Next to choosing the location and partnering organization for a mission trip, leadership selection ranks as most important. Leaders make or break the mission experience. Pastors desperate for a chaperone will s...

In the past, you've heard me mention accountability as being a necessary element in the whole SAD approach to accomplishing a goal—SAD, of course, being Standard, Accountability and Discipline.The standar...

On my first night attending a youth group, I think I expected something to do with religious instruction. I thought they would talk about the Bible or virtue or something. Whatever I expected to find, I'm sure ...

I lost my son during his freshman year of high school. This realization has been a slow and painful process—one that my wife and I have struggled to accept. Prior to my son's 17th birthday, we came to the...

Our students want to change the world. They want to be part of something and find meaning in their lives. Yet the faith of many of today's teens is lacking depth and often disintegrates after high school. In...

Truth: I prayed almost every Wednesday that he wouldn't come to youth group that night. I know that is a pretty lame thing for a youth pastor to think and feel, but I thought I'd start this article out being re...

Parents Turn in Daughter for Rioting. Did They Go Too Far?Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:Chelsea Ives was supposed to be one of the faces of London d...

Mom and Dad may make the money, but it's the kids who decide how to spend it. According to James McNeal, a marketing consultant and author of Kids as Consumers: A Handbook of Marketing to Children, youngsters i...

With much of the world facing what could be another recession, some experts are saying children are perhaps the biggest victims of economic turmoil. About 42 percent of children in the United States are now liv...

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