Friday Review (9/11/26)
This week’s best articles for youth workers on biblical and theological studies, youth and pastoral ministry, partnering with parents, and cultural engagement.
How I’m Teaching the Psalms
The Psalms cover the entire range of human emotion, and they can model how to express our feelings, while learning to trust God even when navigating difficult circumstances. Here’s how I’m teaching them to youth.
Friday Review: August 2026
This month’s best articles for youth workers on biblical and theological studies, youth and pastoral ministry, partnering with parents, and cultural engagement.
How I’m Teaching Students About Discipleship
To avoid putting vague challenges before students to “become disciples”, I decided to kick off our fall semester digging into what it means to follow Christ in every area of their life.
Teaching Theologically in an AI World
Using AI to prepare your message can increase efficiency, but what does it cost you? It might help us write better messages, but we’ll become worse theologians. Is that worth it?
Harboring a Savior Complex
It’s easy to fall prey to the superhero myth—that it’s all on us to do what needs to be done. This is extremely tempting in smaller churches where you may serve as the lone youth leader with only a handful of volunteers.
Why Pray if God Will Do What He Wants?
This chapter from Discover addresses a common question that many teenagers ask: “Why bother praying if God will do what he wants anyways?”
Growing Teenage Disciples
In this excerpt from Youth Ministry and the Vine, Kyle Hoffsmith addresses the danger of measuring attendance as the measure of success.
Friday Review: July 2026
This month’s best articles for youth workers on biblical and theological studies, youth and pastoral ministry, partnering with parents, and cultural engagement.
Youth Pastor as Shepherd
After twenty years in some form of youth ministry leadership, I've grown more convinced that the basics of shepherding should be the priority.