Youth Ministry

As parents, we’re eager for our children to experience the priceless gift of church for themselves. We feel grief and frustration when our teens resist attending services as a family. Here are seven ways to help teens break down their barriers to the church.

When your parents' marriage ends, even as an adult, the grief can feel overwhelming. These prayers and biblical truths will steady your heart and point you back to God's peace.

With God’s help, we can provide balance and truth that will empower kids to walk in freedom from fear. Here are some tips to use when talking to children about scary world events:

How do we as leaders get youth–especially those who are on the brink of adulthood—to prioritize their faith? Here are six amazing ways to teach them how to do that.

Our hearts are breaking over the devastating school shooting that has just happened at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. When we hear of this kind of evil, it can be overwhelming, discouraging, heartbreaking, and devastating to us. One of the most effective things that we can do is pray.

If you gave your life to Christ as a kid, you might feel like your faith story doesn’t count. But what if that’s actually your greatest strength?

If you’re a parent, teacher, or church minister like me, you’ve worked with children and teenagers and challenged them to share their faith. Because you know how important it is for the world that we share the gospel, and you know that sharing faith also builds the faith of the person who does it.

The often hokey attempts at entertaining the kids they were trying to keep around was not what kept me in the church. It was truth, community, and more than anything, a purpose and call to God’s Kingdom.

The past thirty years have seen revolutionary changes from the internet to the smartphone and all the good and bad these innovations have brought.

Social media can be harmful because it distorts our presentation and experiences of reality, priority, relationship, and rhythm. When our use of social media controls us instead of us controlling our use of social media, we become enslaved and our priorities distort to feed this new master.

Planning a mission trip? Don’t go without these five powerful prayers. They’ll help you check your motives, face spiritual battles, and figure out if this is the beginning of something much bigger.

What if the enemy’s plan isn’t temptation, but technology? C.S. Lewis saw this coming, and his warning hits harder now than ever.

Whether your youth ministry is large or small, is rich in curriculum or outreach programs or not, or has the flashy stage and band or not, the real heart of youth ministry is (and always should be) deep-rooted Godly teaching and guidance for the youth involved. Here are seven lessons that stood out to me the most during those formative years.

Our children are under spiritual attack, but the enemy’s tactics are subtle. Learn vulnerable areas where young hearts and minds are being shaped, and how we can respond with grace and God's Word.

By explaining worldly patterns to teens, and showing them how Christ calls us to live differently in these situations, we can help them understand the concept of being 'in the world but not of it.'