Archive for Theology of Youth Ministry
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 [...]
3 Statements that Don’t Sum up the Message of the Bible
I heard a pastor of a large church say the following, “I’m going to give you the cliff notes version of the Bible: Love God Love One Another Love Your Neighbor as Yourself” This might sound pretty good to the average congregant, but it presents some serious problems. Let’s examine these three statements one by [...]
We are to Love God’s word: Do we have to like it?
What does it mean to love something? If you looked up the definition of this word you would find many different meanings. Furthermore, this word can be a noun or a verb. Primarily this word is used to describe a strong affection or devotion to a thing or person. However, in our culture we use [...]
Marriage and Teens
We must teach kids and teens about marriage. No, I’m not from some back hills county where it is okay to marry 14 year olds (or younger). That said, there is this casual approach to relationships as if they are not a big deal. Not that long ago I had a conversation with a 4th [...]
Judgmental Church
This probably isn’t what you think…I know it has been in vogue to attack the church from within, calling it judgmental, irrelevant, and out of touch. I’m not going to do that. Actually I am tired of being labeled “judgmental” and I believe it is largely unwarranted. So this post will be a short defense [...]
Top Five Resources for Youth Ministry
These are the top resources I use. They may not be your typical resources, but if I had to give up everything except for five, these are the ones I would keep: Logos Bible Study software ESV Study Bible A good systematic theology. I have several, but I would probably recommend Doctrine by Mark Driscoll [...]
Why Sinners Sin
Have you ever read a horrible news article that brought you to tears and asked yourself “how can someone do that to another person?” Or have you ever encountered someone at work who was arrogant, only looked after themselves and would do anything to climb the company ladder and asked yourself “how can a person [...]
Denver Christmas Conference & Crusade for Christ
College ministry has unfortunately been primarily left to para-church ministries like Crusade for Christ and many others. I think and hope this is changing. The longer I am involved in this area the more I realize the need for this kind of ministry in the local church. I took some students to the Christmas conference [...]
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 [...]
