Product Description: Since 1993, forty-nine theological seminaries have created opportunities for high school students to participate in on-campus High School Theology Programs (HSTPs) that invite them to engage in serious biblical and theological study...read more

Product Description: In a soundbite world, teens need to be taught to talk more deeplyOne hundred adaptable discussion starters provide a brief story, usually factual, followed by a series of provocative questions. Each story explores a topic pertinent to young people, such as drugs, truancy, or parental relationships; or an important biblical concept, such as giving, the afterlife, or love...read more

Product Description: Carl Dreyer (1889-1968) is the subject of this analysis which concentrates on his three most accessible sound films - "Day of Wrath", "Odet" and "Gertrud". Often regarded as esoteric and challenging, Dreyer has rarely been studied, and this book attempts to reverse the trend.

Product Description: We Need Each Other! Better Together shows dramatic evidence of what can happen when we lay aside our logos and egos and unite for a cause that really matters. Hear the story of how leaders from 21 national youth ministries met for what they thought was a one-time meeting…how their shared burden for teenagers drove them to their knees…and how the resulting unity was the catalyst for founding the National Network of Youth Ministries...read more

Product Description: What do small group leaders need? Good Bible studies that engage their kids. The purpose of this book in the Studies on the Go series is to provide small group leaders with creative and engaging Bible study questions they won’t have to rewrite...read more

Product Description: In simpler, more homogenous times, youth ministry was a relatively straightforward activity. The church's youth gathered (occasionally inviting their unchurched friends from school), played together, sang together and listened together to a message from a bright, engaging youth minister, selecting from a relatively defined set of topics: "What does it mean to follow Jesus when it comes to _______?" Now Christian youth must make sense of their faith, with its exclusive claims, in light of their close friends who are Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, atheist, "other" or even "none...read more

Product Description: Drugs and alcohol. Self-injury. Eating disorders. Puberty. Suicide. Sexual purity. These are just a few of the challenges facing teens and young adults today. This concise, topical guide to the Bible is the perfect tool for parents and youth pastors wanting to provide scriptural guidance to youth regarding the issues they face in their formative years...read more

Product Description: We tend to organize our youth ministry from the inside out. We give gathered groups of individual youth tools and teaching to form their souls around a Christian identity. So far, so good. But what if our identity is not merely or even primarily rooted and established somewhere inside ourselves? What if our identity is shaped and cultivated in the relationships we inhabit--each with their own distinctives and demands―and in the overlapping stories we find ourselves in? Prefabricated approaches to ministry that focus on the interior makeup of our youth may make for good youth group members, but these limited approaches don't reach beyond the youth room into other corners of their lives...read more

Product Description: A nationally known expert provides a new edition of his influential youth ministry classic.

Product Description: Sometimes you don’t have their attention for very long. Whether you’ve planned for a short message or your program has run long, a ten-minute talk is sometimes all you have space for in your youth ministry. So make sure you make it ten minutes that really count! If you need to communicate something meaningful in just a little time, 10-Minute Talks has just what you need—more than two dozen ready-to-go, story-based talks...read more