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3×3: Fostering Social Justice in Your Youth Ministry

3×3: Fostering Social Justice in Your Youth Ministry

If you’ve turned on the news any time during the past year, it’s been hard to miss the wave of young social activism sweeping our nation. Teenagers like David Hogg and Emma González are becoming household names like Malala Yousafzai or the Little Rock Nine before them. More and more, teens are demanding their place Read More

Thin Spaces

Painted between 1510-1512 AD, is an Italian fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It was painted by a well-known artist named Michelangelo. Measuring 18 feet by 10 feet, it depicts the Biblical creation of Adam. At the center of this painting is the connected fingertips of Adam and God suggesting the connection between Read More

Talking to Teens About Suicide

It doesn’t take a lot of digging around to find alarming statistics regarding the rates of suicide in today’s youth. The Center for Disease Control and Prevent, claims that suicide was the second leading cause for death among 10-24 year olds in 2016. According to The Jason Foundation, each day in our nation, there are Read More

15 Awesome Summer Games

Summer is finally here! This time of year is often a challenge in the ministry world because of all the vacations and traveling. So how do you keep your students engaged? We’ve put together a list of exciting summer games your students will want to play again and again. Name Red Rover Q-tip War Duckie Read More

Youth Culture Update: American Millennials Trail the World…in Everything

The Millennial generation in the United States lags behind most of the industrialized world in most job-based skills, according to Princeton's Educational Testing Service. In literacy, Americans between the ...

Frameworks: How to Navigate the New Testament

Eric Larsen IVP Books, 2013, 372 pp., $17.99 Eric Larsen's Frameworks is a simple, creative resource for understanding and navigating the Bible. This resource helps students of the Bible navigate its pages,...

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Jared Brock Tyndale, 2015, 352 pp., $13.31 The subtitle of this book says it all—How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life. Similar to oth...

Jesus Swagger: Break Free from Poser Christianity

Jarrid Wilson Thomas Nelson, 2015, 179 pp., $16.99 Jarrid Wilson's Jesus Swagger has some perceptive and fervent pleas to stir status quo Christianity. The genuine heart for a purer, more Christ-centered fa...

The Grave Robber: How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible

Mark Batterson and Parker Batterson Baker Books, 2015, 176 pp., $12.05 This father and son have teamed up to offer a fun and enticing take on the seven miracles of Jesus as found in the Gospel of John. Thou...

Tech-Savvy Parenting: Navigating Your Child’s Digital Life

Brian Housman Randall House Publishing, 2014, 152 pp., $17.99 Every parent wonders when to allow certain technology with their children while also trying to manage all the digital noise that bombards them...

Becoming a Spiritually Healthy Family: Avoiding the 6 Dysfunctional Parenting Styles

Michelle Anthony David C. Cook, 2015, 208 pp., $11.99 "When we pursue Jesus, we get the abundant life. When we pursue the abundant life, we get dysfunction." Michelle Anthony goes straight to the heart of...

Where the Cross Meets the Street: What Happens to the Neighborhood when God Is at the Center

Noel Castellanos IVP Books, 2015, 183 pp., $11.84 My husband and I often have wondered: Is it easier to bring social justice to the evangelicals or Jesus to the mainliners? So often, our experience has b...

Shrink: Faithful Ministry in a Church-Growth Culture

Tim Suttle Zondervan, 2014, 239 pp., $16.99 Success as a Christian leader or faithfulness—for which do you strive? Tim Suttle's Shrink restarts a conversation about the motives and heart direction...

Ordinary: How to Turn the World Upside Down

Tony Merida B&H Publishing, 2015, 140 pp., $12.99 Are you looking for a new perspective on the call of the Christian in a world of need? Pastor and speaker Tony Merida's Ordinary is a masterful yet un...