend and he rally wants us to come over… Youthworx East Africa’s Blog
http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/resources/video/Gospel-Centered-Ministry1
THE GOSPEL: KEY TO CHANGE
I read this on Walt Mueller’s blog “Learning my lines…” I asked Derek Melleby (Director of CPYU’s College Transition Initiative) to share with me some of his greatest concerns regarding youth ministry and the transition from high school to college. I asked for five. . . . which made it a difficult task for Derek…
A few years back I was trying to define a way of thinking about Fusion that brings together diversity of ideas while focusing on the essentials of gospel ministry. I suggested that we need to be based on our highest common denominator, which is the Lord Jesus rather than a lowest common denominator which waters…
I am reading “Why Johnny Can’t Preach” by T. David Gordon at the moment. In it, he quotes David Denby’s book on literacy “Great Books” in which Denby observes the kid growing up watching lots of television… “He knows that everything in the media is transient, disposable. Everything on television is just for the moment…
If the lyrics of a song can be equally applied to the crush of a 17-year-old girl as they can to Jesus, then we should seriously question it being used to point a group of believers’ collective hearts to God. In some genres of music, a great melody is enough to create a good song.…