We asked several experienced student ministers how they balance discipleship and outreach in the context of ministry (In other words, what is the balance between reaching out to new students vs. discipling the students who are already in…
I had a chilling moment in my third year of youth ministry. I came to the last day of a study with senior boys. I had taught them for three years. We had gone through John and Romans….
In his essay, “The Native Hill,” Wendell Berry examines the worth of the two worlds in which he resides; one world is the literary, the place of his profession, and the other the natural, the place where he…
So often, our passions and drives in ministry are the byproduct of an experience or story from our own adolescence. In this series, we asked student leaders what shaped and enlivened their faith as teenagers, and how that…
This is the final article in our series, “Building a Kingdom Culture in Our Youth Ministries.” In this series, we will address passages from the Gospel of Luke, which demonstrates that the culture of God’s Kingdom is that…
The battle for the hearts of our students is not a new one. The world has always been vying for our students’ faith – attempting to offer them something more quickly gratifying to place their faith in. However,…
“To be honest, I’m starting to believe that God may not even be real.” These words, uttered by the student sitting across the table, haunted me as we finished up our lunches. They did not, unfortunately, come as…
What could Melchizedek, Moses, the Old Covenant, blood sacrifices, and a 13-chapter argument for the supremacy of Christ over all of these things possible have to do with the typical life of a young teenager? As it turns…
As the world bids farewell to the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, I find myself reflecting on the variety of ways in which God has been displayed over the course of these games. He has been appealed to…
