Month: October 2013

  • The Sufficiency of Scripture

    I have been since May, distributing a little book on the Sufficiency of Scripture by Rob Rienow.  It’s a great little book that argues that we need to look not only to the Bible for what we teach but for how we do ministry.  My convictions exactly! But some folks have taken the idea of…

  • Act Like a Small Youth Group, Remain a Small Youth Group

    I was reminded recently of a decision I made years ago that I think had more impact than I realized at the time. Reading an article about growing churches, I remembered a conscious decision I made in my twenties in my first church.  I was working in a 5000+ member church where the high school…

  • Nuda Scriptura & Youth Ministry

    How we interpret the Bible shapes what we teach students.  What and how we teach students shapes how they read the bible.  I know this because my bible study skills are largely attributable to listening to great bible expositors on the radio when I was a college student and young adult.  So, when I read…

  • Do your students know what is going on?

    Are they aware of this…? In recent days, people around the world have been appalled by images of attacks on churches in Pakistan, where 85 people died when two suicide bombers rushed the Anglican All Saints Church in Peshawar, and in Kenya, where an assault on a Catholic church in Wajir left one dead and…

  • Rob Schluter, Youth Minster at St John’s John’s Island, on Why am I an Anglican?

    Kendall Harmon posted this recently…Several years ago, as I watched our diocese and our church head towards the inevitable break with the national church and as I watched churches struggle with hard decisions on the uniqueness of Christ, the authority of scripture, or any other number of issues I went on a journey to see…

  • Mission Trips

    I’ve several times posted articles about the benefit and down sides to short term missions projects that are common amongst youth groups.  I never really thought about it until my senior pastor nixed a request to take a group to Russia because it was more cost efficient to send money and hire locals to work…

  • Modeling & Shaping A Biblical View Of The Church

    A version of this article appeared at The Gospel Coalition Blog on September 17 and garnered a lot of attention (measured by the 4000+ shares on Facebook).  Below is the original as submitted to the editors.  They did a great job in editing my work but left off one important reality.  The first church I…

  • Sniffing Around In Youth Ministry

    Growing up I always thought it odd that when two dogs first encounter each other they do a sort of circle dance trying to sniff each others ends.  Once accomplished, they seem fine with each other. The best I can figure out as to the meaning behind (no pun intended) such behavior is that they…

  • I love this guys heart

    At one of our events in 2012 we hosted Nathan Tasker to lead worship music and do a concert. It was an incredible time. I ran across this interview with him recently that really says much about who he is and what he is about. an excerpt… Do hymns have a special significance for you?Yeah…

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