Tagged: Youth Ministry

Why Do Teens Leave? 0

Why Do Teens Leave?

I just finished listening to a podcast on Inside Lifeway about The Leaving Generation. Jim Johnston of Lifeway talked about a recent study they did on young adults from ages 18 to 34 and...

Weekend At Home 0

Weekend At Home

I’ve had a great weekend, mainly because we had no big projects going on and no place we had to be. I got to spend some great times with Jennifer and the kids. Also,...

American Idol Again 0

American Idol Again

I hate to admit it, but I really like watching American Idol, especially the later rounds of competition. And so it has started yet again. But after watching the first two shows, I’m left...

5 Teen Predictions for 2007 from Dare2Share 0

5 Teen Predictions for 2007 from Dare2Share

I read this over on the Shift Conference Blog and the ChristianPost Dare2Share has come up with a list of predictions. These are interesting to think about. We must constantly reflect on the methods...

A Fresh Start 0

A Fresh Start

People make all kinds of New Year’s Resolutions, but few people ever keep them. When I was planning for this past weekend’s message at church, I really thought about motivating people to live radically...

Why Teens Do Stupid Stuff, Part 2 0

Why Teens Do Stupid Stuff, Part 2

Not only do teens sometimes make bad choices because of their need for affirmation, but there can also be physiological reasons as well. I read an interesting article about the teenage brain. We all...

Lessons from Billy Graham 0

Lessons from Billy Graham

I heard on SpirtFM this morning a list of 6 lessons for life that Billy Graham shared with Reader’s Digest. I think they are very timely for our youth ministry to think about, especially...

Why Teens Do Stupid Things 0

Why Teens Do Stupid Things

Interesting article on Yahoo from LiveScience. It seems like teens really do think about the consequences of their actions. But their decisions are usually not based upon the consequences, they are based upon the...

Our New Gated Community 1

Our New Gated Community

We had to cancel youth Sunday night because of the wedding I was officiating. When we arrived home late, we found out that the youth actually did meet to do a service project. I...

Getting Back to the Basics 2

Getting Back to the Basics

After working with the youth at Cornerstone for the last few months, I decided to do a short survey to see what their core beliefs were. I used similar questions that George Barna used...

10 is the new 15 1

10 is the new 15

Interesting article on MSNBC this morning. It immediately brought up two questions in my mind. Are kids really growing up faster? What can we do about it as parents and Youth Ministers? I think...