Ben Beswick serves as an Associate Pastor in Cape Girardeau, MO. Prior to moving to Missouri, Ben served as a youth pastor in Colorado Springs, CO for seven years. He received his Masters of Divinity from Southern Seminary in 2010. He loves reading, watching movies, and listening to music alongside his wife Jaime and daughter Amelia and his son Sawyer.
“Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.” (Hebrews 10:18) If you have professed faith in Christ, it is more than likely the case that you understand the basic gist of the…
Regardless of how “successful” your parenting strategy might appear, the fact remains that we are all utterly incapable of keeping our kids on the right path.
Youth ministry is noisy. For students, there is the noise of events, the youth band, the youth pastor teaching, and the reminders of future events that daily pop up on their social media feeds. For student ministers, there…
We live in a culture that loves to obsess over various catastrophes. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed Lionel Shriver’s article, Why Catastrophising is My Idea of a Good Time, and her suggestion that our obsession…
The reason we so often fear the catastrophes around us is because we doubt the certainty of salvation promised by grace alone through faith alone.
God is God; you are not, and this is a very good thing. This basic message, grounded in the comfort offered by Isaiah 40, was a regular refrain early on in my ministry to teenagers. Those three basic…
