When my sister was 5 years old, she went through a stage where she refused to eat much else besides Chicken McNuggets. When we climbed into the car, she’d ask/cry/demand that we stop by McDonald’s. This presented my…
6 Ways to Increase Your Knowledge of Youth Culture In Part 1 of this series, I stressed the importance of engaging with youth culture as we seek to translate biblical truth and communicate that truth effectively to the…
3 Steps to Effectively Engage Youth Culture I view my role as a youth pastor as being a translator. My job is to take biblical truth and communicate that truth effectively to the youth with whom I work in…
What I Learned from an NA Meeting Last week, I attended a Narcotics Anonymous meeting as a part of an Addictions class I am taking for my counseling degree. On my way there the skies had opened up with…
The book of Esther resonates with our experiences. The spiritual vista of Esther feels very familiar to our own lives, yet it is into this context that God is powerfully demonstrated.
I just returned from having a small group with four really sharp senior girls, and a story one of them shared made me wonder: Are we listening for what questions our kids are really asking, or do we…
Unless the Sunday school lesson we’re giving is particularly boring, the youth we work with probably aren’t thinking much about eternity in any concrete way. In truth, we probably don’t give eternity much concrete thought either. But I’ve…
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this three part series, “Facebook and Fellowship,” Mel Lacey examined the value and the idolatry of Facebook. In this concluding section, she discusses the insufficiency of Facebook to provide true, satisfying…
It is very common these days to see Student Ministers or other staff members want to be lead pastors. It has been my experience that, as youth guys get around each other, they talk a lot about the…
