Dave Young is a husband, father, mentor, friend, and evangelist. Traveling together with his family and team, he preaches in revival campaigns, evangelistic outreaches, and Family Matters Conferences. He also speaks in camps, colleges, and schools, and partners with several ministries throughout the world to preach in evangelistic campaigns in a variety of countries. After 23 years of traveling, Dave has preached the gospel in 46 states and 6 countries. He blogs about a variety of issues but places a special emphasis on those connected to the home, revival, and evangelism.

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Bad Preacher Clips, Recovering Fundamentalists, and the IFB Although our tongues can certainly be sharp, it is only the Word of God that should be sharp in our preaching. Details Rating: 0.00

Music Matters Some would ask, “Fine, but what do you believe about music?”? That is a good question and my answer is actually pretty simple:? I believe music matters. Details Rating: 0.00

Have Yourself a Magical Christmas! I believe in magic! Do you? I don't mean the dark and evil sense of magic as used by our secular and sin-cursed world. I mean the beautiful and mysterious kind that brings the kind of awe and wonder and joy that affects us the rest of our lives. Do you know what I mean? Details Rating: 0.00

Mentoring and Influencing a Younger Generation Part 3 – Some Thoughts about Youth Ministry While I am not necessarily opposed to younger people helping in youth ministry, I do believe that we are missing the influence of wisdom, experience, and spiritual maturity. And we need those influences. Details Rating: 0.00

The Issue of Tattoos Several years ago I was spending an evening with a really great friend when he asked me, “So what do you want to do tonight?” I said, “I guess we could go get a tattoo!” Details Rating: 0.00

Mentoring and Influencing a Younger Generation Part 2 – Some Thoughts for Those who are Younger It is my experience that younger people really do want someone in their lives to whom they can look for conversations, wisdom, encouragement, and answers. Details Rating: 0.00

Mentoring and Influencing a Younger Generation – Some Thoughts for Those who are Older What do we want from this generation? We want them to know our God and love Him. We want to influence our generation to love God's Word, know it thoroughly, and apply it to the way they live their lives. We want them to be “all-in” for God and willing to follow Christ and live for His sake and the gospels. We want them to join the great cloud of witnesses who lived by faith and “subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, [and] obtained promises” (Hebrews 11:33). Those are what makes Christianity successful! Let's stay focused on those things. Details Rating: 0.00

Don't Let Your Older Years Become Your Colder Years Let's determine that this will never happen to us. Let's determine that we will not close our lives by just being comfortable and casual in our Christianity. Let's never get to the place where we refuse to acknowledge and repent when we are wrong. Let's choose to live faithfully rather than pragmatically. We should be more than just tradition-defenders. We should also be team-players in the Lord's work. Let's never forget to seek God in our older years. Details Rating: 0.00

How should a church transition to a new pastor? Remember this: Jesus loves the church and gave Himself for it! We believe that, don't we? Rest in that as you seek a pastor. Details Rating: 0.00

What about Proverbs 22:6? Part 3 Bethlie and I regularly encourage, love on, and pray with people who are hurting over their adult children. We don't judge or criticize families that are broken and hurting. None of us should do that! Details Rating: 0.00

What about Proverbs 22:6? Part 1 Solomon is not just sharing his wisdom to parents, he is sharing God's wisdom to parents! Because I believe this, it changes my entire outlook on this verse. Details Rating: 0.00

What about Proverbs 22:6? Part 2 “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Last week I wrote an article about the debate surrounding Proverbs 22:6. If you would like to read that article you can do so (HERE). It was in my heart to evaluate why there… Details Rating: 0.00

How Do You Turn 30 Years into a Really Great Marriage? Tomorrow Bethlie Joy and I celebrate 30 years of marriage. Last night we laughed at how fast the time has flown! And it really has. This morning I spend some time thinking about how we got here! We are in love. I joke that we are trying to set the world record for the longest… Details Rating: 0.00

OBSERVATIONS FROM A SUMMER OF MINISTRY IN TEEN CAMPS I love teen camps. I especially love preaching at teen camps. This summer, I had the privilege of preaching in 5 different camps and, in my opinion, it was an epic summer of ministry. Here is what I have observed: I am thankful for the privilege to preach to so many teens. It is one… Details Rating: 0.00

A Man with a Great Testimony A few weeks ago, I was privileged to preach a Family Conference in a country church in southern West Virginia. We had good crowds and a good spirit and God's blessing on the conference. Details Rating: 0.00