Youth Religion

Drawing on 30 years of ministry experience in four churches across three countries and two continents, my aim is to help you consider how you can better mentor an increasingly isolated generation of older teenagers and young adults - those aged between 18 and 30 years of age.

Middle school hasn’t gotten any easier. The pressure to fit in skyrockets, and our self-confidence takes a dive. We’re trying to be God’s girl in middle school, but what does that look like? What’s God’s girl to do when the drama kicks in, when you’re bullied, or when that boy doesn’t like you back? We need to find our confidence. We need some time for Just Us Girls.

Our Father: Understanding God was written with one goal: to inspire and motivate youth to think of becoming good fathers and family leaders at the right time by showing them how simple it is to understand our father, God.

As a young Christian woman, do you struggle with insecurities and feel bogged down by the pressures and expectations of society? Do you find it challenging to take care of yourself and be a faithful daughter of God? Emily Wilson Hussem used to feel the same way. In Go Bravely, the Catholic musician and speaker offers 20 bits of advice that will equip you to tackle your deepest concerns about relationships, self-esteem, and dating while strengthening your faith at the same time.

In this engaging and refreshingly simple audiobook, JJ Vasquez explains how church leaders, parents, and pastors can move past just "telling" the next generation about Christ, and start "introducing" them to Him. As a denominational youth leader, University Professor of Youth and Family Ministry, youth pastor of a 400+ student ministry, and a parent of two, JJ pulls from a rich variety of experience.

Jesus Christ, the greatest teacher who ever lived, was able to connect so well with his audience because he used unique parables, metaphors, and similes that related to the lives of his students. Farmers, fisherman, tax collectors, and shepherds were given the "keys to the Kingdom" through a clearer understanding of truth. This book is designed for today's baseball player to understand Christianity in a new and profound way through the teaching of the Bible through the game of baseball.

Gangs are sophisticated, production oriented entities that operate under a perverted form of the Trinity. This book provides listeners with an understanding of their motives and origins. Additionally, it explains in great detail that violent and deviant behaviors are simply the outward expression of a gang's commitment to their god - money. Gangs vs. Kingdom arms listeners with weapons to prepare for spiritual battle as it reveals evidence based strategies that can be implemented in any community. Prepare for battle!

Your ministry will grow bigger when your ministry gets better. If you apply what you learn in this book, you will see massive results in just one month! Guaranteed. In this book, you will spend 30 days looking at 30 ways to take your ministry to the next level. Every one of these tips is packed with the potential to help you build a better youth ministry one day at a time.

Whether you're a youth ministry rookie or a seasoned veteran, walking into a new church or a new role can be a big challenge. You need to set the tone for your ministry and establish yourself as a leader, but you don't have very long to do it.

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.

Home schooling will not be easy, but nothing truly worth doing is ever easy. If teaching your children what they need to become exceptional adults both academically and morally was easy then they would still be able to do that in public schools. The public school system is failing because they look at your child as a body that fills a seat which is worth a certain amount of money to the school system and as a mind to conduct social experimentation on.

Our lives are ruled by habits. We are defined by them. How our days play out, how we act and react, and even how we eat, sleep, and talk are all affected by our habits - for better or for worse. It's said that it takes 21 days to form a new habit or break an old one, so why not spend the next 21 days forming a habit of spending time with God? If you've got 21 days, we've got 21 devotions specifically written for today's teen girls.

People Skills for Youth Pastors is filled with practical tips and techniques that will help you take your ministry and relationships to the next level.

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!

This abbreviated work is the fruit of years of research and a lifelong journey of investing in the next generation. It provides an inside look into a top-rated online private Christian school through the eyes of the founder. Dr. Yelena V. Solodyankin forcefully argues that the growing trend in online education (especially online Christian education) is a positive phenomenon and is something to be embraced. She demonstrates that online Christian education is one of the primary vehicles by which parents can make a lasting impact on their child’s academic and social-emotional development.

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.

In a world where teenage girls are bombarded by different messages about love, dating, and marriage, God's voice can get lost in the noise. Take some time to discover the kind of love God wants for you. Learn how listening to God and choosing to love like he does even when it's difficult can lead to real, deep satisfaction and a love that helps others see the heart of God. You might just find that God's design for relationships is bigger and more wonderful than you ever imagined!

From best-selling devotional author, Hannah Duggan, comes a 10-week Bible study for the young adult asking the question, "What now?" As young adults, we question every decision. We live in the fear that our futures will crash and burn. We're terrified of messing up and missing out. Our lives are characterized by hard questions, and we're disillusioned with cliché answers. But what if I told you that you're right where God wants you?

Life gets tough. People get mean. How do we push through? What does God's plan mean for our lives? What does it mean to be God's girl in middle school? Well, that's what Just Us Girls is all about.

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.