Today, Randy speaks with special guest Mark Hall, lead singer and songwriter for the Grammy Award-winning band Casting Crowns. Mark discusses youth ministry as he sees it today and the powerful impact that worship music can have on someone engaging in the Word, and the transformative power that it can bring to someone’s life.

RELATED LINKS:

Thrive Resource Ministry

Casting Crowns

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Randy introduces you to Morgan Jackson, Senior Vice President of Faith Comes by Hearing, a global initiative to distribute the Bible in auditory options in all the languages of the world. Hear Morgan speak of his experiences of massive transformation once the Bible was relayed orally and in their native tongue, rather than through print. Randy dives into how this simple shift from print to oral has reached and impacted a massive amount of people around the globe.

In today’s episode, Randy speaks with Matt Markins, the President and CEO of Awana. Matt explores his experience with Awana on the most effective ways to engage children in the Bible and create long-lasting relationships with the church and Jesus. Within the Awana organization, Matt has been able to lead churches to a more successful children’s ministry that dives deep into Awana’s three areas of belong, believe, and become. Listen in today to hear Matt explain these areas and more that Awana is helping churches do for today’s youth.

RELATED LINKS:

Resilient: Child Discipleship and the Fearless Future of the Church

https://www.amazon.com/Resilient-Discipleship-Fearless-Future-Church/dp/1946680648

Child Discipleship Forum

https://childdiscipleship.com/child-discipleship-forum/

Talk About

https://talkabout.awana.org/

Brite Curriculum

https://britecurriculum.com/

In today’s episode, Randy talks with Mark Batterson, lead pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C. Randy and Mark dive into many of the relevant and troubled topics of today’s world including divisional politics, community views, societal pressures and more. Listen in as Mark talks about how he approaches these topics and works to reach across all generations within his community.

Shelley Leith, the Director of Church Relations for HarperCollins Christian Publishing, works with churches to implement churchwide spiritual growth experiences and today joins Randy to discuss the role of The Story in how it can equip parents to disciple their children. Shelley explains how getting back to the basics, and truly teaching an understanding of the Bible, using tools such as The Story, across all generations can lead to engaging more children in the Bible and furthering their understanding and passion.

In today’s episode, Randy introduces you to Phil Collins, Professor of Christian Ministries and the Director of the Taylor University Center for Scripture Engagement. Phil discusses how to approach the next generation and instill a love of the Bible and Scripture Engagement with them. An important aspect of this is the education and teaching of the adult community surrounding children and giving them the tools and confidence themselves to teach the younger generation about the Bible and help them understand and develop a passion and understanding of Scripture themselves.

RELATED LINKS:
https://www.thestory.com/#abide

https://churchsource.com/collections/abide-bible

In today’s episode, Pastor Randy Frazee introduces us to Nicole Martin, the Senior Vice President for Ministry Impact at American Bible Society. Nicole introduces us to the concept of “The Movable Middle”, referring to those people that are introduced to the Bible, but may be considered “mid-way engaged” versus those that are Bible-centered. Nicole discusses how Scripture Engagement is important to develop those that could choose to engage less with Scripture or more with Scripture depending on what they are exposed to and taught.

RELATED LINKS:

https://americanbible.org/

https://www.faithandliberty.org/

State of the Bible: https://sotb.research.bible/

In today’s episode, Randy talks with Kyle Idleman, a teaching pastor at Southeast Christian Church, the fifth largest church in America. Kyle speaks on how storytelling is essential in creating engagement and understanding of the stories of the Bible, and how important a factor that is to true understanding of what is being taught. He goes into detail about his experience with The Story and how and why he utilizes this technique in his preaching and how others can do the same.