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…
Dear Fellow Youth Worker, Let your delight show. I mean it. Be unabashedly, unreservedly excited about your students at every moment. Don’t hide your love. Don’t hold it back. Don’t keep it within the bounds of what is…
In this series, “Secular Wisdom at the Movies,” we hope to offer student leaders a resource – whether for summer programming or just regular teaching. So often we overlook biblical insight from the secular world. The movies in…
Despite the pains and struggles of youth ministry, my understanding of theology, discipleship, and evangelism would not be the same without it.
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…
