Pay Youth Pastors More!

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Should Youth Pastors be paid more than CEOs, Doctors, Lawyers and other professionals?  I’m sure if you’re a Youth Pastor, you might think so.  Consider the following thoughts just for fun.
Doctors deal with the health of the body.  The body is only temporary and thus their impact can only be temporary.
CEOs (no matter the size of the [...]


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Why Haitian Teens Really Follow Christ?

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LESSON FOR STUDENT MINISTRY FROM HAITI
We may have much to learn about Leading Someone to Christ from Haitian pastors. Two summers ago, I led a group of teenagers on a mission trip to Haiti. The group included my 14-year old (at the time) daughter and my wife.
One night we showed the Jesus movie in [...]


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Reaching every one of 2766 teens enrolled in DeKalb/Sycamore High Schools

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Reaching every one of 2766 teens enrolled in DeKalb/Sycamore High Schools might sound like an impossible task, but impossible tasks are exciting!

You see, we follow this guy named Jesus who said in Matthew 19:26, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”


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Burn the Youth Room

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Youth pastors need to stop playing youth room idol. A pimped out youth room does not determine the health of a youth group. Pimped out youth rooms are very similar to cosmetic surgery.


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15 Signs A Church Is In Trouble

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#7 – There is a loss of a sense of urgency! (Hell is no longer hot, sin is no longer wrong and the cross is no longer important!)


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BackYard Youth Ministry

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How do you expose your students to God so they develop a hunger for Jesus can take over their life?
Not by talking.


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Students Reaching Students for Christ

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The co-authors visited 24 different youth ministries across the United States and interviewed 400 teenagers to find out what they were doing to effectively reach young people for Christ.

“When we talk about students reaching their friends for Christ, stories either drift to the extraordinarily gifted young people who are favored by the Holy Spirit to do something revival-esque (inspir…es us) or they describe almost mechanical approaches to developing student leaders that cut everyone from the same cookie cutter mold,” Rahn wrote on the book’s Facebook page. “This book offers original research to get at reality and paints biblical boundaries for empowering students that should anchor and unleash us.”


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365 Days to Change the World

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Starting in 2010….An ordinary girl makes a resolution.
Talk to 365 complete strangers
In the space of 365 days
About the extraordinary figure
That is Jesus.


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Confession of a Student Revolutionary

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I want to appologize to all of you. Im not the person you all think I am. Im not a great Christian guy and Im no leader. I have failed you all in a sense but more importantly I’ve failed God.
What happened to the revolution we were supposed to start? Did we forget? Did I forget?


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God’s Word Kicked out of School

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Check out this article about what happened in Wilson Country, Tennessee.
Do you think Public Schools should allow God’s Word?
Do you think the ruling in Wilson County was fair?


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