Archive for Teaching
What Students Want vs. What they Need
Recently Rick Lawrence of Group Magazine published the results of a survey of 20,000 plus teens answering the following questions: What would you like to do More of in your church’s youth ministry? (these results were published in the latest print version of Group) What is your biggest challenge in growing deeper in your relationship [...]
Immunizing Your Kids from the Homosexual Agenda
Drugs have become such a prevalent part of our society that we talk with our kids about them at a young age. There are books all over the place about how to deal with dating and sex with children and teens, but what about homosexuality? Elephants grow. I know, it is obvious but sometimes I [...]
My Top Five Podcasts
These are non-youth ministry podcast I listen to almost every week, and some of them every day. I have found them to be helpful in life, faith, and ministry. Perhaps they will be beneficial to you as well. You can find them all on iTunes: Stand to Reason is a radio show with Greg Koukle. [...]
Relevant Preaching and Teaching
Recently I took a few college students to the Christmas Conference in Denver put on by Campus Crusade (http://godcc.com). I will be writing a separate post about the conference. They invited Scott Nickel, one of the teaching pastors at Flat Irons Community Church to speak several times (http://www.flatironschurch.com). So often when you talk to students [...]
The Truth About Christmas
Every year sometime during the Christmas season I hear some radio show, news, broadcast, or something that takes some shots at the validity of Christmas. Sometime these shots are not taken by people who are atheist or follow some other tradition, but by fellow believers. For some people who have been brought up thinking Jesus [...]
When Creativity Trumps Content
I love movies with great special effects!! The flashier the better, to an extent. Some movies are all about flash and care nothing about substance. These are the movies I can do without. The same is true when it comes to music, art, and even food (there is nothing worse then food that looks like [...]
Helping Students Find Happiness
What is happiness? Before you read any further take a moment and try to define happiness. Tomorrow I am going skiing at one of my favorite resorts in Colorado. I love to ski, I love the feeling of powder running over my skis, hitting my ski pants, and even occasionally smacking me in the face. When I am going down the side of a mountain on a powder day, I am happy.
Called: Conversion
“In order further to prove a man’s call, after a little exercise of his gifts, such as I have already spoken of, he must see a measure of conversion-work going on under his efforts, or he may conclude that he has made a mistake…” Charles Spurgeon in Lectures To My Students Perhaps you read the [...]
Calling: Aptness to Teach
“In the second place, combined with the earnest desire to become a pastor, there must be aptness to teach and some measure of the other qualities needful for the office of a public instructor.” -Charles Spurgeon, Lectures To My Students
Teaching Students to Pray
Prayer is one of those spiritual disciplines that most of us struggle with. This is especially true for those of us who seem to always be “plugged in”. Our lives are filled with noise from our cell phones, computers, TVs, radios and so on. Over the past 15 years I have noticed a significant decline [...]
