How can it be that teens can watch a Lord of the Rings marathon without yawning but seem to fall asleep after the introduction of your talk?

The hard faith journey does not end with the completion of eighth grade. The larger percentage of students own a personal faith during the middle school year, but the final steps of solidifying belief often happen in the first six months of the freshman year. The things they have begun to believe will be challenged immediately in high school.

When you say yes to becoming more you—yes to the finding—you’re saying yes to the God who mixed only one you for a life full of freedom. Find that life. Find that you. Find that peace.

"I cannot wait to have that difficult conversation with that friend of mine, the one where I have to tell him how much he's upset me. It's gonna be the highlight of my week. I just love confrontation!" I be...

When entertaining our students becomes the purpose of our ministries, we not only have abandoned our mission, but we have abandoned our students.

In most junior and senior high schools, students are dieting even though, on average, they are not overweight. "I always wanted to be the good girl. Good girls are skinny and happy. The bad girls are the fat ones," answered an eleven-year-old when asked why she starved herself to the point of hospitalization.

Put a 9-year-old girl in front of a mirror and ask her to describe herself. Her description most likely will be limited to two categories: physical characteristics she sees ("I have black hair and green eyes. I...

We can't make the relationships happen, but we can create environments where God can draw people together for those lifelong friendships to be created.

If you have a large vacant wall in your church, gymnasium or youth room, "Wall Ball" can be a fun option on a rainy day. Begin by creating a masking tape grid on the wall (either like-sized squares or of differ...

pressed them, “And how about you? Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter said, “You’re the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus came back, “God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn...