Jordan Riley: You Make Me Better

Last summer, my former pastor was in an accident and should have died. God saved him.He was helping people and tripped and fell of a cliff and hung upside down for two hours in the heat until a random lady...

Trust Walk

Here is a simple but effective trust-building exercise you can use to bring teenagers together. All you need are blindfolds.Begin by asking each teenager to partner with another teen for this game. On...

Youth Group Devo: Wasting Time with Jesus

The BackdropYou've probably heard of the word sabbath, and you may have a good idea of what it means; but as much as that word shows up throughout the Bible, it actually gets very little play in Christian ...

Youth Ministry and the Highly Sensitive Person

I'll never forget going through a PLACE class at a Nashville-area church—certain I would be DISC-assessed and plugged into an appropriate ministry based on my giftedness, preferences, skills and personali...

Youth Culture Lesson: Up, Up and Away!

Man of Steel Shows His MetalGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:Superman flies into movie theaters with the release of Man of Steel, a retelling of the su...

Boost the Curb Appeal of Your Ministry

Have you looked around and noticed how everything is graphically designed these days? Everything—from the magazine covers and ads to TV, Internet and videos has been designed or enhanced through the expan...

Refraining from Drawing a Line in the Sand

Whether I had heard about it from someone else, read about it on a blog or had a nudge from the Spirit as some would say, I was stunned. The vulnerability and honesty was a breath of fresh air. The masks we all...

Reaching the Interconnected Disconnected

Earlier this year, during a TV interview ("The Harvest Show") to promote my book You, Your Family and the Internet, I joked about parents texting their children that dinner was ready. We all had a laugh, though...

How the Web Robs Us of Story

Reading it made my blood boil.You see, I'm in marketing. It's my job to get people to attend Word of Life Camps. I do this most often by assembling short, punchy paragraphs and compelling bullet lists. I make o...

Making Social Media Work for Youth Workers

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