Tools: Resource Reviews

MARK CANNISTERRevisiting Relational Youth Ministry: From a Strategy of Influence to a Theology of Incarnation by Andrew Root (IVP)Too often our relationships contain ulterior motives, and we abandon teenagers w...

Building Rapport Among Youth

Trust and Prayer   Begin by presenting the following scenario. You have come to youth group and are facing a difficult situation and need someone to talk to whom you can trust. Ask youth to raise their h...

Not Our Fathers’ Campuses

According to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, colleges are advising professors not to let students know where they live, give out home phone numbers, nor even list their home numbers. ...

Sanctus Real Releases New Album

Sanctus Real, 2006’s most played artist at CHR radio (R&R), readies its first album in nearly two years. We Need Each Other, releasing on Sparrow Records Feb. 12. Playing new songs from the album, as ...

How to Avoid Teenage Risks

Parents, school officials, and other associated with teenagers long have wonder why they are prone to risky behavior and what can done to dissuade them from making poor choices. While the common belief is that ...

Gender Impacts Web Usage

    A study by PEW shows that not only are teenagers producing more content on the web, but it also sheds light on the differences in content habits between boys and girls.     ...

On the Youth Ministry Radar

Worship Gathering in Kansas Dozens of national youth ministries, churches, prayer ministries, and denominations are working together to prepare a field south of Kansas City for a worship gathering for thousand...

Some can’t learn from mistakes

Neuroscience studies are pointing to a gene that makes it physiologically more difficult for some people to learn from their mistakes.   German researchers, in an issue of the journal Science, say their ...