In your discipleship planning, have you ever thought something like this? Let’s study Philippians just because it’s Philippians. Think about that. No cool theme or provocative issue. Just…simply…Philippians. Here’s why that could be our best discipleship planning method yet: It shows that we trust that God has … [Read more...]
Bible Study According to Peanuts
Maybe you saw this Peanuts comic strip last week. Or, if you’re a seasoned youth ministry vet, maybe you saw this Peanuts comic strip when it originally ran in 1969. I was around, but I wasn’t yet reading Peanuts. Peanuts’ creator, Charles Schulz, passed away in 2000. Had he still been with us, he might have revised the strip … [Read more...]
Can Jesus’ Prayer in John 17 Help Us?
Can Jesus' Prayer in John 17 Help Us? What was the unity for which Jesus was praying in John 17 and can it help today? If we believers could get our unity act together in our little world, could we change our bigger world? The thing is, would we know what Jesus-grade unity is if we saw it? We tend to focus on … [Read more...]
Making Sense of Suffering
The disciples asked the question for us: Why did this happen? In John 9 Jesus and his disciples passed by a man blind since birth. His disciples asked Jesus, ““Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” It was actually a legitimate question in that Jewish tradition taught at the time that … [Read more...]
Orlando Perspective
By now you know of the recent events at a nightclub in Orlando, the senseless, cowardly killing of 49 innocent victims. It’s the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, and the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. In seeking to process this tragedy with teens, or with your own children, you might find yourself … [Read more...]
20 Years | 20 Ways
It was 20 years ago this year! In May of 1996 a handful of friends and family gathered in a home to coalesce around a calling. We had a need: teens were leaving our churches with a faith ill-equipped to survive the spiritual rigors of the college age years. In response to this burden in our own youth ministry … [Read more...]
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