I watched Bo Burnham’s comedy special Make Happy on Netflix for the first time in the fall of my freshman…
A couple of mornings every week, I walk my middle-school daughter and my cabin-fever dog to the bus stop on…
The pace of youth ministry in the summer can be fierce. Once the train leaves the station, trying to get…
The pace of youth ministry in the summer can be fierce. Once the train leaves the station, trying to get…
Middle-school ministry isn’t easy. And as a 54-year-old who’s been engaged with young teenagers in one role or another for…
“Your face is why filters were invented.” “Are you Jabba the gutt?” “I never date sluts like you.” Ahh, just…
Before the next school year starts, I dare you to set the kind of high-level ministry goals that will revolutionize…
For me the answer is simple. It works. Teenagers serve others, and, in the process, those young people grow closer to God. I’ve never seen anything like mission trips for helping young people figure out what being a Christian is all about. What could be wrong with that?
I looked over the crowd of students as they stared at me blankly. My hope had been for a reaction…
The pace of youth ministry in the summer can be fierce. Once the train leaves the station, trying to get…
Over the last decade, there’s been A LOT of smack-talk about short-term mission trips (STMT’s)—in the youth ministry community. It’s…
