We loved this article from Joe Deegan over on The Gospel Coalition last week – check it out! “Many worship songs are either simplistically shallow or awkwardly antiquated. For many students in our youth groups, hymns fall into…
This is part two, of a two-part article. You can read the first article here. Let me suggest four ways student pastors can pursue experiences of God’s presence for their students, without using emotional manipulation. See Worship as…
More than a Camp High (Part One): How Student Ministries can Pursue Experiencing God’s Presence in Worship, Without Emotional Manipulation Our teens don’t just want to know God, they want to experience Him. And they’re not wrong…
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…
Our effort to develop mature worshippers requires that we seek the Lord in prayer, asking for His insight into how our students presently worship, what a mature worshipper would look like, and what the next progressive step would…
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…
In one sense, what we do as youth ministers is unique in the world of church ministry. Our job definitely includes some of the most fun – and perhaps, also, the most heartbreak. But in another sense, our…
