A Place Where Prodigals Might Return
Watching Carly come to faith was a great joy in my early years of youth ministry. Watching her walk away was equally as painful. Carly had been invited to our youth group by a friend. She made a commi...
Can it Get Any Better? From Law Major to Youth Ministry
Dave was a probations officer working on his law degree. He was on schedule to join the family law firm. That was before a friend took him to a local youth ministry meeting, where God laid a call on his heart. ...
Christ, Culture, and the City
I was sitting in the basement of an African-American urban church, listening to young people talk about the “N” word. Historically, the “N” word has been the worst term you could use to ...
Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock
Da Capo Press, 2006, 291 pp.,$16.95, perseusbooks.comOnce upon a time, pop music was little more than escapist entertainment. The Beatles helped change all that in the 1960s, the tumultuous decade that also spa...
My Time with God for Students: Devotions for the Entire Year
(New Century Version)Nelson Bibles, 672 pp., $14.99,www.myfaithandlife.comMy Time with God for Students features the New Testament broken up into a year’s worth of daily readings. Each day’s reading...
Silent Presence: Reflections on the Fifth Anniversary of Sept. 11
WHILE SEPT. 11 was a shocking event for people around the world, for me it was deeply personal. And it provided an opportunity to practice the presence of Jesus in the midst of unspeakable suffering.I was servi...
A Little Primer On Humble Apologetics
InterVarsity Press, 2006, 112 pages, $12.00,ivpress.comMaybe you think you aren't intellectual enough to develop successful apologetics skills. No problem — because Sire defines an apologist as one who p...
Being a Girl Who Leads: Becoming a Leader by Following Christ
Bethany House Publishers, 2006, 175 pp.,$11.99, bethanyhouse.comAre the girls in your group ready for a challenge? Using her own experience and biblical texts, Primicerio challenges young women to lead by examp...
Letters To New Pastors
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006,186 pp., $15.00, eerdmans.comThe title of this book would be more accurate as “Artificial Letters to Fictional New Pastors.” Jinkins fails in his attempt to bring an...
Bull’s-Eye: Helping Kids Escape Advertising Attacks
There’s a funny scene in a recent episode of NBC’s sitcom “My Name Is Earl” that reminds me a lot of our students. Earl and his buffoonish younger brother, Randy, are in the motel room w...