What about youth leaving the church and abandoning the Christian faith?The new research conducted at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary shatters the notion that youth are dropping out of church and rejecting Christ at alarming rates.Despite how some agenda driven ministers have twisted the data to create a “new model” or to “re-think” the traditional model, […]

Surprising data from USA Today on Gay Lesbian PopulationUSA TODAY The prestigious study (released in March by the National Center for Health Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) discovered a much smaller number of “gays, lesbians and homosexuals” than generally reported by the news media. While pop-culture frequently cites the figure of […]

I have been listening to radio and reading blogs today about the death of OB. I like the exchange taking place in many of the Christian posts but it never surprises me how people who enjoy the comfort of living in a country that actually enforces the Rule of Law and defends its freedom through […]

There is a lot of buzz in the past 5 years about the role of the Student Minister vs. the idea of a Family Pastor doing student ministry. Perhaps what has given the profession of student minister a bad name and a “call” for change is that many who operated in the past generation under […]

Active Listening Most parents are familiar with the concept and technique known as active listening. The problem arises when the technique gets overused or dismissed in frustration. I am not an expert in child psychology or communication but when communicating with the adolescent world, AL becomes an an important skill that will help any parent […]

I was in Orlando recently for the Youth Pastor’s Summit. After day one, I stopped on the way home to meet some guys for a few hot-wings (God’s favored food) and arrived a few minutes early. At a nearby booth, a mom was in a dual with her pre-school son. It was escalating by the […]

We can be tempted to think that students really do not care about what happens at church. After all, they are the post-modern, post-sacrificial, post-caring generation that don’t give a rip. However, I find that many students do care, do want input and do have expectations.I like what Barna reveals in the following results: What […]

•88% of children raised in Christian families leave church at the age of 18, never to return (SBC).•A majority of adults no longer consider Christianity America’s default faith (Barna).•64% of decisions for Christ are made before the age of 18, and 77% are made before the age of 21 (Barna).•An estimated 4% of the “bridger” […]

I recently saw a commercials for a Smart Phone that will actually “save” you from your cell phone. The commercial is sort of cool but I am not sure a phone can cure our generation of this present “connection” epidemic. Yes, epidemic because some people do not have any will-power or edicate when it comes […]