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2025
Redemption, Betrayal, and Responsibility in Ministry | No Sanity Stories
DISCLAIMER: This episode includes content that is sexual in nature. Viewer discretion is advised. In this episode, Brody shares one of the most shocking and unexpected stories from his 30 …
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
When is the Right Time to Leave a Church as a Youth Pastor?
How do I know when it’s time to leave a church? It’s a good question to consider. Too often, we ask the Lord this question before we’re ready to listen …
2024
Wisdom and Tips For First-Time Youth Pastors
Steve Brooks is a long-time SWO partner, and has been faithfully serving in youth ministry since the mid-1990s — at the same church! We spoke with him at our student ministry …
2020
How to Make a Simple Bible Study Tool for your Students
We have been posting daily videos studying verse by verse through Colossians, and this is how we make them. This is a simple approach that uses tools you already have …
2019
Discontented Youth Minister, Don’t Leave Too Soon
Updated: February 28, 2025 Imagine, after working at the same church for more than eight years and leading missions trips internationally for two, you, a 30-year-old youth minister hosts a …
2019
2 Books That Help Us Understand Race and Unity in the Church
Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America By Christian Smith & Michael Emerson “From the isolated, individualistic perspective of most white evangelicals and many other …