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For Youth Leaders
New Year’s Resolutions—From Good Intentions to Reality
With just a few days left in 2017, I’ve been thinking of the New Year’s resolutions that I want to work on in my own life in 2018. I want to spend more alone time with God every day. I want to write my friends and family more letters. I want to take time to […]
How to Help Students Learn to Be Wise
Our students live in an age where information comes at them like a firehose. Every day, Google’s search engine is tapped 6 billion times. Facebook messages are posted 4.3 billion times. Four million hours of content are uploaded to YouTube. Each day. If your teenagers can ask Siri anything…why do they need you, their fearless […]
How to Gospelize Transformers: The Last Knight
The Transformers sci-fi autobots’ unstoppable CGI saga will once again invade a theatre near you this summer. The latest installment of this blockbuster franchise, Transformers: The Last Knight, centers on destruction (surprise, surprise!) and redemption. And this time, the key to saving the future lies buried in the past. Humans and transformers are at war and the unfolding adventure yields a colossal struggle between good and evil. The last, great […]
8 Great Summer Outreach Ideas
Ahhh…Summer! The sweet, lazy, dog days of summer are just around the corner. Why do we call them “dog days”? Is it because dogs (and teenagers) tend to lie around in the summer heat doing as little as possible? As a youth leader, it’s all too easy to inadvertently fall into a pattern of slacking […]
How to Gospelize Pirates of the Caribbean
Captain Jack is back! The hugely successful Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise has once again hit the theaters with #5: Dead Men Tell No Tales. So why not use the occasion to host a youth group movie night sometime this summer and pop in the DVD of one of the earlier classics in this […]
