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4 Things You Can Do to Care for Your Soul

Practical things you can do to establish boundaries & care for your soul

Orchestration of Salvation

Use this video during a sermon as an illustration about how God uses small seemingly insignificant events in your life to lead you to salvation.

How Do You Worship?

Share this video with your students as an opener to a talk about worship.

Generation to Generation: Relationships vs Programming

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...

Adults Are Better…Students Are Best

This is Luke. He spoke recently at our Life Groups Praise & Worship nights. He did a great job, especially considering he’s a sophomore in...

What is Your Dream?

Do you have a dream? I mean, a BIG dream? Maybe you call it a goal. Perhaps it is item #1 on your...

First Things First

Last week for Time Out, we practiced a time of silence, something much needed for youth workers. Today, we’re going to try...

The Emotionally Healthy Youth Pastor

For the past 2.5 years my job has shifted from being a youth pastor to being a cheerleader, encourager, and fan of youth...

Youth Ministry Essentials: Crafting A Bible Study Lesson

Most youth workers have a specific curriculum they teach, so there’s not a consistent need to develop lessons from scratch. But what if...

Free Evangelism Training: How to Share Your Faith Story

"Every Christian teen has a faith story that is personal and powerful."

First Steps

Use this video to promote a new members class.

Linus Explains Christmas to Charlie Brown

Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about? Lights please... "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field,...

Ministry Lessons: Behavior – Deal With It

Many things can enhance or kill your ministry effectiveness. Behavior is a biggie. When I served as youth pastor in small churches, this...

Jesus is Uncool

“Cool: fashionable and attractive at the time” Jesus was not cool. He was not fashionable. He was not attractive during His time or...

The 10 Commandments of Discipleship

my friend paul martin is one of the smartest, most thoughtful youth workers you’ve never heard of. part of the reason you’ve...

It's Too Easy to be Negative

Looking around, it doesn’t take long to notice failures, disappointments, injustices and all manner of worldly details that ought to be different. ...

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.

‘The Church Is Called To Salt, Not Sugar,’ Says Pastor John...

John Amanchukwu Sr. serves as the First Assistant to the Senior Pastor and the Youth Pastor at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Andy Bannister: How Pastors and Churches Can Stop Living as ‘Undercover...

Dr. Andy Bannister joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how pastors and church members can share their faith boldly, strategically, and without fear.

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