Youth Religion

Genuine, lasting life-change is the heartbeat of youth ministry but too few students experience it. Through a simple but revolutionary process of “mentoring a few,” dramatic transformation can happen in the lives of students—with benefits that spread throughout the ministry.

The Good Samaritan is a first-of-its-kind catechism written specifically for young people (ages 6-12) to communicate the unchanging truths of the Orthodox faith in the most accessible and engaging way. This book catechism follows the patristic model of sin as illness, Christ as the medicine and the church as the hospital for the healing of the soul.

For youth workers, volunteers, denominations and other leaders who want the youth retreat to end in the parking lot instead of the emergency room.

This book's combination of radical storytelling techniques and practical examples of how to carry them out in various ministry settings forges an exciting new path for the emerging church.

This book guides you on the way to discovering, developing and practicing a new youth ministry design. As your youth ministry’s principal architect, you have the opportunity to realize a rhythm of disciple-making that more effectively engages youth with God, through Jesus, as they journey toward a life of continual spiritual finding and evolution. This resource will provide you with a ministry design that more influentially encourages students to live, lead, and love in the way of Jesus.

You are a youth pastor or youth worker, and someone dies. It could be the grandparent, or parent of a youth in your ministry. It could be a peer who is killed in a terrible accident, or it could be a student in a local high school or middle school. How will you respond to help the families, the individuals in your youth group or the youth at the local high school? Could it be that God has put you in the situation for a divine purpose? I think that is why you are reading this now.

Social media will help your ministry go further, faster. In this practical book, you'll learn: how to get started with social media in your ministry; the best ways to create an endless stream of engaging content; essential checkpoints to consider before posting things online; 24 topics you can use to get your followers talking; and more!

يشرح كتاب "شباب حول الرسول" للكاتب محمد عبد الله بعض مناقب الصحابة وجميل شمائلهم التي جمعت طيب الأقوال وصالح الأعمال، ليقتدي بها الأبرار. يبدأ الكاتب في الحديث عن الصحابة في القرآن الكريم، حيث يستشهد بآيات قرآنية تحكي عن قدر الصحابة الذي رفعه الله درجةً نالوا فيها الرضى منه، كما وصفهم الله في آياته بالشدة على الكفار وبالرحمة فيما بينهم.

Are you in a church where there is a youth population but nothing to do? Do you lack leaders who are committed to your current youth ministry? Or, does your youth ministry lack productivity and creativity to attract youth of all ages? Let this book guide you! In this book, the author will direct you on how to find and develop great leaders, find the needs of your targeted youth, and how to keep them interested in ministry. Most importantly, become productive citizens who will be well rounded and Christ-like. Start your journey of growing your Youth Ministry? NOW!

A practical book for youth ministers, pastors, parents, and teachers who want to teach prayer to teenagers. The book includes short, meditative chapters that provide listeners with the appropriate history, theology, pedagogy, and examples for introducing teens to the life of prayer.

As Asian Americans are rising in terms of number and influence, the need for understanding their identity becomes important on academic, social, political, economic, and intellectual levels. This book is a very important book to meet the rising need that has been largely neglected in academia and in the publishing industry thus far. This book is an essential addition to all serious university libraries, public libraries, and private personal libraries of educated individuals.

We label people like we all work in the shipping department at Amazon. Labels slap an oversimplified, clickbait definition on who we are and what we value, as if the sum of all we are can fit neatly on a self-adhesive tag positioned just above our shirt pocket. What if we lost the labels? What if all the labels, both self-applied or others attached, no longer clung to you, defined you, or controlled you? A label-free life awaits you.

It's about time—finding God in the good times, the bad times, party time, ordinary time, all the time. In these questions and answers from his online column, Ask the Bible Geek®, Mark Hart helps young people make time for God, "the timeless One who entered time and space" for each of us.

En el capítulo 1 vemos la importancia de la revelación y la experiencia del Espíritu y el Cuerpo. En el capítulo 2 vemos la importancia de la oración y la Palabra para nuestra predicación del evangelio con la ayuda adicional de nuestros hogares. En el capítulo 3 abordamos otros asuntos importantes relacionados con nuestra predicación del evangelio. Primero, necesitamos un vivir diario apropiado, y segundo, necesitamos un amor universal.

Every person inherits a system of beliefs. Maybe yours came from community, or church, or society, or your parents. But one day you reach a breaking point. You look at the rituals and traditions and worship and theology and it all seems foggy. Foreign. Strange. You wonder why you believe what you believe. If you even believe anymore... Brothers Ryan and Josh Shook reached that breaking point. Their book, Firsthand, is a smart, honest and deeply felt journey that invites you to leave behind handed-down beliefs and find authentic faith.

Jerome Klosowski has ministered with teens and young adults since 1972 and has a profound and deep interest in their faith journey. He is particularly alarmed about the Catholic Church’s leaders inability to hear young peoples concern about faith and its many apparent contradiction to science. This led one teen to embrace atheism. Another teen wrote: Dear Mr. Jerry, I have to admit, hearing my friend's reasons for atheism did spur some questions in me. You have no idea how much it means to me that I have someone who can answer them for me. I love it very much. Some questions raised by ...

Eating Disorders, depression, gender confusion - these sound like problems for other people, but the reality is your students are dealing with them every day. The issues that girls face are growing in complexity and number. Written with the end user in mind, this resource will be one that won't leave a youth worker's hands.

If we are going to have a victorious church tomorrow, we must focus on the youth today. In this book, Comiskey lays out the biblical base for youth ministry, highlights the felt needs of today’s youth, and then shows why small groups are the most effective way to make youth disciples today. Comiskey explains the difference between inter-generational cells and student-led groups, the equipping process for youth leaders, how to coach leaders, and how to get started in youth cell ministry. Comiskey also describes common errors in youth ministry and how to avoid them.

School. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. Sound familiar? In high school, our lives fall into the same nerve-wracking pattern, but what if it didn't have to be that way? What if stress and fear didn't dictate our decisions? What if we dared to do great things for God, not someday, but right now?

Popular culture is full of phrases like these, telling us the best way to live, the right things to buy, the right body shape to have, the right people to hang out with. These messages are everywhere we look, 24 hours a day.