Spiritual Maturity and Spiritual Dependence
While maturity in our culture is often marked by increased independence, spiritual maturity has a different aim altogether.
Reclaiming Tolerance
Tolerance has become the golden rule for GenZ. Youth workers and parents can be tempted to either fall in line with worldly tolerance, or they can reject tolerance itself as an unChristian option. Instead, let’s reclaim tolerance as an expression of Christian love.
Book Review: The Death of Porn, by Ray Ortlund
Ray Orlund’s new book is a blessing to youth workers who are trying to help students overcome sexual temptation. Rather than coddling students or berating them into self-discipline, Ortlund rightly lifts the reader’s eyes to behold Jesus.
Learning from Bonhoeffer about Preaching
The following quotations (and reflections on them) highlight some preaching insight to help youth workers learn from Dietrich Bonhoeffer about proclaiming the Word to teenagers.
Evangelizing GenZ
The gospel doesn’t change, but people do. Gone are the days where those who seek to evangelize GenZ can assume a religious background.
Is the Trinity Essential for Salvation?
The Trinity is essential to salvation because it’s the foundational truth that Christianity is built upon. It drives at the question, “Who is God?” Consider what others have said throughout church history.
The Ten Commandments: Law & Gospel in Action
In this post, we put Law & Gospel into action by considering what the Ten Commandments mean for Christians and how to teach them in a way that leads students to Jesus.
Teaching the Trinity to Students
Teaching the Trinity is crucial, but it’s also the most complicated topic in Christianity. Here are a few core components of faithfully teaching the Trinity to students.
Law & Gospel in Youth Ministry
Youth workers who rightly understand Law & Gospel proclaim the gospel at all times, and use the Law to call students to repentance and faithfulness while keeping the gospel front-and-center at all times.
Youth Ministry and Student Leadership
The Apostle Paul said pastoral ministry should “equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ” (Eph. 4:12). Discipleship, then, must involve some measure of equipping students for ministry.