iPhone and iPod Parental Controls

Tired of finding parental advisory lyrics on your child’s iPod and you were never advised?  Want to help your students help resist pornography or offensive music for their mp3 player?  Going on a mission trip and want your students to listen to just Christian music for a week?  This should help answer these questions:
Parental Control Setup

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Developing Student Leadership

Developing student leaders should be at the heart of every youth/student ministry.  Is our goal to produce luke-warm, back-row sitting, come to church when I feel like it, non-involved members of the next generation of churches?  Absolutely not, we, as youth ministers and leaders, seek to produce outspoken, servant-driven, equipped for ministry, God-loving, constantly growing [...]

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Teens Texting and Driving

What do you think of this picture?  Think it is posed?  Take a gander at the speedometer.  Still don’t believe me?  Click on the picture to read the article.
Here some interesting data for you.  According to a recent study by the American Automobile Association, the risk of a car accident increases by 50% for people [...]

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God has a sense of humor…but can we say He is a baseball fan?

When things like this happen, I just imagine the Lord saying, watch this!
Amazing Double Play
What are the chances?
Kinda random, I know.  Just thought I would share in case you missed it on SportsCenter.
Seriously though, look at Scripture.  God shows His power in so many ways that only can be explained that “God allowed that to [...]

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What makes a successful mission trip?

Next week our mission team departs for a mission trip to Kentucky to work in a youth camp and conduct a VBS for the local community.  As the trip gets closer, I keep thinking and praying:  What makes this trip successful?

If we make it through the VBS without anyone electrocuting themselves or a kid walking [...]

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Are You a God Salesman?

If you were selling to God to your students, would any of them want to buy?  If this was a retail business, would you be recieving any commission, or even worse, would you get fired for your lack of productivity?
Now I realize that ministry is not all about numbers…but how many new customers have you [...]

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Should a Youth Pastor be Ordained?

Good question.  Should an assistant pastor, student pastor, youth pastor…or whatever title you have at your church….be ordained?  Depends on how serious you take that position – Do you view the youth pastor as a less important member of the staff?  Is he the junior to the senior pastor?  Or maybe your thoughts are that [...]

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Youth/Student Ministry Book Reviews

Sustainable Youth Ministry  by Mark DeVries
Imagine the game “Who Wants to Be a Youth Worker?”, where you could phone a friend or use a lifeline whenever you don’t know the answers in your ministry.  Well, ministry isn’t a game, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a lifeline.  Sustainable Youth Ministry is that lifeline.  [...]

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Katie Perry & Today’s Teenager

I’m not trying to cause this pop star more heartache, as that famous sign did.  However, much can be learned from Katie Perry’s experiences and where youth culture has been headed for the last 50 years. 
We know from the studies and surveys that young people are leaving the church.  Katie Perry, who used to be a [...]

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Child-Like Faith

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