By Rev. Gary Yagel God has assigned men a strategic position of influence in the covenant family, church, and community. He has designed our wives to be responders, and our children to have many needs that we must meet as their fathers. If we help men get it right, everybody wins. A strong discipleship ministry for [...]
Article by Danny Mitchell With the explosion in popularity of fiction books targeted at young adults, one might think that teenagers today are turning the current trend toward not wanting to read anything longer than text messages or tweets around. However, it seems like once you move away from teenage wizards named Harry and angst [...]
Article by Danny Mitchell Home / Archives / Church Leadership / The Challenge of Discipling Youth in This Age of Indifference American young people are, theoretically, fine with religious faith-but it does not concern them very much, and it is not durable enough to survive on after they graduate high school. One more thing: we’re responsible. So begins Kenda Casey Dean’s [...]
(Excerpts from The 2011 GA Seminar “Reaching the Heart of a Man”) A good summary of the goal of men’s ministry is to help men better love God with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength. Bryan Chapel points out, “Spiritual change is more a matter of what our heart loves than what our hands do” (Holiness By Grace). [...]
Article by Danny Mitchell “I don’t believe I have seen you here before. Is this your first visit?” said the ruling elder to the young man one Sunday morning in the church parking lot. On the one hand, by attempting to greet a visitor he was doing something ruling elders ought to be doing. However, [...]
Article by Danny Mitchell Perhaps I am a little biased on this subject, but I have to admit that each time I hear someone referring to high school students as the “future of the church” a part of me cringes, Don’t get me wrong. I agree with the idea that teenagers must be trained and [...]
Article by Danny Mitchell What does an author do when he writes an academic youth ministry book that is critically acclaimed in youth ministry circles and sells beyond all expectations? Simple. He writes another book on the same topic only this time he joins with another expert in the field and moves from the academic [...]
Article by Danny Mitchell Have you noticed lately that teenagers are doing some pretty amazing things? Take Zac Sunderland for example. This seventeen-year-old homeschooler from California was recently featured in ESPN: The Magazine, chronicling his attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. That’s right. 25,000 nautical miles by himself in a [...]
Article by Danny Mitchell I read once that faith is sometimes best understood by looking backwards. Now, on the surface that statement feels a lot like the inside of a Christian greeting card or one of those posters with cute animals and trite sayings that we hang on our walls to inspire us to do [...]
Article by Danny Mitchell Because I am increasingly wary of books that describe how bad things are in the American evangelical church, I was initially skeptical after being handed a copy of UnChristian. My growing dissatisfaction with these books comes from my concern that many of the authors have forgotten that in spite of her numerous [...]
