Welcome to the beginning of another year, and the perfect time to hit the reset button on some weekly practices that will help you maximize your leadership and stay organized throughout the year. Please don’t think of these as the standard New Year’s resolution plans, but rather a set of practices ...
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Event Planning Made Simple
There are ten million details that go into planning an event, and if we’re being honest, it is one of the most stressful parts about working and serving in student ministry. In fact, the amount of time we spend planning and creating would probably far surpass the amount of time we spend with ...
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Difficult Topics, Devos, and Daily Time with God
Have you ever had one of those teachers that didn’t like for students to ask questions? Maybe they didn’t want to slow down their lecture or they didn’t have the humility to gasp that someone might not understand what they’re teaching. Regardless, when a hand went up, they weren’t too keen on ...
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Helping Students Navigate a Difficult Holiday Season
Welcome to December 2020. The last month of this calendar year and the advent of a new year. Before you finish your Christmas shopping or savor your cider with a movie, pause and do one more scan of your ministry. For some of your students, this is not the most wonderful time of the year.
I saw ...
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The Challenge of Joy
Maybe you’re in a place in life where you find it’s difficult to experience joy. It doesn’t make you a bad student pastor—it makes you a person. It's for us to have moments of joylessness, otherwise the Scriptures wouldn’t speak so frequently: urging us to have joy, and reminding us that it is there ...
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5 Inexpensive Ways To Show Big Gratitude To Volunteer Youth Ministry Leaders
Practicing gratitude is not just a spiritual discipline we should teach to our students; we should also show it to our leaders.
For those who show up to help in a variety of ways, here are some awesome and fairly inexpensive ways to say and show you really care.
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Thankful for 2020?
Let’s be honest, you’re probably tired of hearing how “hard” of a season this is. Even if you haven’t experienced personal hardship in the midst of this pandemic, you are connected to people who have, and you’ve encountered changes to your ministry, work, and home environments that have presented ...
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The Impact of True Love Waits in the Philippines
The following post was written by Derek Ross, a missionary to the Philippines, and National Director for True Love Waits Philippines. Derek has been sharing hope in Christ by using the message of True Love Waits.
I acknowledged that Jesus Christ died for the forgiveness of my sins at Indian ...
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Sexual purity—an impossible standard?
The following post is an excerpt from Chasing Love, an upcoming Bible study from Dr. Sean McDowell and True Love Waits.
You may think it's impossible to remain sexually pure in our sex-saturated world—that’s understandable. But here’s the bottom line: You can do it. Yes, you can follow God’s ...
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Trust and Love: an Excerpt from the newest True Love Waits study
The following post is an excerpt from Chasing Love, an upcoming Bible study from Dr. Sean McDowell and True Love Waits.
Here’s the truth: God loves us because of who He is, not because of anything we did. Jesus didn’t require us to repent before He laid down His life for us. He didn't die for ...
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