Author: Walt Mueller

No-Woe Youth Ministry. . .

We’ve got a problem where I live. Actually, we have more than one problem, but there’s only one I want to mention here. The curtain is pulled back on the problem, it seems, at least once a month, maybe more.…
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Prisoners To Our Phones?

It’s a common scene in film and TV that we’ve all seen dozens if not hundreds of times. Someone doing time has an attorney, family member, or friend arrive at the prison for a visit. The visitor sits waiting patiently…
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Entrusting Our Children To God

Editor’s Note: This post appears in the Ligonier Ministries Tabletalk Magazine, October 2023. My fourteen-year-old self had gone to bed at my usual 9pm time. Two hours later, I woke up to use the bathroom. While walking undetected past my…
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When It’s All About Me, Me, Me. . .

Boxer Muhammed Ali used to dance around the ring proclaiming to anyone within earshot, “I am the greatest!” It was funny because Ali had become a caricature of himself who was at heart an entertainer. But Ali’s show has morphed…
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Andy Stanley, The Church, Our Kids, and LGBTQ. . .

After almost fifty years of life in our youth ministry world, I’ve become more and more convinced that it’s vitally important to lead our conversations about God’s good design for sex and gender by celebrating and communicating what God is…
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Understanding Sex: Cultural or Covenantal?

If he’s still around he would be in his late 40’s. I wonder if his attitudes about sex and sexuality have changed. I met him when he was in high school and sitting front and center as I was the…
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Youth Ministry: Our Primary Task

There are many ways in which I envy my youth ministry friend Jake. . . healthy rather than sinful envy I hope. He’s young. . . just getting started. He’s doing ministry on a youth culture landscape of deep self-awareness…
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Youth Ministry: There’s A World To Know. . .

So. . . what is most important in youth ministry? That’s the question I asked yesterday and will be answering this week here in this space. This question and the answer(s) I will share were occasioned by my youth pastor…
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Youth Ministry: What’s Most Important?

Yesterday I had the privilege of preaching at the ordination service of one of my young youth ministry friends who’s also been a part of our CPYU Faith and Culture Cohorts. When Jake invited me to preach – which was…
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