Kregel, 133 pp., $12.99, www.kregel.comI hate that this book had to be written; but, alas, today we need to be accurately informed about this subject. Written by a lawyer and a church member, this quick read gi...

Group, 2005, 166 pp., $16.99,www.group.comOK, so what’s a youth ministry without youth? And then there’s the youth director and the valuable volunteers…so where do parents fit in? This fa...

TH1NK Books/NavPress, 192 pp., $9.99,www.navpress.comThis is an actual devotional based on Napoleon Dynamite. In the introduction the authors admit that some of these devotional thoughts are reaches from a movi...

HarperSanFrancisco, 1981/rev. 2005,201 pp., $13.95, www.harpercollins.comYouthWorker Journal usually doesn’t review books that are 25 years old, but Wallis recently revised a book too important to ignore....

Sarah Connor: Three billion human lives ended on Aug. 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines ... the comp...

Baker, 2005, 217 pp., $14.99,www.bakerbooks.comIf you are a worship leader at any level, or someone who is passionate about worship, this is a must-read book. You will not find the latest tips and tricks to lea...

Cladach Publishing, 2005, $9.99,www.cladach.comWhile this book is geared toward elementary and middle school students, you just might find yourself picking it up and sneaking a quick read when nobody is looking...

Eerdmans, 2005, 239 pp., $16.99,www.eerdmans.comDid you hear the one about the guy who did all his homework, then helped the teacher correct everyone else’s papers? He wrote this book. Thus, the skeptic w...

Th1nk, 2005, 142 pp., $8.99,www.th1nkbooks.comThis book is designed to be used in a small-group study for young adults who are just entering the real world (think the first couple of seasons of “Friends&#...

During my last season of coaching high school girls’ basketball in 2002, something changed in the way I approached urban youth ministry. Prior to that time, I saw urban youth ministry mostly from the pers...