Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2006,208 pp., www.broadmanholman.comA great book for anyone seeking a true, no-holdsbarred relationship with the living God. In a conversational style, Edwards explains that th...

I NEED TO BE HONEST ABOUT SOMETHING: I don’t believe in youth ministry. In fact, more often than not I believe youth ministry is a colossal waste of time.There is a growing consensus among youth workers t...

Victor-Cook Communication Ministries,2006, 160 pp., $9.99, www.cookministries.comThe literary and media world are abuzz with all things Da Vinci; and even your younger, non-reading youth have heard about some o...

Bare-Bones Youth Ministry in Toluca, Mexico The missionary call of Tim and Annette Gulick, who have been missionaries in Toluca, Mexico, for the past 10 years, was found in a statistic. “We read in YouthW...

The word hustle has taken on many meanings over the years. When I was a kid it brought to mind everything from a disco dance to an X-rated magazine. But as hip-hop culture has emerged and evolved, the term has ...

One of the easiest ways to go insane is to continue doing what you have always done and expect different results. In his book Battle Cry for a Generation, Ron Luce reports that we have dipped to only 4 percent ...

One of the reasons I did not originally pursue work in the field of youth ministry is that I never took it seriously. So you can imagine my surprise that after years of planning to enter the mission field as an...

I’ve been writing this column in this journal for a number of years now, and I don’t think I ever took the time to explain its title, “From a Hole in the Roof.” It refers to the story in...

“Imagine” was former Beatle John Lennon’s agnostic anthem from his 1971 album of the same name. Here, Pastor Paul Turner applies Lennon’s song to the task of reimagining youth ministry. ...

Think for a moment about the last time you royally let somebody down. Perhaps it was a student, a co-worker, or your spouse. We’ve all done it—maybe even this morning. And we’re all familiar with ...