Want to know what Director of Lifeway Student Ministry Ben Trueblood is reading?
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David Briggs - The No. 1 Reason Teens Keep the Faith as Young Adults
"Parents set a kind of glass ceiling of religious commitment, above which their children rarely rise” ...
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3 Keys To A Successful Relationship With Your Pastor
Keys to Serving Your Pastor Best
I like pastors. I like pastors a lot. I think pastors have an incredible role to play in the Kingdom of God and it is a hard role/calling to fulfill. In the spirit of full disclosure, I am a pastor’s kid. I have a little understanding of what goes on “behind the ...
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5 Goals You Should Set In Student Ministry
I hope that you are in the practice of setting goals in your ministry. Setting goals can be an important tool for strategy, growth, and evaluation, as well as for your own personal and spiritual development. Last week I posted a link to this article from Eric Geiger on the importance of leading with ...
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Why Reality TV Still Exists (and Why it Matters to your Student Ministry)
The following post was written by Chris Swain, Director of Lifeway Student Ministry Publishing
I am sick of reality TV shows. It seems to me that they have run their course and every new iteration is just another version of what has come before. And yet they keep rolling them out. Perhaps I am ...
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Pranking Will Damage Your Ministry
I don’t understand why students pranking each other seems to be part of every student ministry at one point or another. In my own student ministries it has tried to rear its ugly head, and from talking with many student pastors over the years, I know you deal with this issue as well.
As the ...
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Parent Ministry: Developing Adult Leaders (Part 4)
Student ministry is hard work and to do it effectively takes many hours of prayer, Bible study, strategy, organization and relationship building. This is one reason why student pastors may decide to be minimally involved in parent ministry.
The argument is that student ministry is about the ...
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6 Ways to Win on the School Campus
For student ministries across the country the season is changing. Busy summers are turning into, what I hope, is an even busier fall. Not because of the amount of events or travel time -- and not busier just for the sake of busyness. No one wants that. Instead, your fall season should be busier ...
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3 Youth Ministry Books You Need to Read
As a leader, an important discipline for your life is reading. It's a key to your growth and your effectiveness. It's also a discipline that many people don't have. Early on in ministry my leadership was hindered because I didn't value the discipline of reading. I'm not the only one who has made ...
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At Home in God’s Word
Biblical illiteracy is an increasing trend. It should be alarming to you as a student pastor. As a student pastor it's alarming to me. Too many students are graduating from our ministries with the Bible still feeling awkward in their hands. In Colossians 3:16 Paul encourages the believers to “let ...
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Element #1 of a Healthy Student Ministry: Kingdom Expanding
Healthy student ministries are kingdom expanding. They are evangelistic. In a healthy student ministry there will be students who meet Jesus and are rescued from their sin. We have all heard this statement before: “The majority of people who meet Jesus do so before they graduate high school.” We ...
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