Archive for the ‘culture’ Category

Tip #99: Now Showing

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

One of the most frequent youth ministry dilemmas (and nightmares) is deciding what constitutes an appropriate movie to see with youth or show at a youth gathering.  This will vary, obviously, depending upon the ages of the students and what level of fill-in-the-blank-potential-pitfall is acceptable to you, youth and parents. Well ...

Tip #98: Watch your language

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

We live in a culture where students are used to seeing words that they can't define, and they don't really care that they don't know them.  This is true in school and it's true as they listen to your teaching and read Scripture. How can we help students grasp important meaning ...

Tip #129: Keep Current

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Keep current! Do whatever it's going to take for you to keep in touch with culture.  Subscribe to a million blogs, get a Facebook, subscribe to the magazines your students do, watch what they are watching. If you think you are with it test yourself by asking students for ...