Becoming the Woman God Created You to Be Staci Eldredge David C. Cook, 2014, 224 pp., $12.44 In a world where feeling beautiful, loved and worthy seems to be a daily challenge for teenage girls, Staci El...

Teens Put Away Their Smartphones for a Week…and Survive Get downloadable PDF. Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation. About/Disclaimer What Happened You belong to the first generation n...

Holy wow. It can be elusive and hard to define, but you know it when you see it…or feel it…or touch it. It's those wow moments in Scripture that bring pause, when truth reaches past your prot...

Gillian Share-Raab is the kind of thoughtful high school student we all should be trying to create in our ministries. While I have no idea about her faith orientation, she models good thinking. Gillian, a stude...

This is an old game that always can be given contemporary twists. Arrange to take your group to a mystery destination. You, of course, know the destination, but the youth will not know until arrival. Popular de...

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The first hymn I learned proclaims, "Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee, how great thou art, how great thou art." In the course of my Christian life, I have come to see that it's hard to sing that ch...

Jesus was recognized universally as a teacher. Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, called Him "a teacher from God." Inquiring about eternal life, the rich young ruler addressed Jesus as Teacher (Matt. 19:16)....

I was 20 years old with half of a Bible degree, yet I was madly in love with God and believed I was called to minister to students. I took my first youth director position at a small church in my Missouri c...

"Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness" (James 3:1). I was 17 when I decided to become a pastor. I had spent my high...