Break Through! The Bible for Young Catholics
St. Mary’s Press, 2006, 1908 pages, $18.95,www.smp.orgEditor Brian Singer-Towns brings a respect for the Bible and a quarter-century’s worth of youth ministry to the task of creating a Bible for Cat...
The Danger of Raising Nice Kids: Preparing Our Children to Change Their World
InterVarsity Press, 192 pp., $16.00,www.ivpress.com“We are raising a generation with perfect teeth and twisted hearts... Being nice will not equip our children to be effective... help them become kingdom ...
Better Dads, Stronger Sons
Revell, 2006, 238 pp.,$24.95,www.revellbooks.comThis book takes a look at raising sons form the perspective of fathers. Johnson paints an inspiring vision for raising a boy to be a man of God, and he focuses on...
Cry of the Streets: For Everyone Who Ever Loved a Troubled Kid
OakRiver, 2006, 178, $11.00,www.gmclean@mcyfc.orgCry of the Streets, a personal account of interactions by Gordon McLean, takes an exciting look at the power of God working in the lives of the most unlikely peo...
Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling Youth
Baker Books, 2006, 256 pages, $12.99,www.BakerPublishingGroup.comThis resource is a handy biblical reference on a plethora of issues students potentially face. It covers an extensive array of subjects ranging f...
Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence
Baker Books, 2006, 187 pages, US $12.99,www.bakerbooks.comI was planning to visit Honduras this June to rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. But after reading Serving with Eyes Wide Open, I’...
The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
Edited by Eugene C. Roehlkepartiain, Pamela Ebstyne King, Linda Wagener, and Peter L. Benson.Sage Publications, 2006, 543 pp., $125,www.sagepub.comThere is probably not a more complete contribution to the issue...
Teenage Guys & Teenage Girls
Zondervan Publishing, 2006, 288 pp.,$17.99, zondervan.comFor those who have wondered why kids don’t come with owner’s manuals, this matched pair of books is a welcome relief. Teenage Guys is an exte...
Youth Ministry Tool: 16 Dramas Teaching Real Life Choices
InterVarsity Press, 2006, 120 pp., $14.00,www.ivpress.comAre you in need of some fresh drama material in your youth ministry? Steven James offers new scripts designed to illustrate and reveal humans’ conn...
Youth Ministry: Teaching to Provoke!
When I advocate “teaching to provoke” by intentionally aggravating or disagreeing with a teen or parent, I do not mean causing annoyance. What I mean is that the youth minister should be able and wi...