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What Does Being a Man (or Woman) of God Mean to You?
One of my high school small group students is turning 18 this week and I received an invitation from his family to come over for breakfast on the morning of his birthday. The invite said, that they...
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Unpacking Scripture
One of the phrases I use with my high school small group guys is “unpacking scripture”. It dawned on me this week that most of them probably didn’t know what that term means. Tonight we had decided to...
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Bible Reading vs. Bible Resources
Our church (Saddleback Church) is about to embark on a series called “40 Days in the Word”. It’s a six week series that will teach ABOUT the Bible and how to read to Bible, how to love the word, learn...
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You Can’t Feed Students If You’re Not Getting Fed
One of the amazing things I have noticed about teenagers is how perceptive they are, when they want to be. I make this point because I think as a leader of a high school small group, I can’t preach to...
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Taking the temperature of your small group
Matt: I think it’s important from time to time to take the temperature and pulse of your student ministry small group. You need to take some time before a group meeting and ask yourself if there are...
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Follow the (New) Leader – Part 4
This is the fourth post in a series that we’ve been following a rookie high school small group leader, our friend John Nelissen. This time we check in on him and find out some highlights and what kind...
View ArticleSummer Student Ministry: Grow Those Relationships
We’ve written about keeping in contact with students over the summer because we feel that’s a time when some students fall off the radar and we lose them from our ministry. Let’s face it, just because...
View ArticleWhat do you expect of your students
I found this great little gem of a post by Kyle Sullivan, Student Pastor at Community Baptist Church in Oklahoma. It sets some great guidelines to use for setting expectation levels. You can find a...
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Faith like an oak tree–not a mushroom
Matt: As student ministry leaders we play an important role in helping students to develop their faith. A couple of things I’ve learned over the years are that when that faith grows at too rapid of a...
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Taking a Night Off To Just Have Fun
Last night we did a “fun night” with my high school small group guys. We went to a place called “Big Air”. It’s a trampoline park and there are a lot of things to do there. Trampoline jumping,...
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