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5 Minutes with Marko - Episode 163 How will you ever learn and grow if you’re not willing to make mistakes, to be an audacious risk-taker? To learn more about our youth ministry coaching programs, visit https://theyouthcartel.com

5 Minutes with Marko - Episode 162 The best youth workers don’t try to be cool, but rather, they embrace their own oddity. To learn more about our youth ministry coaching programs, visit https://theyouthcartel.com

5 Minutes with Marko - Episode 161 Teenagers might believe you if you portray that you’ve got it all figured out, but they won’t follow you. To learn more about our youth ministry coaching programs, visit https://theyouthcartel.com

5 Minutes with Marko - Episode 160 The Bible is a sweeping story we get to invite our students to live within, not just a collection of fables with moral lessons. To learn more about our youth ministry coaching programs, visit https://theyouthcartel.com

5 Minutes with Marko - Episode 159 Marko addresses how we do disservice to our teenagers when we present the Bible as completely understandable and totally knowable. To learn more about our youth ministry coaching programs, visit https://theyouthcartel.com

Minutes with Marko - Episode 158 In this final episode of this sub-series, Marko talks about the Anterior Cingulate and its huge role in our understanding and experience of God. To learn more about our youth ministry coaching programs, visit https://theyouthcartel.com

5 Minutes with Marko - Episode 157 How are you stewarding the hard-wiring of teenage brains for a lifetime of vibrant faith? To learn more about our youth ministry coaching programs, visit https://theyouthcartel.com

5 Minutes with Marko - Episode 156 This episode unpacks the two areas of the teenage brain that tend to be underdeveloped: the prefrontal cortex, and the temporal lobes. To learn more about our youth ministry coaching programs, visit https://theyouthcartel.com

This episode identifies the five major areas of change teenagers are going through, with 3 of them being directly the result of the onset of abstract thinking. Learn more about the Youth Cartel and the Youth Ministry Coaching Program at https://theyouthcartel.com.

5 Minutes with Marko - Episode 154 In part 2 of this 6-part series, Marko unpacks the onset of abstract thinking, potentially the most important aspect of understanding teenagers.

Minutes with Marko - Episode 153 Marko launches this new season with a 6-episode series highlighting the key aspects of adolescent brain development that every youth worker should know about. To learn more about our youth ministry coaching programs, visit https://theyouthcartel.com

5 Minutes with Marko - Episode 152 Deuteronomy 32:11 encourages us, indirectly at least, to be filled with hope as 8th graders and seniors move on from our ministries. To learn more about our youth ministry coaching programs, visit https://theyouthcartel.com

Marko explains why he stopped using a previous metaphor to explain the process of doubts with teenagers, and replaced it with a new metaphor.

There’s a wild fact about brain development from pre-teens through the middle teen years that you need to know about and wrestle with its implications.

“Who I am” and “What I do” are way too enmeshed for so many people in ministry roles. Marko teases out how to re-frame them.