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Youth Ministry Essentials: 10 Tips For An Incredible Parent Meeting

Guest Post by Jason Curry They are an essential part of youth ministry. And I’m not talking about release forms. I’m talking about parent...

Youth Ministry, Boundaries, and Burnout — Part 2: Looking at the Population You Serve

This is the second in my series on Youth Ministry, Boundaries and Burnout, a topic which has become very important to me over the...

How Story Plays into Sharing our Faith

Before I suggest how story fits in sharing our faith. I think it’s important to think about the goal of our faith. Take a...

Level of Difficulty

Adam McLane says there's an injustice in the ministry world between skill level and ministry placement.

Study: Are Students More Stressed Now than During the Depression?

Are today's youth more stressed than teens their own age who grew up in the 1930s?

4 Ways to Promote Intentional Spiritual Parenting

Help your students' parents understand the importance of their roles.

Fragile Family Phenomenon

Forty percent of all babies are born into "fragile" families. Has the church noticed this phenomenon?

Your Ministry of Discouragement

Having just spent a week with Christian leaders I came home with a raw heart. Surely, I came home tired. But I also came home perplexed...

Helping Teenagers See A 3-D Jesus

1 John 1:1 says: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked...

Generation to Generation: Empowering Students to be Examples

Each week we’ll be writing about different ways that we, as leaders, can effectively be examples to our students, and we’ll discuss different topics...

Your Marriage and Facebook: Just Don’t Be an “Idiot.”

Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot....

Free Outreach-Focused Prayer Guide for Students

"Meet three Christians three times a week to pray for three non-Christian friends."

Ignatius, Rockstar Youth Pastor

Everyone wants to be like Ignatius, the Rockstar Youth Pastor, but Ignatius has it all wrong.

I Think I’m Gay: Dialogue with Teens Who Struggle

As youth workers, we need to be ready to walk with students through trials.

New Study: Video Games Not Harmful to Most Students

Contrary to popular belief, video games may not be harmful to teens.

Fight or Flight

This post is not intended to bring anyone pain. My intent is to have conversation with youth leaders about leadership in the...

How to Counsel: When A Student Says, “I Need To Talk”

In the last few weeks our students have been opening up quite a bit about personal struggles. I thought I’d share some insights...

An Inside Look at Bullying

"Anti-bullying" is the new hot commodity. And everyone seems to have an expert opinion... people who haven't been bullied. Two nights ago I was watching...

Post-National Youth Workers Convention

well, the nywc is almost over. only the final ‘big room’ to go. i’ll be heading down in a few minutes...

The Conversation

Here I am again, in a lovely hotel room going over the plan for my day here at Youth Specialties National Youth Workers Convention....

Remains of Pastor’s Wife and Friend Identified; OK County GOP Chair...

News surfaced this week that Tifany Machel Adams is the GOP chair for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Adams is one of four suspects charged with kidnapping and murdering pastor's wife Jilian Kelley and Kelley's friend Veronica Butler.

Rebecca McLaughlin on Whether Christians Can Agree To Disagree About Same-Sex...

Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how church leaders can respond to common arguments that use the Bible to affirm same-sex relationships, the “why” behind God’s design for marriage, and the “beautiful and glorious vision” Christianity has for friendship.

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