Youth Ministry Archives

In a real sense, big-time sports represent America’s new civic religion, and football is its central sacrament.

Do not give parents the idea that the church does everything for their child’s spiritual development.

As we recognize ‘National Adoption Month,’ thousands of teens in the U.S. need a home. How will you help care for them?

You don’t need gimmicks at all to minister successfully to teens. You simply need to focus on communicating God’s grace.

I have heard many, including dyed-in-the-wool secularists, say that her performance at the 2013 MTV VMAs was "unbelievable” and "shocking."

Say yes to all Jesus has for you. Say yes to being in over your head, not knowing answers, not feeling safe, and the blessings that follow.

Troy University in Alabama is facing verbal and perhaps legal challenges from the Freedom from Religion Foundation over its new "faith-based" dorm...

While we don't have a ton of college students, the largest percentage of our growth at Redeemer comes from the millennial generation. Here's what...

No matter how good you design a church service to be, if the children's ministry is bad, people won't come back - unless they're folks without...

A new study suggests that boys exposed to familial violence become increasingly aggressive toward their peers at school.

Deep youth workers do deep youth ministry - including being well-read - which yields deep kids.

If you want to see teenagers develop lifelong, incomparably intimate relationships with Jesus that can survive past high school, stop assuming you...

I am about to enter into a volatile subject. Not abortion or same-sex marriage. I want to talk about parents, sports and the church.

After reading More Than a Carpenter, the resurrection seemed reasonable. There were 4 issues that particularly struck me, and continue to make...

Good questions are powerful things. Those with kids already know what I'm talking about.