For a couple years now I’ve been increasingly disappointed in the direction Ron Luce and Teen Mania are going with this whole Battle Cry thing. I attended…

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…

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…

Last Saturday I went out to Youth Specialties’ The CORE training in Maple Grove, Minnesota with several other youth volunteers from my church. The topic…

My youth group volunteers and myself are getting ready to go into a recruiting phase. Our current ratio of leaders to students is about 1 to 10, which is…

Dennis posted a talk outline on Luke 15:11-32 called, Don’t land in the garbage dump. If you’re looking for a free youth ministry Bible lesson (and…

A female high school student is considering youth ministry as a full-time vocation and interviewed me with a couple questions. Here’s my response. She…

I saw this old commercial video clip at Gman’s blog and thought it was a great illustration of what youth ministry is like. So, this weekend I showed it…