Youthful enthusiasm. Passion for Christ and students. Inexperience. A recipe for disaster?

Maybe. Maybe not. Today, in a memorable Kingdom Culture Conversation, the inimitable Jayse Meyer joins Geoff and G as they recount their youthful forays into youth ministry: the wins, the losses, and the lessons learned.

Jayse serves as the youth pastor at Desert Breeze Community Church and, if you're not already plugged into a youth ministry and anywhere near Phoenix, AZ, you need to connect with Desert Breeze! For more information on Anomaly Youth, please follow this link.

To visit the article from Relevant Magazine that served as the inspiration for today's conversation, please follow this link.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

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To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email gbrown@ncsaz.org or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

Published just this year, Dodson's latest book, "Conquerors Not Captives: Reframing Romans 7 for the Christian Life", serves as evidence that the author is gifted in both academia and application. In other words, Joey (as most are urged to call him given his propensity for doing away with formalities) excels at deep dives into scripture but then surfacing to show how those scriptures and the concepts they present are immediately relevant lifelines.

And, to his credit, Joey's online book reviews capture and celebrate that giftedness.

Most of the time.

But, alas, not always. So. today, we have the fun honor of reading some of Joey's online criticisms to him and allowing him to react. Dodson's not given to reading reviews but, rather, he's already off researching, reading, and preaching--he takes no time to read the abundance of praises found online. (For example, every Amazon reader review--at least as of this writing--is five stars.) Nor has he read the critiques.

Until today!

To read Dr. Dodson's latest book, please follow this link.

To learn more about Joey himself, please click here.

To discover more about Denver Seminary, click here.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email gbrown@ncsaz.org or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.

It would certainly be convenient if there were, but there is no recipe for successful spiritual formation in the life of a young person. To borrow a piece of parable from Jesus, as parents and educators we scatter the seed and pray that the heart's soil is such that, by the grace and mercy of the Holy Spirit, it yields fruit. That's why, if recipe is the correct analogy (it's not, by the way), prayer is the secret sauce.

But, nevertheless, when it all comes together, it is certainly glorious.

Today, we have the opportunity to revel in a bit of that: three remarkable Northwest Christian Seniors share their stories from the summer of 2024. In each case, they gave more of themselves to mission and spiritual formation than, at one point, they may have known that they had.

And, the fruit of that, as heard today in their reflections of the summer past and their dreams of God's plans ahead, is very, very exciting to observe.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created through Frameworks, a Biblical worldview initiative of Northwest Christian School.

For more information on Frameworks, please visit: https://frameworks.ncsaz.org/

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email gbrown@ncsaz.org or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.