Month: September 2010

  • Who’s Afraid of Inerrancy?

    An excellent post that is very relevant to the issues that divide TEC… A panel discussion that included Brian McLaren, Alistair McGrath, and Tim Keller tackled the question of inerrancy. McGrath’s response was disappointing. He explained that he doesn’t like the term because it sounds too self-assured, like we have everything figured out and our…

  • Sexy Too Soon

    Vicki Courtney writes for Focus on the Family… American girls are increasingly being fed a steady diet of products and images that pressure them to be sexy. The American Psychological Association (APA) warns that this sexualization of girls is harmful to their self-image and healthy development. “[Girls are] experiencing teen pressures at younger and younger…

  • Does Using Apple Products Make You A Better Christian?

    Stephen Altrogge gives five compelling reasons why they do. When I started this job nine years ago, youth ministers made fun of me for wanting a Mac laptop. It was all I knew and the PC given to me was rubbish. Now Macs are the norm. Hmmmm… I don’t for a minute think I started…

  • How is your worship in youth group?

    Rob Sturdy posted this excellent quote on his blog. … Our worship is poor because our knowledge of God is poor, and our knowledge of God is poor because our preaching is poor. But when the Word of God is expounded in its fullness, and the congregation begin to glimpse the glory of the living…

  • Interpreting criticism

    Seth Godin makes a good point about criticism that I think really needs to connect to our thinking about youth ministry… for example… too many in youth ministry cave to the idea that kids have an attention span of about 10 minutes. Criticism of your idea is usually based on assumptions about the world as…

  • Flatlined Youth Ministries

    “Deech” Kirk has made an important point here in suggesting that the reason kids drop out of youth groups is not the drivers license. In consulting with churches through Youth Ministry Architects and CYMT, I hear over and over again about how students become less active or drop out of youth ministry around the age…

  • Almost Christian… getting around

    This stuff is really making the rounds… A major study of religion in youth found that many young people are “almost Christian” – they believe in God, but they don’t believe Christian doctrines. That has caused several youth ministries to move from fun and games at youth groups to more intense Bible studies. They also…

  • History

    We rightly concern ourselves with teaching the Bible and nurturing a solid faith in the lives of the students we work with. Sometimes I wonder if we need to be showing students how the faith of people in past generations influenced what thet accomplished in life. Then I noticed this short clip on a blog…

  • no notes?

    David Murray, a seminary professor up north, is blogging a series of articles on preaching that relate to speaking/teaching to our youth groups. He encourages folks to get so into what they are communicating that they use no notes. That may be easy for you already but in case it is not, he offers some…

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