I remember sitting in my first week of theology classes as an undergrad at Biola University. I was hearing many new terms such as propitiation, infallibility and incarnation, but the concepts were familiar. I...

I recognized the Elvis impersonator. He was my father-in-law.

If you have children now or in the future, there will come a time when they grow into teenagers, and the transition from cool youth worker to parent of a teen becomes painfully real. It was for me.

What's the best way to lead a short-term missions project with students?

Every church is filled with people who have had to learn to be organized. Become their student while you learn to be a better administrator.

God does not call us to competition, but to obedience and collaboration. If we are concerned about the competition, maybe we first need to examine whether we are currently in obedience to what God has asked of us.

For the past several years, I have been hosting improvisational gatherings for youth ministers called Youth Specialties UnConferences. We held 12 events this past spring. They are the opposite of almost any oth...

For most of my life, the idea of being adventurous was almost synonymous with being a disciple of Christ. Who else would drop their nets and follow someone they barely knew? Peter did, and although he sank,...

When most of us begin our journeys as youth ministers, we typically don't have children ourselves. I, too, jumped into youth ministry at the ripe age of 21 and single. I thought I knew a lot about being a teen ...

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