youth ministry lessons
Usually every week most youth ministries do some type of lesson and I wanted to let you know that I partner up with someone else that offers these lessons. Click: Youth Ministry Lessons for my original posting about it.
Anyways, these lessons can be downloaded. Some of them come with not only a powerpoint, but also a word doc for further information. You can tweak the lesson to what best fits your youth ministry.
I really think they are affordable as they do a price comparison chart of them versus …

Have you ever asked the question, why do my students come to youth group?
There are two answers, and they’re not always the same: The answer students give if you ask them directly (conscious or perceived motivations), or what really motivates them (true motivations).
To figure out what really attracts students to meetings, you have to watch them. What’s the first thing they do when they come in? What do they spend the most of their time doing? What do they seem to enjoy the most, and the least? Here are the …

I actually thought this was a great youth ministry idea after seeing all the different too light too heavy bud-light commercials. This is an activity that can be developed around a passage or passages of scripture or themes.
I’m not sure how theologically this will line up, but there are certainly many scripture passages like in I Tim. which speaks about elder qualifications and speaks of people with great sober minded character and not a person with extreme sides to them.
How to do this:
Have clip of the commercial ready to go …

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 …