I don’t do alter calls or invitations to come forward or anything, but I do make sure that I point every youth group lesson back to the gospel for several…

A while ago Greg Stier told me to check out the Deep & Wide ministry strategy and asked me to share my thoughts with him. I honestly put it off for a while…

2. Thou shalt regularly meditate on my Word. The word “meditate” makes a lot of us uncomfortable because of the religious Eastern overtones, but we…

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

An old post I wrote back in 2005 about youth ministry as an unbiblical position is gaining a lot of controversial attention.

Is it biblical for a church to pay…

Here’s a summary list of every issue in youth ministry that’s been mentioned by one of the series contributors. Whew! There certainly are a lot of…

Every once in a while I stumble across www.exchristian.net and read through some of the testimonies people submit about why they left the Christian faith. It…

Last week I had an extended conversation with a friend who’s graduating from Bible college this semester. She came to me saying, “I’m…

On the way home from our honeymoon a couple weeks ago Dana and I started listening to the audio book of Frank Peretti’s novel, “House.” The…

A friend of mine posted today some thoughts I’ve also shared and discussed with other ministry friends concerning church worship and icons. I…