YouthWorker Journal is pleased to welcome Jim Burns back to our pages. Many of you already know about Jim and his decades of work with youth ministry, churches, and families. For the rest of you, here’s a...

Abingdon Press, 2006, 82 pp., $12.00,abingdonpress.comThe Pastor’s Guide to Youth Ministry serves as a wonderful snapshot of healthy youth ministry. Although it is almost devotional admonition for youth p...

Anger, the fifth in our series on the Seven Deadly Sins, is a difficult sin to write about. In our minds there seems to be an appropriate anger and an inappropriate anger. The believer just needs to discern the...

Tyndale House Publishers, 2006, 164 pp.,$14.99, tyndale.comIn Ministry Mutiny, Stier tells the narrative of a discouraged youth ministry pastor ready to abandon his calling. The young youth minister finds he ha...

Castle Quay Books, 2006, 141 pp., $12.99,castlequaybooks.comEighth-grader Kirsten Femson wanted to give her classmates a special graduation gift, so she wrote letters to many well-known Christian leaders and wi...

A few years ago, I was a teaching fellow at Boston University for an undergraduate course on the Bible. On the first day of the fall semester, the professor opened the class with a touch of drama. He walked in ...

I remember as a youth ministry leader seeing one of my high school kids who two weeks earlier “gave his life to Jesus” get busted for bringing acid to school. I asked him, “What happened, bro?...

Hungry Planet, 117 pp./115 pp., 2006,$9.99 each, hungryplanet.netGeared toward a post-high school audience, The Art of the First Date and The Art of Rejection are written as practical guides that offer strategi...

IVP Books, 2006, $12.00, 160 pp.,www.ivpress.comMost books on evangelism methods leave the reader feeling frustrated or guilty rather than excited or equipped. Not so with Reimagining Evangelism, the latest fro...

Bethany House, 2006, 176 pp., $10.99,bethanyhouse.com“Do not underestimate the power of athletes to influence lives,” sportswriter Dave Branon writes at the beginning of his sports devotional book, ...