Richard Ross

How to Connect With The Heart of Your Teenager

How to Connect With The Heart of Your Teenager

Relationships are central to making a spiritual impact on children. Children and teenagers tend to embrace their parents’ faith if parents have heart connections (relationships) with them. If a parent and teenager grow distant from each other, the parent will…

Time for a ‘Radical Reevaluation’ of Youth Ministry

Time for a ‘Radical Reevaluation’ of Youth Ministry

This year I am celebrating my 50th year focused on teenagers and the adults important to teenagers. What a blessing it has been for the Lord to give me this ministry focused on youth for my lifetime. Yet, after a half-century in this vital ministry, I’ve come to…

Spiritual Orphans and the Church

Spiritual Orphans and the Church

In the beginning there were children and adults. But then, around 1900, cultural shifts in American education, industrialization, and the law led to a new stage of life—youth. At first youth were a high priority to parents and culture. The majority had their most…

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