YWJ Roundtable: Making a Difference
What impact am I having in the lives of the kids I serve?Some of the best youth workers constantly ask themselves this question, but the answers are hard to find. Much of youth work is a form of seed planting. ...
Youth Culture Lesson: Green Day
"Know Your Enemy" About/Disclaimer"Know Your Enemy" is the first single from Green Day's just ...
ReJesus
ReJesusMichael Frost, Alan HirschHendrickson Publishers, January 2009, 216 pp., $19.95, http://www.hendrickson.com/ I love Jesus. From my dashboard Buddy Christ (from Dogma) to my Wal-Mart talking action fi...
Leading on Empty
Leading on EmptyWayne CordeiroBethany House, March 2009, 224 pp., $19.99, www.bethanyhouse.comI like books that make me re-think the way I read Scripture and show new ways to apply it to my life. Leading on E...
The Searching Generation: The Spiritual Life of Twenty-Somethings (DVD)
The Searching Generation: The Spiritual Life of Twenty-Somethings (DVD)Auroris Media and Current Pictures, 2006, 30 minutes, $19.99, www.visionvideo.comWe get into a trap in our churches. We farm kids out of ...
From a Hole in the Roof: Youth Ministry Re-imagined
I’ve been writing this column in this journal for a number of years now, and I don’t think I ever took the time to explain its title, “From a Hole in the Roof.” It refers to the story in...
God is Here: Connecting with Him in Everyday Life (A Modern Look at Brother Lawrence’s The Practice of the Presence of God)
Relevant Books, 2005, 199 pp., discussionguide included, $12.99,www.relevantbooks.comThe gist of this book is: pray without ceasing; be aware of God continually. In transferring the rich writing of the famous 1...