Posts Tagged ‘how to teach teens’

Free resources for youth pastors: KTL 03 – How to Teach Christ as the Center (mp3)             The Christocentric hermeneutic continues!  Remember that Christocentric means “Christ-centered” and hermeneutic means “view or interpretation of Scripture.”  This lesson is extremely important on how to preach Christ in every sermon and from every Biblical text.  I believe these [...]

Yep, you guessed it.  There’s no article yet.  But there is an mp3 of the class session on how to use introductions, create a need for every person to listen, and how to conclude the sermon.  So listen up!  09 – KTL – Intro. Need. Conclusion (mp3)

If you’re one of our students, you’ve asked for it, so you’re going to get it!  For the rest of you who have no clue what I’m talking about…a couple of Wednesdays ago I gave our students an option of what I would teach them on this Wednesday. Option 1: Do a Q and A [...]

Free files for youth pastors: You Got Skills – 3 – What’s Your Ministry? (mp3) You Got Skills – 3 – Whats Your Ministry (fillout sheet) You Got Skills – 3 – What’s Your Ministry? (ppt) Before we move forward, lets review exactly what these spiritual gifts are. What good will it do us if [...]

Free files for youth pastors: You Got Skills – 2 – What’s Your Skill? (mp3) You Got Skills – 2 – What’s Your Skill? (fillout sheet) You Got Skills – 2 – What’s Your Skill? (ppt) Let’s review from the last lesson on what spiritual gifts actually are. Spiritual gifts are our God-given passions, abilities, [...]

Scriptures on Christ-Centeredness in All Things and Preaching (doc) I remember being at a weekend conference for student ministries and hearing the dynamic speakers chosen to preach.  I was amazed that both speakers preached two different sermons, but their sermons were both so much alike.  They both introduced their sermon with the topic they thought [...]

You probably will think I’m crazy, but the greatest preaching and teaching I’ve ever heard…  I’m talking about the most passionate, most engaging, most clear and understandable, most personal, most theological, most applicable, and even most humorous…  I didn’t hear these greatest sermons and lessons at the coolest, hippest conference around, nor did I hear [...]

I’ve heard some teenagers say, “I hate going to church because I never can remember everything.”  Those students feel like every message is different with a different moral, a different truth, a different discipline, or a different skill to adopt to their life.  On the other hand I’ve heard teenagers say, “I hate going to [...]

Free file for youth pastors: Diagram – How To Preach OT for Christ I can remember looking out of the car window very intently while riding through Alberta, Alabama as a young little dude.  Trying to see all the way across the street and into the Krispy Kreme restaurant, I usually could catch a glimpse [...]

I remember being in Uganda, Africa a few summers ago.  While I was there, a group of high school sophomores from Ireland came through.  They were of the “conservative-Christian” political class in Ireland.  After asking them questions, I quickly found out that “conservative-Christian” has a much different meaning there than here.  Not one of the [...]