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| 1. 10 preaching tips from Tony Campolo |
| From Youth Leaders Academy on Thursday, May 23, 2013 @ 1:47 AM PST in the "Blog" Category. When I saw Tony Campolo was leading a preaching master class on the early day of the Youth Work Summit, I immediately booked this stream. He's a brilliant communicator and I was pretty stoked to be able to spend a whole day learning from him. And I have to say: he didn't disappoint. He was [...]You just finished reading 10 preaching tips from Tony Campolo! Have you subscribed to our free biweekly newsletter yet? Read More... |
| 2. Junior 2 week of Camp - Oak Hill Christian Service Camp |
| From Deep Thoughts by Gman on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 @ 11:53 AM PST in the "Blog" Category. I'm going ...how about you?http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/ZioO Read More... |
| 3. Hebrews Sermon Series |
| From Deep Thoughts by Gman on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 @ 11:52 AM PST in the "Blog" Category. http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/ZioO Read More... |
| 4. Youth Worker BOOST: Inside Out |
| From youthministry360 on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 @ 5:45 AM PST in the "Resources" Category. ym360 knows youth workers. We know what an incredibly rewarding, yet incredibly challenging job youth ministry can be. There are days when your spirits are sky-high, and there are days when you could use a bit of a "pick me up" from God's Word . . . That's why we're happy to offerYouth Worker BOOST, one of the many valuable resources on the ym360 Blog.BOOST is a short, weekly piece of encouragement designed to, well, "boost" your spirits and encourage you as you minister to students. We consider it yet another great opportunity to serve you and your ministry.CLICK HERE to have the Youth Worker Boost delivered right to your inbox whenever we publish a new one! We call these the E-BOOST! "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."--2 Timothy 3:16-17Don't you love filling out your bracket for the NCAA Basketball Tournament? If you're like most people, it doesn't take you very long before you realize that your predictions are just awful. What if next year you decided to work from the end of the tourney backwards to the beginning? In other words, pick your national champion and then pick games in reverse all the way back to round number one. Call it your "Backwards Strategy." It couldn't turn out any worse, could it?While the Backwards Strategy might work for your March Madness bracket, it's a crummy way to go about teaching the Bible.Yet, we're all at least a little guilty of it, aren't we? We decide what topic we want to cover then go find the Scripture to back up our point. I believe that Paul would suggest that we should always let our teaching start with scripture. Make sure what you prepare or the material you use has the Bible as the main focus.You may be a great teacher but it is the inspired word of God that is "useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness"Our prayer for you: We pray that you would be empowered to teach your students the Bible in a way that plainly sets forth God's truth. And we pray that you would lead them to apply these truths in a way that is transformational in their lives. Look for a new Youth Worker Boost each Wednesday on the ym360 Blog.Last Week's BOOST: Hello NeighborNext Week's BOOST: You're Not Alone Get more BOOST articles HERE! Read More... |
| 5. How To Effectively Change Up Your Summer Youth Ministry Schedule |
| From YouthWorkTalk.com on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 @ 5:00 AM PST in the "Blog" Category. One of the age-old debates in youth ministry is, "Do we take the summer off?" I have always landed on the side of NO! As a matter of fact just last week I asked some of my students if they would like to have an intentional "leadership" group over the summer. Crickets. Then came the [...]You just finished reading How To Effectively Change Up Your Summer Youth Ministry Schedule! Read More... |
| 6. What young people look for in religion (YWS13 part 2) |
| From Youth Leaders Academy on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 @ 1:27 AM PST in the "Blog" Category. Tony Campolo kicked off the early day of the Youth Work Summit with a general introduction. He quoted Pew research that has discovered three things that young people look for in religion, but usually don't find: Spirituality Authenticity Hopeful eschatology If we want to reach young people with the gospel, if we want our youth [...]You just finished reading What young people look for in religion (YWS13 part 2)! Have you subscribed to our free biweekly newsletter yet? Read More... |
| 7. Interview With Craig Gross |
| From YouthMinistry.com on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 9:56 PM PST in the "Blog" Category. Our longtime friend, Craig Gross, founder of XXXchurch.com has a passion for helping men and women break free from the grip of pornography. XXXchurch.com has helped thousands of people develop a deeper level of personal accountability as well as providing some safeguards for the ever-increasing amount of time they are spending online. It's with this backdrop that Craig wrote his newest book, "Open", which is dedicated to helping people develop a lifestyle of honest, real, accountability with one another. Today, we thought we'd let Craig tell us a little more about this fantastic new book. So, this book is for everyone: male and female, young and old. Why do you think the Christian community, and the world at large, needs this book today? Today we live in a world where people can sit face to face over a meal, but their heads are buried, looking down at their phones, tweeting about what they are eating or who they are with or taking Instagram photos of both. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sex sells. Sex tempts. Sex lies. Sex glorifies. Download Best Sex Ever from Author Doug Fields. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We are connected more than ever, but the surface-ness of those connections often leave us feeling completely disconnected. We share, tweet, and like things online, but not very often do we do those things in real time with real people over real topics that are sometimes heavy. We are not meant to do life alone and the Christian community should encourage people—the rest of the world, really—to try and be open and real and honest with people. Those things are difficult and don't come naturally, so I tried to share some practical ways how to do that in Open and help people see that it not only is it worth it but that it's necessary and doable. Anyone can be open. You've built a ministry and a name around the concept of sexual purity and the dangers of pornography. Why this book, now? Why expand your message to a broader audience? We deal with people who have secrets every day, and at the end of the day secrets will kill you. Secrets will tear apart your family and your relationships. This book is not just about porn and it is not just about secrets and the bad things but rather encouraging people to see that we are better together.read more Read More... |
| 8. Flipping off the Devil |
| From Dare 2 Share Ministries International on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 6:55 PM PST in the "Blog" Category. When I was in the 3rd Grade at Brown Elementary School I put my faith in Jesus. From that moment on I knew that I had a loving Savior, a Heavenly Father and a mortal enemy. Jesus became my obsession and Satan became my nemesis. I knew from early on I wanted to spend the rest of my life serving Jesus and ticking off Satan. One time while walking down the hallway of Brown Elementary on the way to class I started thinking about how much I hated Satan for having kept my mom, and much of my family, spiritually captive for so long. I started thinking how he had blinded my eyes to the light of the gospel for nine "whole" years. I reflected on the damage he had helped to bring about in my own high-crime rate neighborhood. When my mom turned on the news during dinner, I thought about the violence, crime and sin Satan was triggering and reveling in, not only in my family and neighborhood, but in the world at large. As I walked down the hallway thinking all that Satan had done to destroy the world and my family I did what any 3rd Grade Christian young man would do, I flipped off the devil. In my mind I was simply giving the devil his due...double birdies from my tiny middle fingers. And I didn't just flip off the devil once and then stop. I kept my middle fingers extended straight down toward what I thought to be his hellish home. With streams of elementary school kids walking by me in the hallway I'm sure there were a lot of scratched heads and strange looks, but I was too busy to notice. That was, until a teacher stopped me and asked me what the heck was going on. He saw my furrowed brow, my intense gaze toward the floor and two downward digits in the 6 o'clock position. "What are you doing young man?" the teacher asked. I looked up, disgusted by his interruption (of what I considered to be a holy moment), and responded matter-of-factly, "I'm flipping off the Devil." If I remember right he told me to stop and then kept on walking down the hallway. I'm sure he was wondering what kind of strange kid he had at his school. He was right. I was strange. But I did have a very real God awareness and, therefore, a real Satan awareness too. The reality of God enthralled me and the reality of Satan enraged me. I was dealing with this rage in a way that wasn't unimaginable for a kid who was raised in a verbally and physically violent family. I hadn't read Jude 1:8-10 yet, "In the same way, these people—who claim authority from their dreams—live immoral lives, defy authority, and scoff at supernatural beings. But even Michael, one of the mightiest of the angels, did not dare accuse the devil of blasphemy, but simply said, ‘The Lord rebuke you!' (This took place when Michael was arguing with the devil about Moses' body.) But these people scoff at things they do not understand. Like unthinking animals, they do whatever their instincts tell them, and so they bring about their own destruction." Suffice it to say that Jude would have spanked me for my insolence toward Satan if he were in the place of that teacher in the hallway that day...and rightfully so. Of course now I know that Satan is not to be toyed with, trifled with or taunted. He is to be defeated by the blood of the Lamb and a humble reliance on the Lord. Those who mock him do so to their own demise. But God had grace on a well-intentioned elementary-aged kid that day. No, we shouldn't flip off the devil with our fingers, but we certainly should upset him with our lives. We should live lives that so reflect Christ that others are drawn to Jesus. We should share the good news in such a way as to depopulate the kingdom of darkness and overcrowd the kingdom of light. Do I still think about giving the devil the bird anymore? Not really. Now I'm more consumed with advancing the gospel of Jesus through an army of teenagers who are passionate about Christ and His Cause. I'm more concerned with giving God maximum glory than blowing out Satan's flickering light. But sometimes I'm afraid that, underneath all of my ministry activities, there's still a little 3rd grader giving the devil the finger. Read More... |
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