I have a weird piece of advice for you. Be lazy. Okay - of course I don’t mean like legit lazy. There are 10% of you that might actually be lazy, and you people need to get off your butts and get to work. ...

Sometimes our jobs in youth ministry seem close to impossible. Most of us assume we're given these young people with fragile faith. Someone, somehow, has communicated to us in some indirect way that it ...

Poet Henry David Thoreau wrote, "Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."

Place is such an important thing for students. Community often defines friendship and spiritual formation.

The role-playing adventure game The Aetherlight taps into a power as old as the Bible to teach players eternal truths “Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them...

You can plan all you want, and you should, but you also need to remember that life is more important than your plans.

Parents of teenagers have a good amount of experience with teenagers, more so than the young adults who's only reference is that they vaguely remember what it was like being a teenager themselves.

We all look for new ways to infuse creativity into our youth ministries. The fact is, our creative well can dry out and we struggle for ways to make the student ministry fresh.

Middle schoolers are my favorite group of people—they make the best theologians, but they are also the worst-behaved.

We’ve all experienced times of s-l-o-w-n-e-s-s. The Scriptures uses a particular language, terms that are deemed necessary during times of delays. Waiting.