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Crucial Elements of a Youth Ministry Training Session

What is your training sessions like with your volunteer staff? Rachel Blom offers 6 key elements!

Church, Believe in Young Leaders

Churches often struggle with empowering younger leaders, with handing significant responsibility to the next generation. Yet the Scripture gives us the sense that a church should believe in young leaders.

How to Ask Your Boss for a Raise

Youth ministry is a tough job that requires a ton of time and energy.

Pastor, Let the Children Preach: Why You Should Let the Youth Group Invade Your Pulpit

After two years of teaching Bible to freshmen and sophomores, I’ve realized something that pastors, youth leaders, and anyone interested in the word “discipleship” need to know. Teenagers are called to preach. You should welcome them to preach in your church. You should do it today.

How To Get Teenagers Talking in Meaningful Ways: 5 Practical Tips

Ever struggle with how to get teenagers talking? Learn practical tips for connecting with teens.

What do Teens, College Students and Parents Need?

I am thrilled to share with you that I have a new book coming out at the beginning of April with Zondervan Publishing.  It...

The Right Approach To Bible Study In Your Youth Ministry

Lately, we’ve been in a “busier than usual” production cycle. We’ve been fairly immersed in the role of the Bible in youth ministry lately. Which,...

Take Your Youth Group to a Concert They Actually Want to Attend

Winter Jam, one of the most successful Christian concerts, is making its rounds again, this time hitting 42 cities throughout the U.S. Tickets are cheap and there's even a free training for youth leaders.

Middle Schoolers Don’t Know How Bad Middle School Is (Yet)

Middle schoolers experience grief, hurt, and shame. But for most of them, this is their first time around. They will reflect back with a full bag of hurt and then put that emotion on all of their memories.

Why People Have No Interest in Your Youth Ministry

Chris Wesley asks the question, "How do people really see the student ministry?"

The Coronavirus, Youth Ministry and Evangelism

The topic of death is on the minds of a lot of teenagers right now, thanks to the untimely death of Kobe Bryant and the coronavirus. If you're a youth leader, you might want to consider this for your sermon on Sunday.

Youth Ministry Essentials: 5 Truths About Bible Study Curriculum

I’ve been designing, writing, and producing Bible Study curriculum for teenagers in some form for close to 15 years. It’s been my passion since...

4 Types of Parents in Your Youth Ministry

Parents play an important role in discipling their teenagers, but there are 4 different types of parents.

Bible Reading, The Key To Success

I realize that this is the Sunday school answer here but.... it is the answer. In ten years of youth ministry I'm finally starting to get...

5 Things All Youth Pastors Wish Their Senior Pastor Knew

What do you want to tell your Senior Pastor? What is holding you back?

How Moses Turned Into a Great Leader (and You Can, Too!)

As you scan the records of history there are few leaders who measure up to Moses. Who else could lead 2 1/2 million complaining...

Mom, Can I Have Tik Tok?

Lip sync to your favorite song, show off your dance moves or post a funny video of your cat. Tik Tok is like Vine...

5 Steps to Finding Family in Your Community

Everything you do as a pastor depends on your emotional and spiritual health.

Questions for John Piper, Louis Giglio, Francis Chan and Beth Moore about Passion 2012

The blogosphere is raging around the grand finish of Louis Giglio's Passion 2012 where Piper, Giglio, Chan and Moore led thousands of 20-somethings (mainly)...

3 Ways to Kickstart Your Students’ Spiritual Growth

2016 is here. Get your students ready to have a year like no other.
Delman Coates on premarital sex

Baptist Preacher Says There’s ‘No Biblical Basis’ for Abstaining From Premarital...

In a sermon series that aimed to "clarify what has been distorted and misunderstood by the church for millennia," Pastor Dr. Delman Coates fully supported consensual premarital sex.
Joby Martin

Joby Martin: What Happens When Pastors Finally Understand Grace

Joby Martin joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to discuss what happens when a church leader has truly been run over by the “grace train" and understands the profound love and grace of God.

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