In Theaters: July 2011DVD Release: November 2011Starring: William Mapother and Brit MarlingDirected by: Mike CahillGenre: Science FictionWarnings: This movie probably will bore your junior high students. If you...

ym360 is giving away five Christmas devotions for students from the Christmas story as told in Luke.Objective: The Christmas story is the turning point in all of history; but sometimes if we admit it, stud...

More Lost than Found: Finding a Way Back to FaithJared HerdThomasNelson, 2011, 208 pp., $15.99More Lost Than Found challenges the status quo and tidiness of Christian culture with a challenging yet practic...

How does a youth worker instill in adolescents a deep, passionate, transformative and lifelong love for God? We (the Church of the Nazarene in Molalla, Ore.) believe teens must first grasp the concept of love i...

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).John 3:16 is the most famous verse in the entire Bible, and with g...

I'm a recovering messaholic. I'm recovering in the sense that I finally get the value of order, but I can still clutter any horizontal surface on a moment's notice. Similarly, I can also clutter up my relations...

I did not grow up going to church. We didn't say grace at meals. I wasn't raised on a steady diet of felt boards, Vacation Bible School and stories about Daniel in the Lion's Den in Sunday School. For me, Sunda...

Theme:Youth tend to grow up too fast, dismissing the Christmas story as routine. Also, teens tend to stress more about school, which contributes to the trivialization of the Christmas story. This drama brings o...

Jesus + Nothing = Everything Tullian Tchividjian Crossway, 2011, 224 pp., $18.99 It was refreshing to hear a successful pastor speak about a tough time in his ministry.  There are so many books publish...

Jesus said loving God is "the first and greatest commandment." What does it mean to love God, and how can youth workers help kids love Him? To find out, we talked to Mark Matlock, Lilly Lewin, Neely McQueen and...