Over the past few weeks a lot of students in our area have been asking each other to prom. It is a simple question with really only two answers. We are going through a chapter of Mark each week in our club talks this semester. We are on Mark 8 […]
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I’m doing the talk tonight and I had already decided to use Mark 1:9-11, the baptism of Jesus. I was hoping to talk about the incarnation and the start of Jesus’ ministry. My wife told me of an amazing news story about a woman who, for years, thought she must […]
YLHelp reader Dan from Quad Cities, Indiana sent me this great resource for club talks. It also includes questions and ideas for campaigners for the same topics. Here are the talks included in this resource: Who Do You Say That I Am? Matthew 16:13-16 Jesus and H20. Matthew 14:22-33 Attempt […]
Last Monday I gave the Resurrection talk. I always like to include a part about what it means to be a follower of Jesus in this talk. I love the resurrection talk. It is often under-stated most times I see it at club or camp. The resurrection is the power […]
I was having an email conversation with my friend Stacy from Santa Barbara about club talks around Christmas. What do you do around Christmas? Do you just do standard club talks, do you change it up? I’ve done a few things, here are a couple ideas: For an incarnation theme, […]
Here is a video with a couple interesting club ideas. I follow this guy’s blog, its a pretty good one that you may enjoy. The first idea is a little creepy. The second ideas starts with a standard pizza Olympics, but the other ideas with text messaging are pretty […]
Here is the seventh installment of Sync through Mark… Sync: Mark 7 Club Talk Sync: Mark 7 Campaigners Plan
Last Spring, we began an ambitious project to write a club talk and corresponding campaigner lesson for each chapter of the Gospel of Mark. We got through 5 chapters and then needed to pause. Over the summer we received lots of positive feedback. In fact, just yesterday Vince, a leader […]
The other night I was having a conversation with a veteran YL leader from my area. He has been in YL over twenty years. We were talking about the club talk progression early in the semester. The club he leads decided to start right off with “person of Christ” talks. […]
Each year we kick off the school year with an All-Area Dodgeball tournament. It is a ton of fun. During “half-time”, we give a short club talk. Let me set the scene… 250+ high school students, many of them new to YL, they have been running, dodging, competing, arguing about […]
A lot has happened since I wrote this post. There were some fantastic comments on the post that were very thought provoking for me. I also went to Woodleaf, where my friend Dave did an excellent job proclaiming the gospel. In fact, he did something very similar to what I […]
OK, I got lots of support and prayer for this conversation. Thank you so much! Just so you know, when I have spoke at camps I look at the big picture and try to integrate a lot of the themes and keep to one primary analogy. I also start with […]