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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.

10 Ways to Identify and Develop Missionaries From Your Student Ministry

Just as we would prepare a young man to be a pastor by giving him opportunities to lead a Bible study, we can prepare students to become missionaries by giving them opportunities to be involved in missions now.

Write Your Name on the Wall

Want people to remember your name for time and eternity? Here's how.

4 Money Mistakes Youth Pastors Make

Here are the four most common money mistakes I see when I help youth workers manage their budgets.

6 Things I Learned About COMPASSION…

You really never understand a ministry until you see how they function in their ministry setting. Looking from a distance will never give you...

Teens and Church: Is It Worth the Battle?

Do you force attendance and run the risk of making your teenager even angrier with you, the church and maybe even God?

20 Tips to Spice Up Bible Teaching

"We get in the habit of teaching the same basic structure of a lesson over and over again," says Andy Blanks.

6 Questions To Ask Your Youth Pastor

Evaluation is important; it’s the way to growth.

What to Do When Your Child Has Thoughts of Suicide

Suicide is not something anyone wants to think about, much less become familiar with, but when you're child expresses thoughts of suicide, you may not know what to do. Here's what you as a parent can do for your child.

The Game Changing App for Teen Evangelism You’ve Been Waiting For

Imagine if you could give the teens in your youth group an app that made teen evangelism and sharing the Gospel both easy and engaging. The 6 words app is just that.

What Purpose-Driven Means to Generation Z

Clearly a purpose-driven church is needed now more than ever. But do our purposes align with theirs in a way that would prove attractive? You might be surprised.

Please Don’t Give Them Porn for Christmas

This Christmas a lot of children will receive pornography from under the tree. It's not what they wanted, and not what their parents intended for them to have.

How to Take Care of Introverts in Your Ministry

Here are some thoughts on how youth ministry can take care of introverts at a party based on what I’m picking up from Susan Cain's recently released new book: Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts (A guide for KIDS and TEENS).

4 Super Effective Ways to Motivate Spiritually Apathetic Teenagers

If you've been in youth ministry for any amount of time, you've encountered spiritually apathetic teenagers. Between the rolling eyes and heavy sighs it's easy to get discouraged when it comes to inspiring young people to know, live, share and own their faith.

Unbelievable: A Netflix Show Youth Workers and Parents Might Want to Watch

Every once in a while a movie or TV show comes along that actually “gets” young people today or provides a glimpse at “how to reach them.” Well, Netflix just released a series titled, Unbelievable, that literally took my breath away, on several levels.

Why Your Children’s Ministry Isn’t Growing … Sports Are Not the Problem

Think sports are the problem for your children's ministry's shrinking attendance? Think again. Here are real reasons your children's ministry isn't growing.

Mind the Gap: Reuniting Generations in Our Churches

Recently there’s been a return to cross-generational and intergenerational communities and contexts with reuniting generations in our generations. This is mostly because of the research being done on the importance of multigenerational community.

8 Deadly Sins of Student Pastors

Student ministry is one of the greatest callings within the church! But there are some deadly sins of student pastors that must be avoided.
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Tara Sun: Don’t Neglect Your Own Soul for the Sake of...

ChurchLeaders spoke to Tara Sun about her new book, “Overbooked and Overwhelmed,” which comes from her own experience with being stretched to the max in her life and is full of wisdom from the Bible about what rest truly means.
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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