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How to Handle Your Teens in Crisis

What you need to do is make sure it doesn’t take over your life.

4 Things That Will Kill Your Goals

So many times, the goals we set are just a list of wishes and we try to accomplish too much.

Why You Should Practice Confrontation Now

If church leaders increased the speed and practice of confrontation, they would change the effectiveness of the church.

4 Reasons You Should Be a Relationship Broker

The diversity of people, vocations, passions and connections is immense and the opportunity for us is to be brokers of those relationships.

How to Help a Youth Ministry Guest Speaker Win

Here is a great list to help out a guest speaker better communicate to their audience.

3 Reasons Why You Should Get in Shape

Let’s be fit in 2014 for the glory of God and advancement of His Kingdom!

How Important Is Your Teaching in Your Ministry?

Are we spending too much of our time focused on our 30-minute talk?

10 Tips for Developing Student Leaders

Connect students with serving opportunities in the church.

3 Best Practices for Improving Your Speaking

The better your delivery, the more you’ll be able to inspire.

3 Tips for Teaching the Bible to Middle School Students

Showing students the Big Picture story of Scripture, driving home the One Main Thing and leaving them with a key Takeaway.

The Single Most Effective Way to Invite Students

No social media campaign, no text messaging, no flyer, reminder or announcement can ever trump this invitation.

9 Questions to Help You Lead With Passion

Are you feeling stagnant? Take time to think through the following questions.

10 Healthy Habits Youth Pastors Make

Sustainable youth ministries fail all the time; they thrive in a culture of experimentation, innovation and creativity.

5 Truths Every Youth Pastor Forgets

I think many of us get so focused on reaching teenagers that we get surprised by the same realities in ministry over and over.

4 Qualities of a Great Small Group Leader

While everyone is meant to be in a small group, not everyone has the makeup to be a small group leader.

How to Find the Right Leaders for Your Team

One of the greatest challenges for any organization is finding the right leaders to join the team.

4 Ways to Help You Stop Sweating the Numbers

When we live and die by attendance numbers, we allow something other than the Love of God to determine our value.

Are You a Student-Led Youth Pastor?

Youth workers who let their students decide what events they are going to do in their ministry are weak leaders.

Why Your Volunteers Have More Impact Than You

If volunteers really understood their impact, we'd never have trouble finding enough of them.

David Ashcraft on the Surprising, ‘Deep Emotions’ He Felt Stepping Down...

David Ashcraft joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how leadership has changed, how pastors can leave their churches better than they found them, and the startling emotions he felt when he stepped down as senior pastor.

Articles for Youth Leaders