Life moves faster than you think. Breaking news usually becomes old news in just 24 hours. By the time I plan to see a movie in the theatre, it’s often no longer showing. I don’t embrace change all that wel...

I was sitting on a yellow vintage couch in a beautiful home in Maui years ago when I first moved there. I remember studying God’s truth with a few ladies my age. For a month we were going to go through the bo...

Not long ago I was driving through the countryside when my GPS went on the blink.  Lost and disoriented, I happened upon a small country church where, upon approaching the front door to ask for directions, I n...

Have you ever had a conversation with someone and 5 minutes later you can’t remember what in the world the conversation was about? If that has happened to you, and it has most definitely happened to me, then ...

It’s no secret that there is so much negativity going on in the world around us. Between the horrible news reports, craziness in politics and the uncertainty of the future, it can sometimes make us feel a lit...

Have you ever been at the gym, running on the treadmill or maybe over in the weights section and reached that place in your workout where everything inside you is saying, ”Stop What You Are Doing To Me!” Mi...

The goal is to get the outsider to feel that they belong before they have to believe. Getting feedback will be helpful as you begin to figure out how your youth ministry can reach those outside.

The parachurch ministry, Young Life, has a saying in regards to contact work. They say that in order to reach teens you need to “go where kids are”.  This may be hard for us to comprehend because many of ...

The longer I do student ministry, the more I realize that the school year really kicks off student ministry. In our church, over half of our students are gone during the summer on vacation or at camps, but wh...

The hard faith journey does not end with the completion of eighth grade. The larger percentage of students own a personal faith during the middle school year, but the final steps of solidifying belief often happen in the first six months of the freshman year. The things they have begun to believe will be challenged immediately in high school.