More than 3 million people (1% of U.S. population) experience homelessness each year, and 650,000 people may be permanently homeless. What can one person do? Oklahoma youth worker Philip Nguyen decided to go ho...

Wasted FaithIt all sounds great. Er.You're ready to leave the lesser life behind and open yourself up to the greater life God has for you. But I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few objections floating arou...

YWJ: Your new book Greater is all about what we can achieve with Christ in this life by dreaming bigger and starting smaller. What about this message might be most important for youth workers or teenagers ...

Imagine a megachurch without a youth group because it chooses not to have one. In the words of Senior Pastor Steven Furtick, "We don't have a student ministry. We are a student ministry." Elevation Church in Ch...

Can Fiona Apple Help Us Remember What's Important?Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:A few days ago, singer-songwriter Fiona Apple cancelled her tour of ...

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Jonathan FiskConcordia Publishing House, 2012, 280 pp., $16.99Do you want to be a rebel? Jonathan Fisk is going to give you lots of ammo to rage against the machine. In his book Broken: 7 Christian Rules that E...

"Jesus asked, 'Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?'" (Luke 17:17-19).Here on this Thanksgiving weekend we are reminded o...

Brian BerryGroup, 2012, 154 pp., $14.99If you were anything like me when you first started in youth ministry—the demands, pressures, hours and the myriad challenges of working with adolescents in a church...

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son" (John 3:16).Youth ministry is tough because we often are called to love unloveable kids. Many years ago in my first youth ministry job, I disc...