Youth Religion

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.

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.

Here’s the truth: If you don’t get people engaged with your message at the start, they’ll be distracted as your message moves along. With these stories, you’ll have exactly what you need to master the art of the start! These stories aren’t the “Everyone gather around while I tell you a story” kind of stories. And they aren’t the “Once upon a time” kind of stories either. These stories come from weird news, current events, and interesting moments in history. It’s so much fun when you connect them to the topics of your sermons!

Have you ever wanted to change the world around you? God has shown us how to do so. In The Joshua Principle, you will learn what the Joshua principle is and how to influence your world by impacting the children and youth around you. What you learn in these chapters can help you transform any family, church, neighborhood, or city.

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.

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.

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?

Understanding what youth really desire and want in life is a key principle to a successful family, parenting, ministry, organization, and nation at large. Youth Desire has an unveiling power to expose you to what matters in life and rightful application in the real world. It addresses the youth and people in the world about the prevailing questions frequently asked and questions that trouble the hearts of young people.

Comiskey establece la base bíblica para el ministerio de niños, y luego anima a los pastores y líderes a formular su propia visión y filosofía para el ministerio de niños basado en el texto bíblico. Comiskey destaca cómo discipular a niños, tanto en el grupo grande como en el pequeño. Rápidamente pasa a ejemplos prácticos de grupos celulares intergeneracionales, y a la efectividad con la que las iglesias celulares han implementado este tipo de grupo.

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.

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.

Will They Follow? is an extensive and comprehensive book that describes how to create a program that children love to attend. Through an impactful and exciting ministry, you can fulfill Christ's final command to make disciples. Will They Follow? explains how to make the narratives of the Bible come alive. Included are teaching Bible verses for life, leading a child to Christ, playing games and activities to reinforce the Bible lesson, recruiting and energizing volunteers, partnering with parents, dealing with behavioral issues, and attracting children from unchurched homes.

This book equips readers with proven principles to help them have life-changing discussions with kids about how Jesus changes lives, explain the plan of salvation, or lead a child in prayer to begin a relationship with Christ.

Soul School will speak to the deeper soul longings of every youth worker. Jeanne Stevens will inspire you to search your soul by providing you with stories, resources, and tools to reconnect your soul to the Creator of effective ministry.

Raising Aaron Cole is a heartwarming and inspiring audiobook that chronicles the journey of a father who sacrificed his own dreams to help his son achieve his. Aaron Cole is a 2X Dove Award-Winning, #1 Billboard Charting Christian recording artist, and this book tells the story of how he got there. From a young age, Aaron had a passion for music, and his father, who came to Christ at a Christian Hip Hop concert, recognized his talent at the age of 3.

Danny Ray, a world-class magician and seasoned communicator, shares heart-warming, humorous, and relatable stories from his own youth that will help students engage the concepts of this book. Most of all, however, he teaches a life-changing biblical truth that a teenager's awesomeness isn't found in trying to be like someone else, but rather in fully embracing the person who God made them to be.

This book is designed to help you put in place a youth group program that will work for you, not against you. It will help you think about your goals, shape your program, and run meetings that will help bring solid growth.

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.

Change: If I Can You Can is the story of a man destined for as much turmoil as life can provide. Travis Angry created his identity through childhood rebellion, dropping out of school, being in the military, fighting cancer, marrying, divorcing, raising children as a single father, obtaining a college degree, writing a memoir, and working as a professional speaker. Angry’s gift is showing others how to resolve fear.

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.