Rick Smith joined us last Monday to talk about communicating God’s Word effectively to teenagers. Rick is a youth minister who love speaking at camps, conferences and retreats. It’s from his experience that he shared some insightful thoughts about teaching teenager the Bible.

Unfortunately, we were plagued with technical difficulties throughout the conversation: the conference call’s host service had some hardware failures along with my microphone working incorrectly, so everyone was having some issues. I’ve doctored up the audio the best I could, but it’s still pretty rough.

Some of the things we talked about:

• Allowing the Holy Spirit to teach through you
• Teaching scripture to the apathetic kids
• How our personal walk impacts our teaching
• How big of a deal it is to teach God’s Word
• And a lot more…

You can listen to the whole conversation below or grab it in iTunes.

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Today’s discussion

October 19: Today’s guest is Matt Brown, formerly with the Billy Graham Association, who will lead us in a discussion about, “Mobilizing your students to share their faith.” At 2:00 PM eastern time, call (724) 444-7444 and enter ID 19105#, or use the link on the LIVE YM Talk page to listen online and join the chat room.

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