How can you help your youth understand the concept of justifying grace? Scot Hoeksema explains a way to grasp this transformative truth.
We need to do more than finding a warm body to fill a position. Scot Hoeksema shares wisdom on different leadership types and how they work together to achieve a purpose.
In Wesleyan streams of faith, we hear about prevenient grace all the time. But, what does it mean? Jeremy Steele provides an easy-to-understand explanation of how God gives us light so we can see how to follow Him.
Jesus often used everyday things people could relate to in order to teach kingdom principles. Jeremy Steele shares what The Amazing Race can teach us about salvation.
There are many stages in life when we would really like to be able to look ahead and know the twists and turns life will take. Adults start asking “What do you want to be?” or “What do you plan to do with your life?” For those active in the church whether in youth groups or more, God would seem to be the best place to find the answers. This is true… up to a point.
Can you fit 31,173 verses into 45 seconds? In this game, youth must arrange 11 images (+/-) to tell the Bible story from Genesis to Revelation by placing the images in the correct order.
We need to ask ourselves, “What is of critical importance that I should teach these precious youth in the few years I have with them?” There are many possible answers to this question.
We are all challenged with a great many ministry opportunities, meetings, readings, and the every now and again crisis or two. This can easily lead to a place where no long term planning takes place, we are just too busy trying to care of the immediate.
It happens to the best of us sooner or later. Sometimes it is our decision made willingly, other times forces and circumstances beyond our control propel us. I am, of course, talking about leaving. Your leaving will be stressful for the youth. If you care about them, do what you can to minimize this stress.
In the old Frankenstein movies, even after the creature was completely assembled by Dr. Frankenstein it needed a jolt of energy from a lightning bolt captured from the storm raging outside. Here are three of my top lightning bolts that every youth ministry should be passing on to our students.
We are your people and you will always be one of us. When you rejoice, we will rejoice. When you grieve, we will grieve with you
When you are weary and burdened, we will listen and encourage.
