Youth Ministry

Is Theology Necessary for Student Ministry?

I have no supportive data for this reasoning, but I believe one specific reason teenagers leave the church is that…

19 Jul 2018

When I originally started writing this post, I only had ten statements that I would’ve told myself. But as I…

30 Jan 2018

In student ministry, it’s all too easy to methodize our ministries for entertainment or for the sake of numbers. If…

30 Nov 2017

I know everyone has their specific talents and abilities and skills that are given by God to be used for…

7 Nov 2017

NOTE: This book review was written for the Helwys Society Forum. “For too long, YFM (Youth and Family Ministry) has…

3 Nov 2017

I’ve often heard people say when speaking of youth ministry, that we need to dumb down our teaching to the…

21 Sep 2017

New Blog Post: 2 Reasons Entertainment Doesn’t Work in Ministry

8 Aug 2017

For the past couple of years, I have been battling with what my philosophy of student ministry consisted of. I’ve…

5 Apr 2017

It’s been a little while since I’ve written in this “series” (or whatever you’d like to call them) of blog…

25 Jan 2017

2 Timothy has most assuredly become one of my favorite New Testament books. For the past couple of years, I…

12 Jan 2017