Each month we compile a Top Ten list for youth workers. This list represents ten articles from various sources that we believe will encourage you in your ministry to students and their families. Some give explicit instruction on…
My prayer is that we are able to step outside of the noise, and see this uncertain moment as an an opportunity to renew our vision of covenant fidelity to God while inviting our students into that hope.
The sooner we admit our vulnerability to ourselves, to our friends, and to our children, the sooner we can stop holding ourselves and our kids hostage to unattainable ideals, and lead them instead into the rest and freedom of life with Christ.
In Jesus, we have been sealed by the Holy Spirit into the love of God poured out to us through Christ (Rom. 5:5). Jesus is our sustaining hope, and the only hope we have to offer teenagers in this present time of suffering.
For God’s glory and for your good, I exhort you – don’t get so caught up in doing things for Jesus that you neglect your first calling of simply being with Jesus.
The more I’ve studied, the more I’ve realized unusual Bible stories aren’t weird, I just don’t understand the point yet. And hidden in the weirdness is normally very good news.
The recognition of my lack of control over my family and the world they live in frees me to give the problem of their security over to the Lord himself.
While we may repeatedly tell our students that their identity is found first and foremost in Christ, perhaps right now they are in a better place to listen and believe.
Increased skepticism in our culture and a growing buzz among Christians about the relationship between science and faith has led many of us to give more thoughtful focus to these questions in our ministries.
