The BackdropSteve Jobs. Ludwig van Beethoven. Lebron James.Recognize those names? I'm thinking so.How about Julius Lilienfeld? Bartolomeo Cristofori? James Naismith? Recognize those names?I'm thinking not so mu...

Forty percent of children in the United States will go to bed tonight in a home without a father. The senior pastor of LifeChange Christian Church in Portland, Ore., explains how to address the consequences of ...

When leaders fall, ministries can be devastated. Moral failure is part of human nature, but misconduct by church and parachurch leaders can leave a lasting and bitter legacy among adults and youth who experienc...

Fill in the blank: In this world you will have ____________.I suspect you know the word: Trouble (or tribulation, depending on the translation in your head). I also suspect you know who spoke those words: Jesus...

I've been in youth ministry for 30 years, but my preferred role is being the mom to a bunch of now-grown adults.When they were teens, you could have called them juvenile delinquents; but juvenile delinquents is...

Every year, 1.1 million teens attempt suicide, 750,000 teens are victims of violent crime, 600,000 unwed teen girls get pregnant, and 291,000 teens drop out of school.In addition, 4.1 million teens drink alcoho...

One of the givens of being a youth pastor (in addition to the consumption of a good deal of pizza and the never-ending supply of free T-shirts) is that you probably will be asked to officiate at a fair number o...

Some years ago, Barbara came to see me for counseling. For as long as she could remember, her parents had argued and fought; and in her teens, each parent would pour out their problems to her with little awaren...

Kevin had been a friend a co-laborer for many years; but he suddenly seemed pensive, which was much different from the outgoing person I had known for years. I invited him to lunch where he began to unpack some...

Matt and Amy pause—often—when they tell the story of unsuccessfully managing their daughter Kayla's depression. After years of exasperation, Matt finally walked into Kayla's room holding a suitcase....