Are you as religious as your parents?Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened: Youth just aren't as religious as they used to be. That's the conclusion of a ra...

More than 30 years ago, one of my best friends, Kyle, dropped a bombshell that left me reeling. He told me he was gay.At the time, I was a young, full-time youth pastor doing ministry in a cultural environment ...

Divide into teams of two or three. Each group gets a chair, a water balloon, shaving cream, and a razor. One member of the team sits in a chair -- with a large water balloon on his or her head. The partner(s) c...

From serialyouthpastor.com:   "I always find it interesting the spiritual allegories we find in movies. Sometimes it's a stretch to name them allegories but sometimes they just jump off the screen at ...

In the weeks leading up to the release of blockbuster Iron Man 2, several youth workers started passing around this parody of the original Iron Man from Figment Films: After being kidnapped by terrorists, cloth...

We asked your fellow youth workers, "When a young person approaches you with an issue beyond your expertise, what do you do?" Here's how they answered: Elizabeth Towns: "Pray, find a trusted expert, and move ...

Ages before there was David Crowrder Band or the Passion conferences, a British band named Delirious? changed the way we worship with songs such as "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever" and "Did You Feel the Moun...

We call our church "Scum of the Earth." That's really our name.Why would we use this name for our church? I always tell people, "It's not that we're doing church differently—we're just doing church with d...

For centuries, faithful men and women have journeyed together on pilgrimage to sacred places. Today, journeys to sacred places or quests made sacred by their purpose allow people to connect with God in ways not...

How many times have you asked a student, "How are you doing spiritually?" How many times has a student responded, "I'm doing OK—I mean, I haven't been reading my Bible as much as I'd like…" Do you see...