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Youth Ministry Round Up #5
I just like this photo: So many lessons. For us pic.twitter.com/6o9IZS6cMX— Adam Ford (@Adam4d) March 30, 2018 Articles More People Likely To Divorce After Watching Porn, Study Says How I Plan Curriculum - Heather Lea Campbell How I Write A Sermon...
Youth Ministry Round Up #4
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without...
Youth Ministry Revival Requires Relentlessly Poking The Fire
This is my ninth, and final, post in my series 9 WaysTo Dynamically Revive Your Youth Ministry. You can click here to start at the beginning. When I give you ideas and tactics for reviving your youth ministry, I make some assumptions. I assume you...
Letting Parents Power Your Youth Youth Ministry
This is my eighth post in my series The 9 Dynamic Ways To Revive Your Youth Ministry. You can start the series HERE I can remember a parent coming to me with a concern that middle school girls (of which she had one) was not getting enough...
Easter Resources For Your Youth Ministry
It's Passion week. Are you still struggling to find the perfect message or the best way for your kids to enter into the fullness of the gospel? Let me offer a few suggestions. Three Cups With a video (seen below) of me explaining this sermon, and...
If You Love It, Make It Better
I am currently reading Brene' Brown's Braving The Wilderness. There's a quote (among many) that really spoke to me. The quote's context deals with living in the tension of taking an opposing view. In this case, it was a Penn State athlete who...
How I Write A Sermon Series
I'm super excited about a new series I've written called Shine A Light. If you've never done one of my series, let me give you a behind the scenes look. I write most of my multi-weeks series' as a discipleship narrative. I write the series as if I...
You Won’t Revive Your Youth Ministry Alone
This is the seventh post in my series The 9 Dynamic Ways To Revive Your Youth Ministry. You can start at the beginning here One of the most powerful movie moments I can remember is from the movie The Abyss. It stars Ed Harris. The scene is Harris'...
Youth Ministry Round Up #3
The Tweets You're about to transition from being skipped over to being sought after! Relax!! You won't have to compete for what God says is yours.— Real Talk Kim (@RealTalkKim) March 21, 2018 This is grit. Stop rescuing kids. Let them fail,...
5 High Value Questions You Should Be Asking About Your Middle School Ministry
This is the sixth post in my series on The 9 Dynamic Ways To Revive Your Youth Ministry. Click HERE to start at the beginning if you like. If you want to revive your youth ministry, look to the bottom grade level. Look at who is coming up...
Three Ways A Committed Mission Will Awaken Your Youth Ministry
This is part five of a nine part series called 9 Dynamic Ways To Revive Your Youth Ministry. You can start at the beginning HERE. We talked about Reinvigorating Your Youth Ministry With A Clear, Compelling Vision. Vision is great. It's the end...
Raising A Dead Youth Ministry One By One
This is part four in my series 9 Dynamic Ways To Revive A Dying Youth Ministry. If you're behind, you can start HERE Sometimes, as a youth pastor, you will inherit a hot mess or a dumpster fire. The previous youth pastor did their best or...
Youth Ministry Round Up #2
Quotes "When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world."#CSLewis— C. S. Lewis (@CSLewisDaily) March 13, 2018 Articles Walk Up Not Walk Out Only One Walked Out In NC...
Why I Won’t Hold The Hand of A Dying Church
It just hurts too much. I've been a part of a few churches where I saw it happening in front of my eyes. Why is it that the number 2-4 guys can see it but not the number one guy? I'm not built for it, emotionally that is. I can' stand to watch...
Micro-Managing Pastors vs Hands Off Pastors
I took a recent poll of youth workers, asking them which they hated more: Micro-Managing Pastors or Hands Off Pastosr. The overwhelming answer was the micro-managing pastor was worse. I have worked for both types of pastors and, if had to choose, I...
The Disciple Project OUTREACH MANUAL
HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR DECAYING YOUTH MEETING INTO A FLOURISHING CITY-WIDE MOVEMENT