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The Secret Sauce for Speaking to Students

Posted by Jim Murphy on October 29, 2014 in Communication, Creativity, Curriculum, Preaching, Stories, Students, Teaching, The Setup |No Comments

This is being posted on a Wednesday. Hopefully most of you have already planned your message/lesson for tonight. But, if you’re looking for some last minute magic…here ya go. This is, by far, the best format I’ve used for delivering my messages to students. It’s the ages old Hook, Book, Look, Took. Hook Option 1 (my […]

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Preaching to Youth (Part 3): Creative Use of Stories from Your Own Life as a Teenager

Posted by Jim Murphy on February 18, 2013 in Preaching, Stories, Students, The Youth Pastor |One Comment

I love using stories in my messages. I usually “hook” them (I use the Hook-Book-Look-Took method) with a personal story from my own life…preferably one from when I was a teenager. I prefer my own stories and not stories and illustrations from books or websites because they allow me to do two things. First, it […]

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Preaching to Youth (Part 2): Keep it Positive

Posted by Jim Murphy on February 18, 2013 in Preaching, Students, The Youth Pastor |No Comments

The black eye gave it away. There’s no hiding it from mom when you’re 10. Wearing sunglasses is a habit I won’t have developed for another five or six years. So it was pretty obvious to mom that, once again, I got into another fight. It wasn’t my fault. It usually wasn’t my fault. I’m […]

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Preaching to Youth (Part 1): Keep Preaching

Posted by Jim Murphy on February 9, 2013 in Creativity, Cultivating the Climate, Preaching, Students, The Youth Pastor, Uncategorized |No Comments

Yes… …we all know that kids learn & grow effectively in a variety of ways. They learn by doing & practicing. They grow through extended and stretching experiences. They learn through discussion. They learn visually through the arts. They grow by exercising logic and reason. There are a million ways that kids (and adults) grow […]

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