Category: Youth Ministry

Found this one at a blog called fors clavigera The kids are not all right. That is the evidence-based, data-driven picture that is emerging from sociologist Christian Smith’s National Study of Youth and Religion. His account of the paucity of moral reasoning among twentysomethings can’t be chalked up as mere grumpy-old-man harumphing about “those damn…

I was recently reminded of a rather challenging question that I have wrestled with for many years now.  The fact that I don’t really have clear resolution on it is probably reflecting the relative nature of the question as it pertains to culture.  Since culture is constantly changing, and the norms we have are in…

Go to Monergism and download some books for your Kindle, Nook, iPad, etc and enjoy some incredible reading.  I highly recommend Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen which I read for a course as few years back.  Written in the 1920’s, you would think that (apart from the writing style) it was written in…

Fun to consider the vastness of God’s creation… To try imagining how big, place a penny down in front of you. If our sun were the size of that penny, the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, would be 350 miles away. Depending on where you live, that’s very likely in the next state (or possibly country)…

A great interview with Sean on the whole worldview subject… worth reading here a clip… There’s a well-known joke for lawyers that says when the facts are on your side, argue the facts. However, when you don’t have the facts, use emotion and state your case with absolute certainty. This is precisely what is going…

Ed Stetzer writes his reasons as to why we need our people in scripture regularly…  a few snippets… There is much research that shows the correlation between spiritual maturity and reading the Bible. I regularly hear of people who would rather read devotional books than read the Bible. Evangelicals in our country are just not…

A link because we need to chuckle once in a while… Siblings?

Over the summer, we assigned a book for the new members of youth commission to read.  We spent some time discussing it at our training day in September and I was impressed to see how much they comprehended.  My thinking is that all teens need to read this book.  It is short, moves very quickly…

In light of all saints day… when many make much of the reformers to whom we are greatly indebted…  I thought this was an interesting blog post… 3 Ways to Make the Reformers Proud

Sitting at the AYME Conference (Association of Youth Ministry Educators), I was eager to reflect on the chosen theme of incarnation and wrestle with it a bit.  Wrestling is a good thing in my mind.  We have to get our heads engaged sometimes and challenge those ideas or viewpoints that don’t always make sense to…