Making Your Church and Group Secure

We hear about these tragedies with increasing frequency. Someone walks into a church and starts shooting. The results can be death, injury and mayhem. An organization called the Christian Security Network wants...

Help Me Help You

That's what uber-agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) told pro-football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) in the film Jerry Maguire. Now we're saying it to you. We need your help to make an upcoming issue of Yo...

Keeping your Focus

From Rantings of a Youth Pastor: "When it comes to ministry there are often people, places or things that will pop up to pull our attention away from direction God has pointed us. So often in ministry we ...

Youth Culture Lesson: Of Grief and God

The Lovely Bones Explores Death and Heaven Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/Disclaimer What Happened:On Jan. 22, 2010, Director Peter Jackson's new film The Lovely Bones wil...

Got Controversy?

Nutritionists give chocolate milk thumbs down, Black Youth Project launches a forum, more. Got Controversy? -- What could be better than a glass of chocolate milk? Lots of things, according to some nutrition...

The Book of James – Overview

Study of the Book of James - Overview Introduction In our virtual reality world, truth can be hard to come by. So many distractions and deceptions vie for our attention that we can sometimes find ourselv...

Hearing God’s Call

Youth Bible Study: Hearing God's Call (Genesis 12)Our friends at InterVarsity Press have opened up their Bible study vaults so we can make sample studies available to you from their vast library of Bible study ...

Strategic Discipleship

A while back in my ministry, I had a group of students that just doesn't come along very often—seven or eight senior guys who really seemed like they wanted to grow. They were from strong families and had...