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Ryan M. Blanck

Below you’ll find articles by Ryan M. Blanck. All of the articles on YouthWorker.com represent some of the best youth ministry content, written by experienced pastors. We pray you’ll find these to be a helpful resource in your ministry.
  • Ryan M. Blanck
    (October 2012)
    Art of any form contains its own lessons, but the making of art contains even richer lessons for those willing to dig through the history behind the piece.
  • Ryan M. Blanck
    (August 2012)
    Movie classics have so many important lessons in them. If your students have even fibbed, stretched the truth or outright lied to you or another person, here's a lesson you can use with them.
  • Ryan M. Blanck
    (July 2012)
    Decisions, decisions...Here's a lesson you can use with your youth to connect them to the classics, as well as help them think through what they would do if...
  • Ryan M. Blanck
    (July 2012)
    Loneliness is common to the human condition, and gaining the whole world and all its riches does nothing to counter the impact of loneliness. Here's a lesson you can use with your students based on the movie Citizen Kane regarding this theme.
  • Ryan M. Blanck
    (July 2012)
    We have a rich literary and cinematic heritage from which today's youth would benefit. Communicating via the classics is one method of engaging teens on their level while giving them substative material from which they can learn vital life truths.
  • Ryan M. Blanck
    (May 2012)
    Sometimes it takes getting lost to get us exactly where we need to be.
  • Ryan M. Blanck
    (May 2012)
    Will the real Jesus please stand up—and will we recognized Him when He does or shun Him because He isn't our ideal?
  • Ryan M. Blanck
    (April 2012)
    “I was going to give up procrastination for Lent, but I didn’t get around to it.” That was my Status Update on Ash Wednesday a couple of years ago. I got a better-than-average number of Likes and LOLs; but in reality, the Lenten season passed with no acts of self-denial and little spiritual reflection.
  • Ryan M. Blanck
    (March 2012)
    A source of useful in a dark environment, but there are some ways we shouldn't use light.
  • Ryan M. Blanck
    (March 2012)
    Why do we not consider the whole piece of music when determining if a song is something students should hearing? Tune in for some food for thought on how to address one segment of our kids' media and entertainment choices.

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