Thought Factory Podcast #107 || Social Media Part 4: Guidelines for This Social Game
In episode #107, we discussed how social media can be a guessing game when it comes to parents and their children’s use or youth worker and their students in a […]
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Thought Factory Podcast #106 || Social Media Part 3: Digital Discipleship
In episode #106, hosts Jeff Eckart and Jayson Brewer interview Dr. Craig Detweiler. Craig is a media professor at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA, filmmaker, and author of iGods: How […]
Five Things Students Should Know About Their Adult Leaders
I am about to finish my 16th year of student ministries. Things like music has changed many times from Michael W. Smith and Jeremy Camp to Lecrae and Hillsong. From […]
Thought Factory Podcast #101 || They Don’t Know Where to Start
What is Thought Factory? Thought Factory is dedicated to learning from students for students to better our ministry practice with students. Based on our own national research with 3000 students […]
Let Your Yes be Yes and… [Your Longevity Yes be Yes]
“Let your yes mean yes, and your no mean no. Anything more than this comes from the evil one.” Matthew 5:37 (CEB) We tend to forget about our “long-term yes’s” […]
How to Move Students Into a Deeper Relationship With Jesus
Sometimes I think we think it’s only about the physical stuff we need to do with our students or for our students in order to move them into a deeper […]
Encouragement from Skye Jethani
For those who have followed our series on Faith Postures, based off of Skye Jethani’s teachings about the gospel and young people, we’ve reached out to Skye recently, asking him […]
Posture Three: Life From God
Growing up my dentist was my cousin (he’s much older than me) which was great financially for our family. There was a problem though: he lived an hour and a […]
Five Tips to Remembering Students’ Names
Before my daughter was born, I remember considering the implications of bringing her in to this world. I would be responsible for providing her basic needs. I would be accountable […]
Posture Two: Life Over God
As some of you know, we are in a short blog series where we are discussing Skye Jenthani’s Faith Postures. Which takes a good hard look at with young people […]