If I’m honest, in nearly 20 years of student ministry, one of the issues I’ve consistently wrestled with is how […]

Phil and Diane Comer join Matt Markins, Mike Handler, and Ross Cochran for a passionate conversation about parenting and the […]

Awana Clubs is the midweek discipleship solution from Awana Clubs International. On this episode, Andrea Perkins dives into Trek and […]

Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin joined Ross Cochran to discuss her latest book, 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask and Answer about […]

Marlon Washington is the Youth Pastor at Chicago Hope Church on the West Side of Chicago. Marlon shares how he […]

Paula Mazza is the Director of Children’s and Preteen Ministries at Solana Beach Presbyterian Church. Paula has been servinging in […]

Kara Powell, Executive Director of Fuller Youth Institute, joins Matt Markins and Ross Cochran for a conversation all about youth […]

Awana Clubs is the midweek discipleship solution from Awana Clubs International. On this episode, Hunter Williams provides an overview of […]

Mark Matlock, coauthor of Faith for Exiles, shares how the prevalence of technology in our lives has led to the […]

Doubts. We all have them, and dealing with them can be difficult! Our responses to the doubts and questions of kids in our ministries are so important when it comes to laying a sure foundation on which they can build their faith.

In Cormac McCarthy’s novel, No Country for Old Men, Sheriff Bell remembers that his father would carry the embers from the campfire in one camp to the next in an animal horn. It was a tradition passed to the cowboys from the Native Americans. 

This is why, though parents are important, even primary, in the spiritual direction and discipleship of their children, they are not “only” or even enough. Children may grow in the soil of their parents’ faith, but they need light and air and more.