Category: Youth Ministry

This has been a rather difficult couple of weeks.  Sunday the 8th was very emotional.  We celebrated the life of my brother Steven.  It was the strangest thing to celebrate his life and then go eat at the same place we did after his wedding 14 months ago. I keep thinking this is all but…

In the midst of the news of my brothers unexpected and untimely death, I have had a variety of reflections that I want to process or share. They are somewhat random. One is how it struck me that Facebook has become a place to grieve and remember someone. I read a ton of posts about…

     On Sunday December 8 my wife and I will join family members in a funeral home for a viewing and service for my little brother Steve.  Last Monday night we got the call that he had gone into cardiac arrest and within a few hours, he passed away.  My brother was a mere…

We recently had the opportunity to have David Plant as guest speaker for our high school students at re:generate.  He did an amazing job!  Since then though he had the following article published on Gospel Coalition Blog. In the story of the transfiguration, Jesus takes his friends high atop a mountain to share with them…

The church of England has been in decline for a very long time and I am not sure most of the leadership gets it.  Oh, they see the decline in the reports but the general response has been less than inspiring. The evangelical churches are the only ones actually growing (sweeping generalization) and they face…

regenerate 2013 Slideshow from Dave Wright on Vimeo.

I hate to say that I was glad to read this!  What I really wish to read is that more churches are moving away from the stage and lights and rock concert approach to worship.  At least this is a step in that direction. Why Rock Star Worship Leaders Are Getting Fired Some megachurches have…

I have been since May, distributing a little book on the Sufficiency of Scripture by Rob Rienow.  It’s a great little book that argues that we need to look not only to the Bible for what we teach but for how we do ministry.  My convictions exactly! But some folks have taken the idea of…

I was reminded recently of a decision I made years ago that I think had more impact than I realized at the time. Reading an article about growing churches, I remembered a conscious decision I made in my twenties in my first church.  I was working in a 5000+ member church where the high school…

How we interpret the Bible shapes what we teach students.  What and how we teach students shapes how they read the bible.  I know this because my bible study skills are largely attributable to listening to great bible expositors on the radio when I was a college student and young adult.  So, when I read…