Youth Worker Stories: Ryan Smith
From YouthSpecialties: Ryan Smith, a youth pastor at Coastline Community Church in Carlsbad, Calif., shares his youth ministry story. Full of highs and lows, Ryan's story is one of finding a place for hope in...
Where Would Jesus Sit? Searching for the Sacred During School Lunch
On days when my schedule permitted, I volunteered at my daughter's middle school. The teachers didn't need classroom assistants the way the elementary school teachers did when my wife and I volunteered there. A...
The Reason for Sports: A Christian Fanifesto
The Reason for Sports: A Christian FanifestoTed KluckMoody, 2009, 151 pages, $13.99 Kluck's brutally honest take on the world of sports will have you laughing before you turn the first page; but he argues that...
The Mockingbird Parables
The Mockingbird ParablesMatt LittonThomas Nelson, 2010, 320 pp., $14.99 In the religious world, we become accustomed to certain jargon. Parables, however, jar us out of our man-made realities and help us encou...
Meet TV’s ‘Most Powerful Teen’
Entertainment Weekly calls Miranda Cosgrove "TV's Most Powerful Teen." So who's Cosgrove? The 16-year-old actress plays the popular character iCarly, who is the center of Nickelodeon's chart-topping series, whi...
The War on Children: How Pop Culture and Public Schools Put Our Kids at Risk
Karen L. Gushta, Ph.D.Coral Ridge Ministries, 2009, 222 pp., $15.00 Karen Gushta provides a wake-up call for America in her book The War on Children. You may be taken aback by the title. However, once you read...
YCU: Addicted to Tanning?
Addicted to Tanning?Health experts are increasingly concerned with the youth obsession with tanning. Despite the fact that most folks know that skin cancer is linked with too much exposure to the sun (nearly al...
Youth Culture Lesson: Chance Success?
Oklahoma Kid Makes Musical WavesGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/Disclaimer What Happened: Before April 28, 2010, few people had heard of Greyson Chance. The 12-year-old sing...
Simply Jr. High Evangelism
From the Simply Junior High Podcast with Kurt Johnston and friends: Kurt and guest Matt Hall discuss how they approach evangelism in their youth group. ...
Bring Home the Bacon
Set an object (the "bacon") in the middle of the field. Divide into two teams and have everyone count off: Each team member gets a number which matches that of a specific member on the other team. The referee c...