I’m a skeptic when it comes to ChurchMerch and Jesus Junk. Big time. After spending some time serving in two different churches I’ve come to realize that if I receive an unsolicited advertisement or free sample in the mail, it’s usually flashy, cheesy, man-centered, and puddle deep. Nevertheless, I usually take some time to look [...]
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John and Noel Piper have written a great article entitled The Family: Together in God’s Presence.
In this article, we hope to do two things: 1) demonstrate that parents (or some responsible adult) should bring little children to the Sunday morning worship service rather than send them to a “children’s church”; 2) give some practical [...]
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The comments are closed on the Pulpit Magazine articles post. The discussion has gone on long enough and is no longer profitable. If you have more to say, take it to your own blog, or better yet, talk about it in person if you have the opportunity! Nevertheless, here’s the bottom line: No matter what [...]
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I recently completed and printed a booklet entitled “The Philosophy and Function of Student Ministry” for Ephesus Church. It contains several sections that have been discussed on this blog, as well as many other sections that we have yet to get to! If you’re interested in a comprehensive overview of the way I (we) do [...]
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One of my jobs as a pastor is to review and evaluate materials that can be taught in the church and home, determining whether or not they are consistent with our confessional beliefs as reformed baptists. As it pertains to student ministry, I very rarely use pre-produced curriculum in my teaching. As I see it, [...]
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Pulpit Magazine has recently posted two different blog articles that I think are well written, and in line with some of the issues we discuss here at Reforming Students. More interesting than the articles are the comment sections that follow, proving once again that sometimes our dogmatic black & whiteness may not be so black [...]
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I am really enjoying Steve Wright’s book reThink: Is Student Ministry Working? I’m reading it slowly and taking notes — Steve and I share the same convictions and it gives me encouragement and joy to know that others share that with me in ministry. When I finish I’ll be doing a complete review of the [...]
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Abraham Piper, the son of John Piper, has become a man that I greatly respect. Through many years of listening to Dr. Piper’s sermons, I have heard him on several occasion talk about Abraham, who is the third of 5 children for the Pipers (4 boys, 1 girl). As I listened to Abraham’s introduction of [...]
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This is my 4th post on what I consider to be the non-negotiable aspects of student ministry.
Part 1 – Serving Steak at a Dairy Farm
Part 2 – Focused Discipleship
Part 3 – Service
One of the great tragedies of most student ministry trends and models is that they tend to be developed with the assumption that student [...]
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