Tim Rippstein

How will your involvement in children and youth ministries impact your own kids?

Studies among pastors puts the devotional life in the top five most pressing needs of pastors and the top five personal and professional experiences impacting DCEs.

“Blessed is the man1 who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law2 of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that […]

Download a PDF of the Bible Study: A Bone to Pick with God Suggestions before you begin. Read the article “A Bone to Pick With God“. Take the group out for BBQ ribs or gather together and BBQ them. Eating them on the bone will help youth remember the concept of meditation from the Old […]

“Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. […]

Busyness is a disease that infects us all. Sabbath rest is the cure.

Download a PDF of Bible studies in Sabbath Rest to use them with your group. If you use them, let us know in the comments below! Rhythms, Cycles and Seasons Objectives Students will understand there are rhythms and cycles to life. Students will discover there are also healthy rhythms and cycles to our spiritual lives. Students will […]

Read Gen. 1:26-2:3 Note that human beings were created on the last day of creation. Imagine you are Adam or Eve. What is your first full day of life? It is the Sabbath, a day of resting with God. After first resting with God, then you go and work. What does this rhythm of 1 […]