Competition in Ministry and Brothers in Christ For as long as I can remember, I have been an extremely competitive person. As a young child darting and dashing around the soccer field, my desire to be “the best”…
It used to be primarily summer when beautiful bronzed bodies in itsy bitsy bikinis invaded pools everywhere (and made me want to cover my two little boys’ eyes). But these days the trending clothing styles, no matter the…
As families find their ways into “back to school” rhythms, our church’s student ministry leadership team is preparing to teach through John 11-21. Having studied the first ten chapters last year, the completion of our study of the…
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…
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…
Like everyone else, I sat dumbfounded when I heard the Sunday morning news on June 12th: 50 people killed in an Orlando nightclub. As the days past, numbness set in. And then I heard an interview on NPR…
This is the sixth piece in our series, “The Scriptures I Use When I Teach On _____.” Our hope is to offer our readers some of the go-to Scriptures we use for teaching on certain topics that aren’t…
Have you ever asked yourself, “What is the biggest struggle my students are facing?” Maybe that should be a rhetorical question. We probably ask ourselves that question in one form or another on a regular basis. I suspect there are…
There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a student joyfully find their true identity in Christ and disregard the world’s opinion.
