Partnering with parents is a critical piece of youth ministry, but it can often be incredibly challenging. Either we just don’t know how, or we feel like who are we to speak with any real authority to parents?…
I think messed up. I think I failed. I don’t know what I am doing. These are some thoughts that have frequently come up throughout my time in youth ministry. Times when I feel that I’m unprepared, or…
Partnering with parents is a critical piece of youth ministry, but it can often be incredibly challenging. Either we just don’t know how, or we feel like who are we to speak with any real authority to parents?…
I use social media in my ministry, and I think you should too. I know, I know. Screens distort the gospel. Social media causes students to hide from reality. Likes on selfies are more important than anything else….
Apologetics in a student ministry context tends to locate itself between two ineffective ends of a spectrum. The first approach emphasizes a relational model, which rarely speaks authoritatively and hardly claims any truth. This tends to produce meandering…
What lies at the heart of longing to see faith in Christ passed on from one generation to the next? I have two compelling reasons to busy myself with figuring out the answer to this question. First, I…
This is the fourth article in our series, “Five Apologetics Every Student Needs.” The dictionary definition of ‘apologetics’ is: “systematic argumentative discourse in defense (as in of a doctrine).” In the current world culture of skepticism and relativism,…
In the fall of 2015, I sat in a chair at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for a weekend class on spiritual disciplines. Everything was good and fine until the professor, Dr. Whitney, started preaching (not just teaching) to…
This is the second article in a two-part series. Read the first article here. As I shared in the first part of this series, Rick (one of my students) got into some bad legal trouble last year. In…
