From the Archives How Do You Know When It’s Time to Go? How Youth Pastors Can Be More Creative and Spark New Ideas Don’t Sacrifice Your Family on the Altar of Ministry (3 Tips to Restore Balance in Your Life) How to Think Like a Missionary in Youth Ministry 7 Lessons for Youth Pastors that I Learned from The Last Dance How to Remember More of What You Read What to Do When Your Students Lose Interest in Your Online Ministry Don’t Make These Mistakes When You Send Gift Cards to Your Volunteers Why Do Girls Want to be Witches? Considering the Appeal of Wicca for Christian Students 5 Apps That are Helping Me Grow in My Relationship with Christ Right Now How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going Bullet Point Bible Study: Acts 3 Bullet Point Bible Study: Acts 2 Bullet Point Bible Study: Acts 1 The 20 Best Movies for Your Youth Group Netflix Party One Important Lesson from the Tiger King 6 More Tips to Help Your Zoom Small Group Experience Why Not Ask? A Lesson About Becoming Rejection-Proof 5 Productivity Tips for Youth Pastors Working From Home 7 Quick Tips for Leading Small Groups on Zoom Who Was the Real St. Patrick? What’s More Important Than Your Youth Ministry Strategy? Is Seminary Worth It for a Youth Pastor? Western Theology: Pioneer or Settler? 7 Helpful Tips for Your Next Hospital Visit Book Review: Narrative Apologetics (Alister E. McGrath) What a Youth Pastor Can Learn from an Undercover Billionaire Should You Care About Effectiveness in Youth Ministry? A Simple Way to Get Students to Open Up, Ask Questions, and Own Their Faith Sacred Pathways for Student Pastors How to Grow Your Youth Group: Four Simple Strategies First Things First (Don’t Promote Your Ministry Before You’re Ready) How to Build Buzz in Your Ministry A Plea for Practical Theology (An Open Letter to Youth Pastors) 7 Guardrails for New Youth Pastors (and Everyone Else in Ministry) A Free Tool to Measure What’s Really Happening with Your Students Five Priorities for Your First Year in Youth Ministry Four Strategies Your Ministry Can Learn from Fortnite Why Your Sermons Aren’t Making Disciples Book Review: How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge (Clay Scroggins) How I Use Evernote to Plan for Large Group Programs The Fastest Way to Move Your Ministry Forward (Without Spending Any Money) 3 Ways to Get Students Talking in Small Groups (Even If They’re Introverts) Book Review: Growing an Engaged Church (Albert Winseman) A Fresh Approach to Pastoral Counseling with Students How to Find the Purple Cow for Your Youth Ministry Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Small Group Why Your Youth Ministry Will Stop Growing 5 Hosting Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make 3 Things Every Youth Room Needs (and what you should avoid) Is It Time to Rethink Your Youth Ministry Strategy? How You Should Be Starting Your Large Group Program How to Ask for Volunteers from the Stage Doing Ministry the North Point Way 3 Reasons Why Your Games Don’t Work (and how to fix them) How to Annihilate Your Public Speaking Anxiety How Dan Quinn Moved the Falcons Forward How to Develop Influence as a Spiritual Leader Why Your Church Won’t Change 3 Assumptions That Can Kill Your Sermons 3 Reasons Why Sermons Still Matter in Youth Ministry A New Kind of Leader (Reggie Joiner) Why Staff Meetings Stink The 6 Biggest Mistakes I’ve Made in Youth Ministry (and What I Learned From Them) The Best Business Books for Youth Pastors Don’t Hide Your Hurt How to Have the Rededication Conversation Why I Use 30 Slides in a 15-Minute Sermon (and You Should Too) 5 Habits of Highly Effective Small Group Leaders The Ticking Time Bomb That Will Blow Up Your Ministry 9 Ways to Spice Up Your Pre-Service Slideshow How to Become a Leader People Want to Follow 11 Songs for Your Graduation Video 4 Simple Ways You Can Grow as a Leader in Youth Ministry How to Lead Your Small Group Leaders Is Your Youth Room Driving Students Away? 7 Gifts You Can Feel Good About Giving Your Graduating Seniors 3 Small Choices That Hold Your Ministry Back in Big Ways Why Vision Slips (and How to Make it Stick) 5 Essential Moves to Make Your Messages Stick 3 Steps to Building a High-Performance Volunteer Team The Fastest Way to Win Respect at Your Church The Most Effective Way to Inspire Your Volunteers (and Attract New Ones) What Should a Youth Pastor Hand Off to Volunteers? 4 Evaluation Questions You Should Ask After Your Next Service Finding Your Own Chazown How to Maximize Your Ministry in the New Year Case Study: Reach More Students By Doing Fewer Things Book Review: Humilitas (John Dickson) 20 Little Things That Make a Big Difference with Students Is Your Mindset Killing Your Ministry? 5 Ways to Get Your Volunteers More Involved How to Deal with Discouragement in Youth Ministry Are You Too Old to Be a Youth Pastor? The First Step to Get Students to Show Up A Fool-Proof System to Follow Up with New Students 4 Public Speaking Mistakes New Youth Pastors Make The Best Ways to Use Instagram for Youth Ministry How to Build the Ultimate Youth Ministry Budget Recovering the Lost Art of Sabbath The Benefits & Challenges of Servant Leadership in Youth Ministry 20 Opening Lines for Your Next Sermon What Would You Do If You Were New? 7 Ways to Make a Great First Impression What I Learned from My Bout with Burnout 7 Things Your Volunteers Really Want Book Review: Take the Lid Off Your Church (Tony Morgan) Do You Work at a Dying Church? Have You Heard of Onesiphorus? 8 Steps to a Better Brainstorming Meeting Students are Like Sponges Book Review: The Hole in Our Gospel (Richard Stearns) What’s the Most Important Thing a Youth Pastor Can Do? How to Use an iPad for Preaching Why Your Students Don’t Sing (and what you can do about it) 3 Principles for Planning a Program That Makes Students Say, “Wow!” 4 Things Every Youth Pastor Should Do in July The Fastest Way to Preach Better Sermons 3 Important Lessons I Learned from Hotel Impossible How to Create a Facebook Page for Your Youth Ministry 13 Places to Find Youth Ministry Games Your Students Will Love How Important Is Having Fun in Youth Ministry? Book Review: A Sense of Urgency (John Kotter) 5 Roadblocks to Growing Your Youth Ministry 7 Simple Ways to Be More Likeable Here’s 30 of Andy Stanley’s Best Big Ideas & Bottom Lines… Search for: TagsBible Study book review environment Events games leadership Personal Development preaching productivity programs small groups strategy volunteers youth room Contact Trevortrevor@betteryouthministry.comLooking for Resources? Check out the whole selection of BYM Resources Take Me There
