7 Reminders when Students Mess Up
If you give students responsibilities within your youth ministry, sooner or later they will mess up. Not because they’re incompetent or irresponsible, but because they’re students and therefore only human. How you handle their mistakes can have an enormous impact on them. Here’s seven golden rules to keep in mind when your students mess up...

Discipling ADD
I have recently been revisiting a familiar paradigm in youth ministry. I thinking about how you minister to an ADD adolescent. There are so many teens with this label I feel like I need to clarify. I’m not talking about a child with lots of energy or a kinetic learner, although both of those characteristics are found in people with ADD. What I am talking about is the ability to focus which may be also tied to hyperactive behavior or a physical learning style...

How Being Southern Made me a Better Catholic
Living in Minnesota for 15 years has taught me many unexpected things, including not wearing post earrings in January (don’t ask), but one of the more serious things I have learned is that Southern Catholics have a cultural leg up on people who live in Catholic-entrenched territories. For example...

Heartbreaking...
I was in college when one of my buddies said something to me that captured a universal truth in a way that I had never considered it before: "We're all worshippers. We all worship something. We've been born to worship. . . and worship we will." Some of us make a conscious choice of worship object, and we build our lives around that. Others wind up worshipping something without giving it all much thought. It just happens. In one way or another we all - as Dylan once sang - "got to serve somebody."

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