DISCLAIMER: I realize this is totally outside the usual scope of my blog and most readers aren’t interested in this kinda stuff, but I still felt like…

What suggestions do you have for this fellow youth worker?
A Life In Student Ministry reader submitted this question:
“Sometimes when I’m praying…

I was listening to Hoobastank in the car yesterday and the chorus to “First of Me” made me think about the approach many youth pastors take in youth…

I’ve been frustrated with our Christian educational system since I was in elementary school. Now, as an adult, I understand it a little better and know…

A couple weeks ago I got an email from a Journalism graduate student at the University of Kansas. She’s conducting an analysis of blogs written by pastors…

Looks like I was tagged by Brian Eberly with the “Thinking Blogger Award.” Thanks, Brian! Now I’m supposed to tag 5 more bloggers who cause me…

After my release of 130 Youth Ministry Tips & Ideas last week, Bill Allison of Cadre Ministries sent me a copy of his ebook, titled, “Grow, Minister…

Last week I was reading from Ezra. Chapter 8, verse 22 made me chuckle because it sounds just like something I would do. It says this:
And there by the Ahava…

Even though I haven’t been in my new youth ministry position for even three months yet, this time of year is when my church does their annual reviews for…

Not much is worse than loosing sight of the vision for ministry. Ministry easily becomes wrapped up in the repetitive administrative tasks and slowly warps from…