Youth Ministry on a Shoestring
Youth Ministry on a ShoestringLars RoodZondervan, 2011, 160 pp., $12.99This book was sent to me just when I needed it most. I got it just as our new fiscal year began and budgets were released; and as the world...
Doing It How They Did It: Historic Foundations of Youth Ministry
As a group, youth workers are not big on tradition. At least that's what they say. However, if you scratch under the surface, you quickly will find a different story.The fact is that youth workers are fastidiou...
How to Train Wreck a Great Friendship: Make It an Idol
Screeching brakes broke the quiet morning calm. The alarming noise was quickly followed by a whirlwind of chaos as our luggage catapulted through the air with the ease of an Olympic gymnast. Coffee cups and cro...
Jesus Defies Death
Miracles of Jesus Youth DevotionalJesus Defies DeathPrayerGod of life, You continue to fill me with Your love. Thank You for the life You've given me. Help me use my life to serve others as Jesus did.Take a few...
The Life of Teenagers Ain’t No Joke
No More Rappers, Athletes, Drug Dealers or Politicians, PleaseHow many rappers, athletes and drug dealers does our culture need? If you polled American teenagers, you'd think there are unlimited job openings in...
Hope for Parents of Troubled Teens
Hope for Parents of Troubled Teens: A Practical Guide to Getting Them Back on TrackConnie RaeBethany House, 2012, 224 pp., $12.99When Christian parents seek help for their teenagers, they often don't want ...
John Piper to Webcast Local Address in Effort to Promote Racial Reconciliation
In correlation with the release of Bloodlines: Race, Cross and the Christian, Pastor John Piper will be webcasting an address to local pastors in an effort to promote racial reconciliation. This address will br...
Steering Clear of Constellation Theology
Once upon a time a group of Greek philosophers on a quest for answers stared into the deep of space and pondered the stars. One, they decided, was Castor, a mere mortal. The other, his twin brother Polux, was a...
Confessions of a Spiritual Abuser
The youth pastor tore the pages right out of the Bible. No one could believe what they were witnessing. The pages of Leviticus fluttered to the ground with hardly a sound. He had asked them what was next, after...
Making Church Sticky: A Trail Guide for Youth Workers Journeying Through New Territory
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."This quotation, which has been attributed to everyone from Benjamin Franklin to Albert Einstein, should be plastered above ...