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Family Ministry: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are, and Where We Might Go

22nd May 2017

The first family ministry book I ever read was Family-Based Youth Ministry by Mark DeVries. My first response was to reject family ministry as a preposterous idea in my particular context.  It took two years for the struggles of ministry and the work of the Holy Spirit to change my mind.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured Tagged With: children, children's ministry, church as family, D6, D6 Conferece, family, family as church, family ministry, Family-Based Youth Ministry, family-equipping, family-equipping ministry, history, Mark DeVries, Parenting, Randy Stinson, Ron Hunter, youth ministry

Family Ministry: A New Definition for Family Ministry (Part 3)

17th May 2017

I delivered this paper on an expanded definition for family ministry in May 2017 at the HOUSE Conference in Australia, a conference sponsored by YouthWorks and themed around the intersection between family ministry and ecclesiology. This post is the third part of a three-part series. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 _____ A RENEWAL OF […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: children's ministry, family ministry, intergenerational ministry, intergenerationality, youth ministry

Family Ministry: A New Definition for Family Ministry (Part 2)

16th May 2017

I delivered this paper proposing a revised definition for family ministry in May 2017 at the HOUSE Conference in Australia, a gathering sponsored by YouthWorks and themed around the intersection between family ministry and ecclesiology. This post is the second part of a three-part series articulating the need for a revised definition for family ministry. Part […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History Tagged With: children's ministry, Christian Endeavor, church history, church ministry, efficiency movement, family ministry, history, Industrial Revolution, intergenerational ministry, intergenerationality, youth ministry

Family Ministry: A New Definition for Family Ministry (Part 1)

15th May 2017

I delivered this paper proposing a revised definition for family ministry in May 2017 at the HOUSE Conference in Australia, a gathering sponsored by YouthWorks College and themed around the intersection between family ministry and ecclesiology. This post on a revised definition for family ministry is the first part of a three-part series. Part 1 Part […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Lead Tagged With: Australia, church as family, family as church, family ministry, HOUSE Conference, Perspectives on Family Ministry, YouthWorks

Family Ministry: Remembering Who Your Children Really Are

10th March 2017

Childhood identity theft. It’s a real thing. Thieves steal children’s Social Security numbers and then appropriate their financial identities for personal profit. “Children represent an emerging market for identity thieves who steal their Social Security numbers because they offer clean slates that can be used to commit fraud for years without detection,” one CPA has […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Video Tagged With: childhood, children, identity, identity theft, parenthood, Parenting, parents, theological anthropology

Family Ministry: Museum of the Bible, the One Trip to Plan for Your Family This Year

4th January 2017

On November 17, 2017, the much-anticipated Museum of the Bible will be opening in Washington, D.C. with more than 40,000 objects on display in a 430,000-square-foot structure, three blocks from the Capitol Building. The collection includes artifacts from the time of Abraham, fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as biblical papyri and manuscripts, […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Video Tagged With: Hobby Lobby, Lauren McAfee, Michael McAfee, Museum of the Bible

Blog: Most-Read Posts of 2016 and Plans for 2017

3rd January 2017

Around twenty-seven thousand people racked up nearly one hundred thousand views of this blog in 2016. If you were one of them, thank you! Since there are no advertisements on my site, I don’t profit from any of the content. And so, if you’ve profited from what I’ve written, please consider purchasing a book (or two […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, In the News, Lead, Learn, Movie Reviews, Serve, Solve, Video Tagged With: apologetics, church history, family ministry, history, leadership, year in review

Family Ministry: How Adoption Taught Me to Trust My Heavenly Father More

14th December 2016

Thirteen years ago this week, we finalized the adoption of our first child. In the spring of 2003, a seven-year-old girl had struggled up the front steps of our home in Oklahoma, tattered vinyl suitcase clutched to her chest. In the room where we had wept so often for the baby that never came, I […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, In the News Tagged With: adoption

Culture: C.S. Lewis and the False Promise of Pornography

17th November 2016

“We are fast becoming a pornographic society. Over the course of the last decade, explicitly sexual images have crept into…virtually every niche of American life,” R. Albert Mohler writes. “By some estimations, the production and sale of explicit pornography now represents the seventh-largest industry in America.” Pornography has become—as William Struthers has pointed out in his […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Learn Tagged With: C.S. Lewis, pornography

Family Ministry: Discipleship and Family in African-American History

15th November 2016

A few months ago, I sat down with my colleagues Kevin Smith and Kevin Jones to discuss the dynamics of discipleship and family ministry in African-American communities. Rev. Smith is the executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland and Delaware. Dr. Jones is a scholar of the history of education and coauthor of the […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: African American, African-American history, black history, Kevin Jones, Kevin Smith, racial reconciliation, racism

Family Ministry: The Radical Book for Kids

10th November 2016

Do you want to cultivate your older children’s curiosity and shape their souls at the same time? Here’s a new book that will help you to fulfill both of those goals. As I flipped through page after colorful page in The Radical Book for Kids: Exploring the Roots and Shoots of Faith, one thought kept recurring […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Book reviews, Family Ministry, featured Tagged With: Champ Thornton, Radical Book for Kids

Family Ministry: Caring for Your Pastor’s Children

12th October 2016

Pastors’ children see the best and the worst of the church. My father served as a pastor throughout much of my childhood, and my oldest daughter spent her first several years in our household as a pastor’s child. Although I no longer serve as a paid pastoral staff member, I teach and preach frequently in […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured Tagged With: church, family, pastor

Family Ministry: Teaching Your Children How We Got the Bible

5th October 2016

This week, 480 years ago, William Tyndale was strangled to death and then burned. One of his offenses was the translation of the Bible into English from Hebrew and Greek—a capital crime at that time. Not even death, however, could stop the impact of Tyndale’s translations. The words that Tyndale left behind would reshape not […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History Tagged With: Bible, how we got the Bible, Michael McAfee, Museum of the Bible, Tyndale, William Tyndale

Family Ministry: How a Parent’s Role Changes through the Stages of a Child’s Life

28th September 2016

If you’re a parent, what’s your goal for parenting? My parenting purpose statement is simply this: Our purpose is to leverage our children’s lives so that people in every nation will receive multiplied opportunities to respond in faith to the rightful King of kings.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Video Tagged With: parenthood, Parenting, parents

D6 Conference: Planning Your Time in Louisville

20th September 2016

Beginning tomorrow, hundreds of church leaders will arrive in the city of Louisville to attend this year’s D6 Conference. If you’re not familiar with D6, it’s far more than a conference; it’s a place where ministry teams can gather each year to learn, worship, pray, and strategize about how to embed God’s truth in the lives of the next […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, In the News Tagged With: D6 Conference, food, Louisville, restaurants

Family Ministry: A Better Story for Your Parenting

14th September 2016

Data and arguments aren’t the strategies that do the best job of convincing people to change their lives. What convinces people best is the promise of a better story than the one they’re presently living. That’s why every leader should be—in the words of R. Albert Mohler—a steward-in-chief of [the organization’s] story. … Leadership comes down […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Video Tagged With: metanarrative, parenthood, Parenting, parents, story, storyline

Family Ministry: How to Minister to Families in Crisis

7th September 2016

While I was participating in the D6 Connect Tour earlier this year, my friend Ron Hunter asked me to share some ideas about how to minister to children and youth whose parents don’t attend church. Bundled with an interview with Leneita Fix about serving families in crisis, D6 turned this conversation into a free resource […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, Family Ministry, featured Tagged With: crisis, Leneita Fix

Culture: Remembering Emmett Till

2nd September 2016

In September 1955, the bloated and broken corpse of Emmett Till arrived in Chicago. His mother identified his body and made the decision to leave his casket open for the funeral. “Let the people see what I’ve seen,” she told the owner of the funeral home, and the people did. What they saw changed the world.

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History Tagged With: African American, African-American history, black history, Emmett Till, racism

Family Ministry: The Best Tool to Filter Films for Your Family

31st August 2016

My family and I enjoy movies—a lot. The problem is, there are many movies that, for us at least, are too riddled with unnecessary profanity and sexual innuendo to enjoy together. And, honestly, I know that I myself am unable to deal well with any sexual nudity in a film. Other Christians have different convictions […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Learn, Movie Reviews

Family Ministry: The Difference Between God’s Adoption and Ours

24th August 2016

Thirteen years ago, my wife and I sat at a table in a cramped office that reeked of scorched coffee and mildewed carpet. By that point in our lives, we had journeyed for nearly two years on a long and difficult road toward adoption. While social workers shuffled around us, we pored over page after […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, PROOF Tagged With: adoption, grace

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