3 WAYS TO UNDERSTAND THE YOUTH CULTURE DIAGNOSTIC

By Mike Calhoun, The Summit Church, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Culture is more than a grocery list of distinctives or a demographic study. People groups can have the power to change a society – and ultimately...

Bruno Mars’ “Versace on the Floor”

By Al Forsythe • Christ Prince of Peace Retreat Center • Knoxville, Tennessee After watching the very lustful and sexualized video of Bruno Mars’ song “Versace on the Floor”, I needed to ask myself, “How is a Christian man expected...

Getting New Music Into Your Kid’s Earbuds

Remember the “CD Lending Library” and the  “Joyful Noise Room”?  We have always been about 3 major objectives: Make youthworkers aware of all the new music (and give you VIP access to the artists who...

5 Essentials To Start Your Youth Ministry Year

EARLY in the morning, like before the sun was up early – I was gathering my gear to go on a difficult nine-mile hike in the local mountains. “Let’s see. Water’s loaded into the pack? Check....

Why I’m a Pastor and Still a YLO Member

By Jeremy White • Valley Church • Vacaville, California Once a youth pastor, always a youth pastor, right? Regardless of whether a title changes as mine did a few years ago, I will always...

History of the Summer of Love — 1967

By Bill Petro • billpetro.com It was fifty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play They’ve been going in and out of style But they’re guaranteed to raise a smile It was...

History of the Summer of Love — 1967

By Bill Petro • billpetro.com When I was a Resident Assistant at Berkeley in the early ’70s a local police officer I knew gave me a tour down Telegraph Avenue. He told me: “All the...

History of the Summer of Love — 1967

By Bill Petro • billpetro.com The Summer of Love was fifty years ago, the summer of 1967, with its epicenter in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. It was a summer of sex, drugs, and rock...

The Fidget Gospel

By Brooks Gibbs | SermonShare| Spring Hill, Tennessee Every once-in-a-while someone invents a toy that captures the obsessions of children all over the world, sending their parents into a mass consumer hysteria. The Rubik’s...