Once upon a time, Christian movies seemed to be a great idea...until we watched them. "Horribly cheesy" seemed to be the dominant review comment. Granted, that still may be the case in many cases. The...

"And Christ…will Himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast (1 Pet. 5:10). We live in a disposable culture, a disposable world. In fact, many of the items we buy tout the word disposable a...

Youth leaders who are looking for creative ways to incorporate a talk series into regular or weekly youth ministry events might do well to look at 1 and 2 Timothy. A series of talks can be an engaging...

Mark A. Yarhouse Intervarsity Press 2015, 189 pp., $20 Could the timing be better for a book to be released on the topic of gender dysphoria? Were you aware of this term a year ago and what it means? Wh...

Jonathan McKee Bethany House Publishers, 2015, 125 pp, $5.99 The author of Sex Matters, Jonathan McKee, has written extensively for the adolescent and young adult as his core demographic. His written work...

Tez Brooks Kregel, 2015, 192 pp., $13.38 Tez Brooks has experienced the pain of divorce from a wife who had no desire for reconciliation. Therefore, he wrote The Single Dad Detour to share some life experie...

Quick Backdrop We should take special note anytime Jesus uses the phrase "this sums things up." It always helps to get a boil-down from Jesus. The Golden Rule, which we looked at last week (see that devo here)...

Amanda Hontz Drury InterVarsity Press, 2015, 208 pp., $22 Saying Is Believing starts with an intriguing title and delivers on all fronts to be a fresh, new voice in the field of youth ministry. With an ar...

Carl Medearis Bethany House Publishers, 2015, 208 pp., $12.33 I majored in electrical engineering in college, a major that seemed logical for me because I was good at math and science and knew that engineer...

Amy Hollingsworth and Jonathan Hollingsworth Thomas Nelson, 2015, 240 pp., $12.50 In recent years, much criticism has been lobbied at short-term mission trips, particularly their value and whether they do m...