Category: Youth Ministry

Found this interesting look at 37 ways that Christians can love one another as prescribed by scripture.  It includes… Be devoted to one another (Rom. 12:10).Give preference to one another (Rom. 12:10).Be of the same mind toward one another (Rom. 12:16).Accept one another by withholding judgment (Rom. 14:1).Accept one another by showing deference (Rom. 14:1–5;…

A friend in Australia, Graham Stanton, has posted a three part response to the movie “Divided” which is worth considering.  Graham is a guy who is willing to slay sacred cows and take on ideas that have wide acceptance but might not be exactly biblical.  I watched him do this fairly effectively at an international…

The recent riots and looting that started in London and spread across England was very disturbing to watch.  I found the news very depressing… enough to put me in a bit of a funk and begin pondering how things got that way.  The thought of a generation that would erupt in chaos should be incredibly…

The Gospel Coalition posted a piece that I am sure a bunch of you have read, but for those who have not…  It is here. The daunting statistics about chucchgoing youth keep rolling in. Panic ensues. What are we doing wrong in our churches? In our youth ministries? It’s hard to sort through the various…

Ed Stetzer weighs in on the media portraying the Norway shooter as a Christian Fundamentalist.  It’s worth reading.  A quote from it… 


A narrative is being fashioned about conservative Christians (and to the media, just about all evangelicals would be very conservative). 
That narrative is that they are simple, angry, persecute gays, cling to God…

Yesterday I had a chat with a pastor who asked what I do for a living.  I told him and then he commented something about people growing out of youth ministry and how I had found a way to stay in it.  That really kinda bugged me and reminded me of the mentality of so…

Yes, I am big on looking at current events and considering how we as Christian youth ministry folk address these with our youth groups.  Most of the time I think we fail to do so.  It might be helpful if we considered adding a current events segment to youth group time once a month or…

“I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that “nothing happens” when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings…

I am blogging the visit from our partnership with the Diocese of Kilmore, Elphin, & Ardagh at http://irelandpartnership.blogspot.com Do check it out!

Walt Mueller’s article in Youthworker online is something I really resonated with. His story and mine are not that different. Consider this comment “Perhaps it’s because we’re too busy doing stuff for God that we’ve lost our ability to slow down and let God tell us who we’re supposed to be and how we’re to…