5 Times NOT to Love Your Students
There are times when how you express love for your students could actually create an unloving environment for others.
Don’t Waste Your Life Doing Youth Ministry
It's time to stop wasting our time doing youth ministry and instead lead our teens into a God-breathed revolution that will change their peers and impact their world.
How to Partner WITH Parents in Student Ministry
We must partner with the parents in student ministry, so we do not add more stress or tension to the busy schedules of our students.
10 Ways to Ruin Your Next Sermon
Take note: These items could derail your very next talk!
How to Create a Personal Growth Plan for this Year
How do we create a personal growth plan in our spiritual journey, our personal growth or our leadership development?
Student Bible Reading: How to Get Students to Actually Read Their Bibles!
What if I told you student Bible reading were possible?
Where Have All the Youth Pastors Gone?
Low pay, poor management and unrealistic expectations are true reasons why people don’t want to be youth pastors. There is, however, another side to this coin.
One of the Most Dangerous Phrases Used in Parenting
"Are you guilty of falling into the dangerous trap of threat phrase parenting?"
How Youth Pastors Can Start Fresh at a New Church
God called us to start fresh in a new church—four key lessons.
7 Ways to Measure Success in Your Youth Ministry
Don't fall prey to the numbers game—here are the actual measurements for success that matter.
How to Help Lead Change
How can you help lead change in your ministry when people struggle and stress over it?
7 Simple Ways to Grow Teenagers’ Faith
How you can help your students accelerate their spiritual growth, maturity, and faith.
Don’t Lose Ministry Momentum
Here are three simple keys to maintain ministry momentum.
16 Words Your Youth Volunteers Need to Hear
Use these 16 words to encourage and thank your volunteers.
Why Youth Pastors Need to Protect Time Off
For your soul care, the need to protect time off from your office and work to retreat and revitalize is crucial.
Was Jesus Ever Discouraged in His Ministry?
If Jesus was never discouraged, and He is the example I need to follow, then what is my problem?
Raising Up Student Worship Leaders
Why is it important and how do you raise up student worship leaders?
Where First-Time Bible Readers Should Start
How to answer when first-time Bible readers asks you where to start reading the Scriptures.
10 Reasons Middle Schoolers Are Awesome
Middle schoolers tend to get a bad rap because they come with many challenges. Here are 10 reasons why middle schoolers are uniquely awesome.
Why Regrets Are a Waste of Time
It’s that time of year where we may feel regret because we didn’t do what we had planned to do, because we tried but didn’t even come close, because well, we failed.
Latest News
James MacDonald May Not Be Welcome at Harvest Naples After All
Pastor John Secrest of the Harvest Naples campus says he was not consulted in the decision to allow James MacDonald to preach at the Naples campus during his "indefinite sabbatical" and that he does not support the decision.
New Podcasts
Brent Crowe: When You Live and Lead With Regret
“There’s never been a life lived that didn’t have regrets. There’s never been a life lived that didn’t fail on some level or another," Brent Crowe says. In our conversation, Brent encourages leaders to shift their paradigm on regret and failure.
