Mike McGarry 6/10/25 Mike McGarry 6/10/25

ep.106: What NOT to do in Your First Year

In this podcast, Mike and John each offer 5 things NOT to do in your first year of youth ministry.

Mike McGarry 5/27/25 Mike McGarry 5/27/25

ep.104: Asking Good Questions, Chat GPT, Engaging Students with Scripture

YPT Podcast ep.104 covers how to ask good questions, whether or not youth workers should use ChatGPT and AI, and how to engage youth with Scripture.

Mike McGarry 5/20/25 Mike McGarry 5/20/25

YPT Podcast ep.103: Student Leadership, Book Recommendations, & Time Wasters

ep.103 of the YPT Podcast, featuring a conversation about Student leadership, Mike and John’s book recommendations, and a listener question about time wasters.

Mike McGarry 5/13/25 Mike McGarry 5/13/25

ep.102: Missions Trips & Discouraged Youth Pastors

ep.102 of the YPT Podcast features a conversation about short-term missions, gospel ministry, discouragement, and training volunteer leaders.

Mike McGarry 5/6/25 Mike McGarry 5/6/25

ep.101: Podcast revamp, Our Ministry Journeys, D.Mins. and Spouses in Youth Ministry

Introducing a whole new YPT Podcast! In this episode, we introduce you to John Gardner, Mike’s new cohost and we share about our youth ministry journeys, experiences pursuing our D.Min.’s, and answer a question about spouse involvement in YM.

Mike McGarry 4/15/25 Mike McGarry 4/15/25

ep.100: Revisiting “What is a Youth Pastor Theologian?” (Engle, Hartman, Tufano)

To celebrate the podcast’s 100th episode, Mike welcomes some long-time contributors to discuss what it means to be a Youth Pastor Theologian.

Mike McGarry 4/8/25 Mike McGarry 4/8/25

YPT Podcast ep.99: Equipping Youth to Live with Wisdom (Rich Griffith)

Mike talks with Rich Griffith about the importance of guiding our youth to live with wisdom and discernment, and encouraging them to live with godly courage.

Mike McGarry 4/1/25 Mike McGarry 4/1/25

YPT Podcast ep.98: Building a Culture of Question-Asking in Youth Ministry (Valerie O'Brien)

Teenagers have lots of questions. How do we engage those questions and cultivate a ministry culture where they ask and discuss them with their youth leaders?

Mike McGarry 3/25/25 Mike McGarry 3/25/25

YPT Podcast ep.97: Jesus is Worth It (Chris Morphew)

How do we help youth follow Jesus when life and faith feels confusing? Chris Morphew joins the podcast to share about how to help then discover the following Jesus is Worth It!

Mike McGarry 3/18/25 Mike McGarry 3/18/25

YPT Podcast ep.96: Teaching the Old Testament to Youth (Chelsea Erickson)

Why and how should we teach the Old Testament in youth ministry?