The following is what I presented at our convention in March. A few years ago I found myself in Houston TX for a meeting of the Young Anglicans Project.  The project is an organization that exists to advance youth ministry across North American Anglicanism. While there I got a phone call from a priest at…

Our community group has been studying Deuteronomy and we hit chapter 13. Initially it reads in a way that people could compare our Bible to the current events around the world and think that the God of the Bible is no different from the extremes of Islam.  Three instances are there of a command to…

Two years ago I was interviewed by the church that first hired me. Recently I tracked down the resulting video that has been shown at that church.  It is an interesting fly through highlights of my life and ministry.  It jumps from my conversion to the 9 and 1/2 years spent on staff there to…

Since The Gospel Coalition National Conference is this week (and I am sad not to be there) and since Rooted has a booth in the exhibit hall and hosting a coffee Tuesday night for Youth Ministry Folks, and since Rooted’s founder Cameron Cole is presenting a workshop this year at TGC…  I thought it appropriate…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

The Jesus Weekend 2015 from Dave Wright on Vimeo.