We all love a good “up and coming” story. I can remember watching Steph Curry dominate the 2008 NCAA Tournament. As a 2nd year college student, Curry lead the 10th seeded Davidson to victories over both #2 Georgetown…
There comes a point as a student pastor when you realize that no matter how loudly and clearly you preach the gospel, the message your students hear at home is always heard more loudly and more clearly. As…
John 21:15-19 Being a youth minister seems like a lot of work. In fact, it is. I’ve heard people compare it to running your own little church with little people. Through my time as a youth minister, I…
When it comes to partnering with parents in the discipleship of students…where do I even start? This question has characterized much of my experience in student ministry. Despite being zealous to partner with parents in ministry for some…
When it comes to ministry, especially ministry to youth, there seems to be a constant battle against the powers of hell over the souls of our students. To put it another way, seeing students come in and…
Perhaps the most neglected area of youth work is ministry to fathers.
We’ve scoured youth ministry blogs and news sites to find the most helpful articles from March that will strengthen and encourage your ministry to students. Most (but not all) of these articles come from a Christian perspective and…
Several years ago, I was challenged by this powerful sentence from Dan Allender’s book Leading with a Limp: ”A good leader will, in time, disappoint everyone.” That simple, yet poignant sentence changed me. For years as a youth pastor,…
What if we really believed Jesus when he said, “It is finished”? What if we actually lived out of the reality that we have been justified, and we no longer have to justify ourselves? This is completely counter-cultural….
