How Postmodernism Serves My Faith
InterVarsity, 2006,204 pages, $18.00,intervarsitypress.comChristians have been wrestling with postmodernism for decades. This book shows there’s still some wrestling to be done with this influential in...
Recommendations on Youth Ministry Teaching to Foster Deep Learning
In tenth grade, I fell in love with learning. Until then, I had been an average student. Actually, I spent more time out of class than in, when I did show up, I spent much of my time looking for ways to persuad...
Worldview: Southern California – Urban Youth Ministry Discipleship in PASADENA
For 15 years I’ve lived one block from the Harambee Center in Pasadena, Calif., where we do long-term youth ministry discipleship among urban children.Lots of people come and go in the hood: government pr...
The Sincerity Principle: THE MEGACHURCH MEANS IT
Save for the guitar solos, fog machines, swirling lights, and bouncing bodies, walking in late to a megachurch service is nothing like walking in late to a Weezer concert.Weezer, for instance, does not provide ...
Deep Ministry in a Shallow World: Principles and Practices for Impacting Youth Ministry
God is the Ultimate Worker — but if we human workers sense our youth ministry is shallow, we need to admit that and make some changes. Was our teaching helping kids see the relevance of Scripture, o...
The Urban Take: Keep It Real, Keep It RELEVANT
“Keep it real” is a major phrase of the urban hip-hop generation. The problem today is that what is seen in commercial and corporate rap music is anything but real.True hip hop is about keeping it r...
Opening Eyes and God’s Word
You’ve undoubtedly heard the story. Maybe you’ve even seen the famous painting. Two disciples were walking to Emmaus soon after Jesus was crucified — talking a mile a minute about the strange even...
Culture Watch: How To Make A Pop Star
When I first spotted the photo on the pages of Entertainment Weekly in 1999, I felt validated. I had been telling folks for a long time that I believed somebody somewhere had come up with a fool-proof formula f...
Focus on Youth Ministry: Ten Needs Guys Have
I pray that you can keep these needs in mind in your own youth ministry.With notebook in hand, I went on tour for two weeks with 65 guys, ages 18 to 22, who were members of the Azusa Pacific Universit...
Web Only: Youth Culture Update-Trends
“WEB ONLY: YOUTH CULTURE UPDATE-SEPT/OCT TRENDS….” TEEN BLOG WATCH IS ON In a move drawing national attention, the Lake County, Illinois, Community High School District has put in place ru...