This article is part of a series that looks at how we address difficult or confusing pieces of scripture with young people. Read the last articles in the series here. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined…
Dear Fellow Youth Worker, Let your delight show. I mean it. Be unabashedly, unreservedly excited about your students at every moment. Don’t hide your love. Don’t hold it back. Don’t keep it within the bounds of what is…
One night at the beginning of the summer, my college-bound daughter was home without plans. Her friends were either out of town or working. She was bored. Now I could think of several things she could use the time for – you know,…
Rethinking God’s nature is a dangerous, but exciting thing. What if we’ve misunderstood what it means for God to be sovereign and omniscient? This is a provocative question, and one that is increasingly being asked among theology professors…
Our nation is reeling in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of two African American men at the hands of police, and subsequent sniper attacks by black men that killed at least eight white police officers in a…
Dear Parent, Right off the bat let me confess I am not a parent, nor do I profess to have any idea what it feels like to be one. However, in my role as a youth worker I…
I called my mother after the week of violence in Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas and said to her, “So this is what it was like to live in the 1960’s, except our weapons today are even…
In this series, “Secular Wisdom from the Movies,” we hope to offer student leaders a resource – whether for summer programming or just regular teaching. So often we overlook biblical insight from the secular world. The movies in…
In this series, “Secular Wisdom from the Movies,” we hope to offer student leaders a resource – whether for summer programming or just regular teaching. So often we overlook biblical insight from the secular world. The movies in…
