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Are You Ready to Let Your Students Lead?

This video is another reason for how important it will be as youth leaders for us to create environments where students can spread...

GUEST POST: High Fives All Around

Guest Post by Geoff Stewart As I have grown up, I have learned many things about myself, that I love people, love Jesus and...

Nudge Your Students to Try New Things

Megan Hutchinson reminds us that we often need to nudge students in new directions.

A Consuming Generation

How many hours do students spend in media each week? The results may surprise you.

Fully Human, Fully God – The Skit Guys

I love these guys. You may not be able to see them live but you can bring them to your students on a...

Generation to Generation: Leadership Living

This is week 3 of a 10-week series. Each week we’ll be writing about different ways that we, as leaders, can effectively be...

How to Choose the Perfect Small Group Curriculum

As we head into the Life Group season full-swing, one of the big questions we have to answer is about curriculum for our...

The Best Practices of Healthy Youth Ministries

Let’s face it, there are a lot of books written about youth ministry. A lot. It seems a new “must read” book pops...

Religious Kids Do Better in School

Students involved in religious activities have higher GPAs, studies show.

Study: American 'Millennials' Spiritually Diverse

Thirty-one percent of Millennials pray by themselves at least once a day.

Free Teaching Game: Islands Initiative

Get your whole team across a set of islands without stepping into the lava!

Why Aren’t More People Good?

Maybe people don’t like to do good because they haven’t gotten bored with being bad? I had this thought while listening to an episode of...

Words

Words have power. Even on paper.

When Your Pastor Says We Have to Let You Go

I'm seeing more and more churches letting go of or cutting pay to their student ministries director. It's getting to the point that...

Next Steps for Experienced Youth Ministry Volunteers

I loved this post by Matt Lawson over at his blog, Revolution Speaks. It gives some very practical insights and actions steps to...

The Importance of Worship to Youth Ministry Volunteers

Matt and Steven have been doing a good series of posts from the youth ministry volunteer perspective over on Volunteer Youth Ministry. Here’s...

1 Kings 19 for Youth Workers

And the word of the LORD came to him (or her): “What are you doing here, Youth Worker?” Youth Worker replied, “I have been very...

The Pastor Man Up Movement

The last few years have seen the popularization of something I refer to as the Pastor Man Up Movement. (PMUM) You hear things said, like...

David Hughes IS Soccer

David Hughes knows hard work and dedication; therefore, David Hughes IS soccer.

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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