Graduating Your Kids
The time has come. The time you knew would come when you put them on the bus for their first day of Kindergarten. You’ve thought about this a few times […]
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Why Is Musical Worship So Important?
When I heard high schoolers singing, “I’m free! I’m free! Jesus has delivered me!” I believed them. Last summer, Enlightened Students went on the road to host worship events […]
Though Factory Podcast #1209 | A Deeper Conversation with Your Students about Sexuality
There are many layers to the topic of sexuality. It ranges from what we view and keeping our thoughts pure to heterosexual attraction and desire to same-sex attraction and identity, […]
Thought Factory Podcast #1208 | School Climate Post Pandemic
One of the areas of society that was affected the hardest during the pandemic was schools, teachers, and students. The level of change they had to navigate was high […]
Thought Factory Podcast #1206 | Reentry Into Youth Ministry in a Different World
For those who have been in Youth Ministry before Covid, we know things have changed since the pandemic. We live in a different world now. Youth Ministry is different. […]
Where Do You Look When It’s Impossible?
After my sophomore year of college, I spent the summer in Estes Park, Colorado as a camp counselor with my best friend. We drove out and arrived a day earlier […]
Thought Factory Podcast #1201 | Students Speak Out About COVID
Would you like to know what students think about Covid, the fear it has exposed, its impact on their life, and the impact on their view of the world? In […]
Equip Your Kids For The School Year
As a parent, you want your children to own their faith! Setting them up for success in their relationship with God means showing them how to pray. We want to […]
Graduation: Are You Ready?
When our daughters were very little, a wise friend told me that she enjoyed every season of her children’s lives. She didn’t long for yesterday or wish for tomorrow. She […]
If Every School Had These Two Things, We’d See Revival…
My heart sank when I received a short, dreadful text from a young girl in my own church community on March 4, 2022. “I was there when it happened and […]