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 […]
Episode #105 we interview Phil Joel from Zealand Worship. Phil is the former bassist for the band Newsboys and he talks about his personal approach to social media as well […]
A few months back, my team and I talked about this statement, “We provide programming that is physical, emotional, and spiritually safe without making it experientially safe.” What chords does […]
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 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” […]
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 […]
Over the last month or so we have been looking into Skye Jethani’s teachings on how we as the Church are presenting the Gospel and the ramifications of misrepresenting the […]
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 […]
One of my favorite passages is from 2 Kings 3. At this time the Kings of Israel, Judah and Edom have tried to do everything on their own to lead […]
In John 21:15, Jesus presented Simon Peter with a series of three questions in quick succession, questioning his true love for Jesus. Each time Jesus asked, “Do you truly love […]