Bethany House Publishers, 2006, 175 pp.,$11.99, bethanyhouse.comAre the girls in your group ready for a challenge? Using her own experience and biblical texts, Primicerio challenges young women to lead by examp...

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006,186 pp., $15.00, eerdmans.comThe title of this book would be more accurate as “Artificial Letters to Fictional New Pastors.” Jinkins fails in his attempt to bring an...

There’s a funny scene in a recent episode of NBC’s sitcom “My Name Is Earl” that reminds me a lot of our students. Earl and his buffoonish younger brother, Randy, are in the motel room w...

YouthWorker Journal is pleased to welcome Jim Burns back to our pages. Many of you already know about Jim and his decades of work with youth ministry, churches, and families. For the rest of you, here’s a...

Abingdon Press, 2006, 82 pp., $12.00,abingdonpress.comThe Pastor’s Guide to Youth Ministry serves as a wonderful snapshot of healthy youth ministry. Although it is almost devotional admonition for youth p...

Anger, the fifth in our series on the Seven Deadly Sins, is a difficult sin to write about. In our minds there seems to be an appropriate anger and an inappropriate anger. The believer just needs to discern the...

Tyndale House Publishers, 2006, 164 pp.,$14.99, tyndale.comIn Ministry Mutiny, Stier tells the narrative of a discouraged youth ministry pastor ready to abandon his calling. The young youth minister finds he ha...

Castle Quay Books, 2006, 141 pp., $12.99,castlequaybooks.comEighth-grader Kirsten Femson wanted to give her classmates a special graduation gift, so she wrote letters to many well-known Christian leaders and wi...

A few years ago, I was a teaching fellow at Boston University for an undergraduate course on the Bible. On the first day of the fall semester, the professor opened the class with a touch of drama. He walked in ...

I remember as a youth ministry leader seeing one of my high school kids who two weeks earlier “gave his life to Jesus” get busted for bringing acid to school. I asked him, “What happened, bro?...