The Stride: Raising Kids as a Youth Worker Family
How will your involvement in children and youth ministries impact your own kids?
Read MorePosted by Tim Rippstein | Oct 21, 2016 | 2016 Resources, Life as a Youth Worker, The Youth Worker
How will your involvement in children and youth ministries impact your own kids?
Read MorePosted by Tim Rippstein | May 3, 2016 | 2016 Resources, Church in Culture, Doing Ministry, Youth & Culture, Youth Ministry Theory
“Missional” is popular these days…but what does it mean?
Read MorePosted by Tim Rippstein | Mar 29, 2016 | 2016 Resources, Blogs, Longevity in Ministry, The Stride, The Youth Worker
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.
Read MorePosted by Tim Rippstein | Sep 3, 2010 | 2010 Resources, Bible Studies, Free Resources
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 Testament. Objectives: Participants will see how meditation in the Old Testament was regularly practiced. Participants will learn what Christian mediation is and what it isn’t. Participants will practice a meditation exercise. Participants will explore ways in which Christian meditation can be practiced–personally and in...
Read MorePosted by Tim Rippstein | Sep 3, 2010 | Doing Ministry, Spiritual Development
“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 yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.”3 Growing up in the country, our family had dogs as pets. As usual in those days, we gave table scraps to our dogs; fat, gristle,...
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