This is a lesson that I did with my youth ministry students about some tips on how to grow once they have become Christians. The powerpoint has 3 songs (Blessed Be Your Name, Holy Is The Lord, and Mighty To Save) already included and then the lesson.
Feel free to change what you need to change and share this post with others as needed. If you would like more lessons, please let me know. I think the biggest search I get on my site is for lessons.
If you are wondering how …

Here is a powerpoint message that you are free to use. I just preached this a couple of weeks ago but you are free to use it for your youth ministry. It’s called David’s praise list from Psalm 103.
It has to do with praising God for what He has done for us and has the following list:
Love
Forgiveness
Salvation
Justice
Mercy
Patience
Tenderness

Feel free to edit and use it as you see fit. I often times insert video clips to illustrate but can not place the video clips in the powerpoint. I use a service called …

Last week for our youth ministry we did a persecuted church, prayer, and worship night. It was awesome!
Here’s what we did so that I can share the idea with you:

We estimated the size of the group that was showing up and picked a small room to squeeze everyone in close together.
We had candles for the students to hold and a sheet of paper with songs on it for them to follow.
We opened in prayer, watched a voice of the martyrs film about Christians being hurt for their faith and how …

I had Jamie Starrett approach me to let you know about some resources of his called Youth Ministry ToolBox.
What Youth Ministry Toolbox provides is PowerPoint lessons and PowerPoint games for youth ministry for a $40 a year subscription which after checking out the lessons and games inside – I think they would be a good buy for your youth ministry.
Here is a few examples of the PowerPoint games on the inside:

YouTube – How Well Do We Really Know It?
Terminator Salvation
Twilight Trivia
My WiKi Can Beat Up Your WiKi

There are over a …

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I was speaking with a Jr. high student this after youth group and he came up with a cool youth ministry idea. He started explaining to me that it would be cool if we could start putting together some modern day parables with video.
I thought – wow- I’m going to post this on my blog.
I have not yet done any of these modern day parables, but found an example that fits pretty close (the ending is a little weird but you will get the idea of being creative):

Again the ending …

For the first part of working with one youth group, I was having a hard time finding out what the youth were interested in and what their passions are. They were junior high age so I found this task a little more difficult. There were days I thought all they were worried about was what big dance was happening at school or their extra-curricular actives. I found several ways to help over come this.
One way is to come up with a list one night at one of your meetings. If …