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Friday, September 5th, 2008
This may seem overly simplistic but you need to say "thank you" a lot in youth ministry. Youth Worker Appreciation Day reminds us that we should thank our volunteers and paid youth workers. But you also have other people to say thank you to. Start with the parents of the ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Youth ministry is definitely in the action and adventure genre, especially during school breaks and vacations. There is a need (or is it a temptation?) to pack those times where students are available full of activities. I understand; I've done it too. I wonder, though, if the whirlwind schedule of ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
You know the preaching adage "more is caught than taught"? Of course you do, and you know that the truth in it is that our own children and our students won't take on a practice they don't see us living.
Go get caught! Get caught by your students studying the Word ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Live and learn, the saying goes, implying that it is life's experiences which are humanity's best teacher. If you've spent much time as a youth minister, you know that there is some truth to that saying; but you also know that there is more to learning than experiencing. Digging into ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
You're putting together a lesson or a sermon and you dig out a resource or curriculum to tweak, maybe even a book you've recently read to pull a quote from, and you think to yourself, "I used this somewhere before, where was that?" Been there? Yeah, me too, and ...
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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 ...
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