Milk and Cookies vs. Meat and Potatoes

Give a youth pastor five sticks and a bag of marshmallows and students will be entertained for hours. Need an activity that teaches teamwork? Ask a youth pastor. Cool games, cool music, and cool church are the ...

Unorthodox

Zondervan, 2007, 190 pp., $16.99,  www.zondervan.com For those who think that Stephen Curtis Chapman is cutting-edge, Tommy Kyllonen has a rude surprise. Kyllonen is a musician and pastor of Crossover Com...

Taking Youth Ministry Deeper

Meet the Roundtable: DALLAS WILLARD describes spiritual growth as an“increased consistent character and power for goodness.” On the flip side is what Willard calls spiritual drift. “Unless we...

Deploying Youth Ministry

Zach Johnson found his mother in the living room, sitting on the couch in front of the TV. Iraq was in the news again, and tears were running down her cheeks. Zach didn’t know what to say. He knew she m...

How is truth true?

A few years ago I walked into class of undergraduates in Boston a moment before it was to begin and picked up the book I was using for instruction that day. It was not the typical textbook—it was a book ...