500 Questions & Answers from the Bible
Barbour Publishing, 2006, 240 pp., $9.97,www.barbourbooks.comDo you long for a little help when the kids ask hard questions? Are you the one who’s asking the hard questions? Fackler’s 500 Questions ...
Family Matters: Working with Parents to Make a Difference
The bottom line in youth ministry is not how many students you have participating in your youth group right now. It’s where those students will be in five or ten years.If they have integrated their life i...
Encounter God in the City: Onramps to Personal and Community Transformation
InterVarsity Press, 2006, 220 pp., $15.00,www.ivpress.comIn Encounter God in the City, Randy White passionately shares field-tested knowledge gained from his life and ministry in the Lowell neighborhood in Fres...
Gutsy Faith: Hard Conversations with God
Beacon Hill Press, 2006, 189 pp., $14.99,www.beaconhillbooks.com“Could it be that simple? Pray and obey?”This is one of the primary questions Jeff Edmondson, a youth publishing manager at Nazarene P...
Answering Your Dream Call
The Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche called to see if I was interested in their public address announcer position.“Yes,” I said, before darting around like a popped balloon. Soon I was trying o...
‘Y-Origins’ & ‘Y-Jesus’
B & L Publications, 2004, 100 pp., $7.95,www.y-zine.comY-origins. Y-Jesus. Y-zine. Y, you ask?The topics of Jesus and of the origins of life have gotten a lot of press lately. Every year the major news maga...
Trolls and Truth: 14 Realities about Today’s Church that We Don’t Want to See
New Hope Publishers, 2006, 224 pp.,$14.99, www.NewHopePublishers.com“In new wineskins and perhaps through the life of an old wino, our ecclesiology must be upended by the ‘least of these’: the...
‘Heat’ & ‘Buzz’
FlipSwitch Series, Multnomah Publishers,2006, 64 pp., $7.00, www.mpbooks.comSmall in size but powerful in message, these books add an interesting mix of humor, fact and frightening stats. With journal entries, ...
YM2K: Youth Ministry for the Millennial Generation
Smyth and Helwys, 2006, 87 pp., $12.00,http://www.helwys.com If you can’t find time to read Patricia Hersch, Chap Clark, David Elkind, Walt Mueller or Christian Smith, then this is your book! Hestorff do...
Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths
WaterBrook Press, 2006, $19.99, 224 pp.,www.randomhouse.com/waterbrookAfter years of leadership books focusing on strategy, skill and attitude, Dan Allender’s book is like an irresistible breath of fresh ...