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7 Things to Do If Your Teen Hates Church

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...

7 Things to Do If Your Teen Hates Church

6 Amazing Ways to Teach Youth How to Prioritize Their Faith

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...

6 Amazing Ways to Teach Youth How to Prioritize Their Faith

5 Ways to Teach and Encourage Students to Share the Gospel at School

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....

5 Ways to Teach and Encourage Students to Share the Gospel at School

10 Benefits and Challenges of Accepting Christ at a Young Age

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?

10 Benefits and Challenges of Accepting Christ at a Young Age

4 Things Gen Z Believes about Jesus and 4 Things Millennials Believe about Jesus

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

4 Things Gen Z Believes about Jesus and 4 Things Millennials Believe about Jesus

5 Ways the Church Can Effectively Engage with Gen-Z

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...

5 Ways the Church Can Effectively Engage with Gen-Z

5 Reasons You Should Do a Social Media Fast

Social media can be harmful because it distorts our presentation and experiences of reality, priority, relationship, and rhythm. When our use of...

5 Reasons You Should Do a Social Media Fast

5 Prayers to Seek God’s Guidance on Summer Mission Trips

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...

5 Prayers to Seek God’s Guidance on Summer Mission Trips

7 Life Lessons Youth Ministries Need to Teach

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...

7 Life Lessons Youth Ministries Need to Teach

What is VBS? Understanding Vacation Bible School

Discover the history, structure, and benefits of Vacation Bible School (VBS) programs for Christian churches.

What is VBS? Understanding Vacation Bible School

8 Ways Satan Is Attacking Our Youth and How to Protect Them

Our children are under spiritual attack, but the enemy’s tactics are subtle. Learn vulnerable areas where young hearts and minds are being shaped,...

8 Ways Satan Is Attacking Our Youth and How to Protect Them

5 Things Christian Seniors Can Do to Mentor the Younger Generation

You have the opportunity and responsibility to guide and mentor younger Christians, helping them learn how to live each day with strong faith. Here...

5 Things Christian Seniors Can Do to Mentor the Younger Generation

How Can We Teach Teens to Be ‘In the World but Not of It?'

By explaining worldly patterns to teens, and showing them how Christ calls us to live differently in these situations, we can help them understand...

How Can We Teach Teens to Be ‘In the World but Not of It?'

10 Things to Do When Launching Your Graduate into a Secular World

When your child steps into a world that doesn't know Christ, you step into a new role that matters more than ever. These 10 Spirit-led actions will...

10 Things to Do When Launching Your Graduate into a Secular World

6 Fun Ways to Get Youth Actively Involved in the Church Body

The decline of church attendance today happens, in part, because we have chosen to believe the myth that the youth are our future. They are not....

6 Fun Ways to Get Youth Actively Involved in the Church Body