It’s an unlikely moment from a power-hungry pagan king, a moment that gives us great insight into the very nature of God and into long-asked questions about suffering. We’re all familiar with the story in the book of Daniel of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—the “three Hebrew children”—as they’ve come to be known. … [Read more...]
Something Big and Cool in Youth Ministry
You know those times in youth ministry when you have at least a handful of teens who want to go deeper, or group of students who are curious about the Bible? If you haven’t had those times, you will. Teens are always hungrier than we think…both spiritually, and of course, physically. In fact, this spiritual hunger … [Read more...]
Replacing Judas as a Model for Ministry: Three Things You Can Do
Right about now I tend to run a parallel calendar in my mind with the events of Easter. It usually starts during the Passion Week with its daily, play-by-play account of events. It’s then easy to keep that calendar momentum rolling through, and even beyond, the Easter season since events are so well keyed into timeframes in the … [Read more...]
Identifying with the Disciples’ Post-Easter Stress
Easter Sunday is typically the highest attended Sunday in a church’s year. Any guess for the lowest attended Sunday? Yep, the Sunday following Easter. That’s probably NOT the effect that the Resurrection is to have on us. In fact, it’s to have quite the opposite. And in Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances we get a sense of how … [Read more...]
A Heartburn Moment with Jesus
An event happened shortly after Jesus’ resurrection that has profound implications on how we are to personally engage Scripture and on the type of atmosphere we are to create around our teaching and discipleship efforts. It is a lesser known Resurrection Sunday event, but you may be familiar with a famous painting … [Read more...]
Building Blocks of the Faith: 3 Reasons Why We Need to Know Them
Does Bible knowledge matter or can we get by only on experience and obedience? If you were to list four to five theological building blocks you wanted to be sure your students owned by the time they hit college, what would those building blocks be? I recently posed that very question to a couple of youth ministry … [Read more...]
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