The Youth Ministry Blog Network is about sharing ideas. It’s a place where you can find topics that you are interested in and contribute to the conversation. Everyone of of these is written by youth workers who know what it’s like to be in the trenches.…
I’ve talked to several people over the past couple of weeks who are deeply struggling with some issues in their lives. By no means am I the world’s greatest counselor or pastor, but I really believe in some simple advice that we can give for anyone going through a difficult struggle, whether it’s internal or external.…
I just slipped away from our church gym to finish this column. I wish you could be with me for the experience. Our youth group is sponsoring our “first ever dodge ball tournament”…complete with enough energy and testosterone to make you think that you were at the NBA playoffs!…
As I was reading my Bible the other day, I found myself in Exodus chapter 3—right when Moses was about to come face to face with a bush that was on fire, but was not being consumed. He didn’t know what to do with that, he didn’t have a context to put that one in.…
A few weeks ago, CPYU’s Chris Wagner gave me a heads-up about a new artist he thought was positioned to land very, very soon on the landscape of today’s youth culture in a big, loud way. He emailed me a link to the video “I Kissed a Girl” on Katy Perry’s website.…
Attention people! School is out and the plethora of summer movie offerings is already popping up in theaters like kiddie lemonade stands on thousands of suburban street corners across the USA. So which movies are you excited about? To be sure, this won’t be like last year of ‘3’s’ (Pirates 3, Shrek 3, Spidey 3, etc.,…
Hypothetically. You just got married and became a parent for the first time, and you wanna release an album about your new life. Would your descriptions include “making love in a club,” or getting it on with your significant other by “trading places” sexually? …
You’ve likely heard for years that 88 percent of churched high schoolers drop out of the church—permanently—by the time they graduate from college. Well, we challenged a class of youth ministry students at Bethel College in Indiana to either debunk or support the claim, and one student had no trouble blowing it out of the water.…
Encouraging our young people, and sending out Timothies to serve in God’s work…..should be a natural part of any church. What pride we have when we are able to nurture and support in our home congregations, those who desire to become preachers, teachers, missionaries, and other workers for the Lord.…
