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A Father’s Love – Pastor Tullian Tchividjian

Taken from The Gospel Coalition – A Father’s Love When I was 16, my parents kicked me out of the house. They had tried everything. Nothing worked. And it got…

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As God Directs

Michele is a mother with a passion for Jesus and seeing students come to know Jesus and uses her gift in drama to communicate the gospel to students. But this…

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Have you ever wanted to walk away from life?

I did; and in the process, I walked to new life. Life almost never turns out the way we planned. Instead, everything depends on how we react to the twists…

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Guest Post: Water World Day – Patti Gibbons

There are a lot of causes competing for our attention, especially as youth workers. Proof is in the inbox (or social media timeline) full of pleas, advertisements, and potential events…

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Developing A Strategy for Youth Ministry – S.M.C,

When you Google, Bing or Yahoo “youth ministry” you’ll get thousands of resources available right at your finger tips. Over the past week I have been looking over and reviewing…

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Rural Youth Ministry: Thriving Where You’re Planted

When you think of youth ministry do you think about the smaller churches in rural America? I think many of us, if we were to think about it (those who…

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4 Big Excuses Youth Workers Make – SMC

For the past week I have following, reading and commenting on a new website called Student Ministry Central. It’s run by a colleague in ministry that I met briefly several…

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Firestorm Ministry: When God Takes the Stage

One of the things I enjoy about Twitter more than Facebook are the people I meet. Recently I’ve had the privilege of meeting, via Twitter and my writings for the…

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Confession: My Facebook Habits

Google, health effects of Facebook and you’ll get a list of resources, all of which will give you a different opinion or idea based on the research they did. For the purpose…

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Lent: What Does it Mean to You?

In a couple days, this Wednesday to be exact, many will be observing the season of Lent. Personally, I’ve never observed Lent as growing up in a Baptist church it…

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Are You A Garbage Picker?

When you were a kid did your mom catch you picking through the garbage? I know, strange question, but I have seen this before. A toddler crawling towards a trash…