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2025
Leading Your Church To Be Gospel-Centered (As a Youth Pastor)
Question – We compiled several questions about weak leadership teams within the church. Some are about senior/pastor leadership or being too fiscally driven. Some good teams lack vision/focus. How do we …
2025
Preparing High School Seniors for Life and Faith in College
How can you prep a high school senior for life and faith in college? During a panel discussion at one of our Iron on Iron student ministry conferences, Jeff Martin, …
2025
Faithfully and Fruitfully
“Wait for the Lord; Be strong, and let your heart be courageous. Wait for the Lord.” Psalm 27:14 Driving around our mountain town these last several weeks, my eyes are …
2025
For When You Don’t Want to Trust the Lord’s Sovereignty
Job 42:2-3 ESV “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I …
2025
How to Address a Student Showing No Spiritual Fruit
So, what are we supposed to do if a teen is claiming to be a Christian but is showing no spiritual fruit? What’s the biblical, caring way to handle that …
2025
How to Integrate Youth into the Greater Church Family
How can I help integrate students into the life of the greater church? There are statistics that we hear all the time of how many students just fall away from the church …
2025
Cultivating Relationships With Other Pastors And Student Pastors
How can I find and cultivate openness, sharing, and accountability with other pastors? This question popped up at a previous Iron on Iron youth pastor conference, during a panel discussion. …
2025
Training Youth Ministry Volunteers
How can I best equip, train, and involve leaders in my youth ministry? What do you do to evaluate and train youth ministry volunteers in your ministry? What do you …
2025
Ways to Partner With Parents in Youth Ministry and Discipleship
How can I get parents involved in discipling their kids, and other students in the youth group? At the end of the day, we want parents to model Christ to their …
2025
Lessons From The Life Of Samson
Samson is a reminder that my greatest enemy is the one that looks back at me in the mirror each morning. What can we learn personally from his life in …