In 2011, CNN.com published an article discussing evangelical outrage to a recent Arkansas court decision allowing homosexual couples to adopt children. The author highlighted the fact that while evangelica...

Our God is a god of surprises. Are your eyes open to His surprises?This year, I began a plan to read through the Bible in 90 days. I am about a third of the way to the goal (and a few days behind). Among severa...

It's springtime in America! The birds are chirping, the flowers are budding, and the Chicago Cubs are just about mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. All this also means it's prom season, that most drea...

I vividly remember the scene in Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic horror film Poltergeist, when little Carol Anne Freeling, played by Heather O'Rourke, announces to the rest of the family the arrival of supernatu...

Because the theme of this issue of YouthWorker is Best Games, I thought I'd use this space to address the issue of fun. It's pretty much impossible to stay in young teen ministry for more than a few weeks witho...

Think what comes to mind when you see the word koinonia.You probably recognize it as the Greek word for fellowship and likely know it as more than potluck dinner fellowship. Fortunately, this word effectively h...

Nancy RueTommy Nelson, 127 pp./140 pp., $9.99/ $7.99Tommy Nelson has given Nancy Rue's 12-year-old The Lily Series a cosmetic makeover and a re-release on life. The three fiction and three non-fiction books in ...

Matt Dorff (Adapter), Mark B. Arey (Author), Philemon D. Sevastiades (Author), Chris Koelle (Illustrator)Zondervan, 2012, 192 pp., $19.99The Book of Revelation is a biblical graphic novel that includes the...

Gary ThomasDavid C. Cook, 2013, 256 pp., $14.99At first blush, one might consider The Sacred Search to be a pre-marital guide for couples—and it is—but the book tends to address questions and c...

Kris Vallotton and Jason VallottonRegal Books, 2012, 134 pp., $16.00In Moral Revolution: The Naked Truth about Sexual Purity, authors Kris and Jason Valloton cut a wide swath of topics related to all things rel...