I was driving home from youth group under conviction. By most measures, it was a good night and the lesson was well-received by students. What I said was biblical and it was helpful, but the only time I…
Teaching the concept of grace to students is easy. The stories of forgiveness in the face of wrongdoing are the kind of stories that have kids riveted and hanging on your every word. Practicing grace is too often…
Youth ministry is noisy. For students, there is the noise of events, the youth band, the youth pastor teaching, and the reminders of future events that daily pop up on their social media feeds. For student ministers, there…
I was pretty much born in Sunday School with a Bible in hand. My dad has been a senior pastor since 1998, and before that, he was ministering in youth and assistant pastoring roles at various congregations. As…
We live in a culture that loves to obsess over various catastrophes. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed Lionel Shriver’s article, Why Catastrophising is My Idea of a Good Time, and her suggestion that our obsession…
The reason we so often fear the catastrophes around us is because we doubt the certainty of salvation promised by grace alone through faith alone.
Only when we teach the Old Testament faithfully will we demonstrate to our students the perfect continuity of our God.
If all we’re giving our students is topical sermons, we are teaching them to trust us more than they trust God’s Word.
In my house, we are currently viewing and reading stories about love. At the end of each day we settle down as a family to read together and the regular favorites are selected – The Little Mermaid, Frozen,…
