Category: Youth Ministry
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Shedding Light On Dark History
What should we call our middle school youth group? Back in the late 80’s the question was raised when the leader decided that the name it had been using for well over a decade was no longer helpful. His argument was along the lines of “we should not be associating our ministry with a dark…
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We had a fantastic weekend at St. Christopher looking at select passages from Romans and worshipping our Lord together! Check out the Video!Epic 2015 from Dave Wright on Vimeo.
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St. Patrick
Growing up I never claimed to be Irish. When I reached high school I had learned just a tiny bit about Irish things and concluded (rightly or wrongly) that to wear green on St. Patrick’s day is to associate with being Irish and that by extension associates with being Roman Catholic, but I learned that…
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Thinking about Heaven
My heart makes me think about Heaven more often than I used to. That’s not a metaphorical heart I am speaking of. If you have read my posts about the curse of arrhythmia, you understand. So I got thinking how wonderful eternity will be… donning white robes and singing praise to our creator. No longer…
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Do Our Messages Matter?
Long ago I heard two bits of advice on messages in youth ministry. One is that “students don’t care what you know until they know that you care”. There is an element of truth to this. Yet history shows us great itinerant preachers who led revivals without relationships. This would suggest that we can communicate…
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The Jesus Weekend in Pictures
The Jesus Weekend 2015 from Dave Wright on Vimeo.
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Two Kinds of Fishing
In the midst of an interview for a job as a youth director in a large church in Northern Virginia, I was explaining how the ministry I was currently leading had developed. I shared about changing tactics from a weekly youth group to two evenings a week where one was focused on making disciples and…
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Inspiring Teens
Nate Morgan Locke of Christianity Explored Ministries has a great article on the “Open up the Bible” website (a site devoted to helping people read the Bible more). In it he shares 4 great thoughts that are helpful for students to hear. 1. The Bible is about Jesus.2. God loves you, whether or not you…
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What We’re Saying When…
From Cameron Cole, Youth Minister at Cathedral Church of the Advent Birmingham AL from the Rooted Blog. Two of my couple friends have moved to new cities in the last few months and tried out new churches with disappointing results. One couple attended a church with a conservative bent where the pastor spent the sermon…
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Resisting the Urge to Do Cutting Edge Youth Ministry
My friend Cameron Cole, Youth Minister at The Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, AL wrote this for the Rooted Blog and it became one of the most read posts on that blog. He has graciously allowed me to post it here. In my early twenties upon moving to Birmingham, AL, I attended for…
