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Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry

19 reviews
Doug Fields

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2002

Excelente Libro!!!
Hace unas semanas mi esposo y yo fuimos instalados como pastores de jovenes y desde entonces comence a buscar informacion que nos fuera util para trabajar con este ministerio. Compre este libro y otro adicional pero este resulto ser de gran bendicion. Es un buen libro, facil de leer y el autor sustenta sus ideas con buenas bases biblicas. Ademas, el autor es muy simpatico y ameno lo que hace ...

A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, ...

120 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2004

Perfect Timing!!
I found this book purely by accident(maybe) while searching for another. The title caught my eye first and upon closer inspection I decided this would be an interesting "read" given the place I was at in my own spiritual search. I found this book very educational and it is written as if I were listening to him personally. Brian did a great job of giving me insight into different religious ...

A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, ...

29 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2006

An excellent vision of a Christian orthodoxy
I absolutely loved Brian McLaren's "A New Kind of Christian", a book that opened up a whole new world for me of possibilities of staying within the Christian faith, something on which I had almost given up. Rob Bell's "Velvet Elvis", in a different way, did the same. So I approached this next book by McLaren feeling exceptionally positive towards him and his writing. I wasn't disappointed. ...

The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life (Emergent YS)

10 reviews
Tony Jones

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2005

Very helpful survey of spiritual practices
The Sacred Way offers a helpful survey of the practices of the spiritual life. I like how Jones categorizes the practices into contemplative approaches to spritiuality including such practices as silence and solitude, sacred reading, centering prayer, meditation, the Daily Office and spiritual direction; and bodily approaches to spiritually with such things as fasting, service, stations of the ...

Youth Ministry Management Tools

7 reviews
Ginny Olson, Diane Elliot, ...

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2001

BEST "nuts & bolts" book out there on ministry
This book is genius! I have been through youth ministry courses, I have been to youth specialties, I have been in minsitry (13 years) and I have read the books... You will not find a more comprehensive, nuts & bolts book out there. I frankly don't understand why this book isn't more popular. EVERY young pastor and minister should have this book on their shelf and reference it often. - ...

Starting Right
Kenda Creasy Dean, Chap Clark, ...

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2001

This is among the very few academic textbooks on youth ministry that blends solid research with real-life experience. It is an excellent resource for undergraduate or graduate courses in youth ministry or for youth workers who want to ground their ministry in solid theology.

Purpose-Driven® Youth Ministry

40 reviews
Doug Fields

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 1998

Excellent Youth Ministry Source
This is an essential book/tool in working effectively in the will of God in ministering to young people.

Youth Culture 101 (Youth Specialties)

2 reviews
Walt Mueller

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2007

Timely, Wise, Real
I am a youth minister of over 300 high school students and to 250 junior high students. I discovered this book through the Youth Specialties podcast a few months back and was so taken by author Walt Mueller's report of youth culture that I purchased and devoured the book. This book offers parents and youth workers alike an opportunity to see the major trends and attitudes that are working ...

The Emerging Church: Vintage Christianity for New Generations

43 reviews
Dan Kimball

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2003

Good read
Most of my commentary on this text would simply echo the pros and cons of the other reviews. It is a general intro. to the praxis of emergent ecclesiology. The book was most helpful for me in laying out how other churches are doing the emerging thing. The book was least helpful in Rick Warren's defensive and sometimes critical sidebar blurbs - the other voices and perspectives were ...

Contemplative Youth Ministry: Practicing the Presence of Jesus (Youth Specialties)

7 reviews
Mark Yaconelli

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2006

Extraordinary Resource
This is a stunning book. It's grounded in a seven year Lilly Endowment study of youth ministry. The power of the book is in its authenticity, its deep reality. We lived in a speeded-up, multi-tasking society. A richer life lies in a real connection with God and deep relationships with others. Youth yearn for real conversations with loving adults, they need and respond beautifully to ...

Four Views of Youth Ministry and the Church
Wesley Black, Chap Clark, ...

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2001

This book delineates four distinct philosophical/ecclesiological views of how youth ministry relates to the church at large.

Case for Christ--Student Edition, The

19 reviews
Lee Strobel

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2002

Great book!
This book is condensed, short and easy to read. I have used it in my High school Sunday School classes as a study book for the kids, and they have liked it. It shows a journalistic, logical, convincing argument for Jesus Christ as God and Savior. Would highly recommend it to anyone interested in Christianity and the Truth.

Speaking to Teenagers: How to Think About, Create, and Deliver Effective Messages

1 review
Doug Fields, Duffy Robbins

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2007

Great introductory work
If you've not had any training in communication (public speaking, interpersonal communication), this is a good start. Understanding how to communicate is something overlooked by many youth ministry training programs.

Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives

14 reviews
Leonard Sweet, Andy Crouch, ...

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2003

Decent introduction of topic
The book gives five different perspectives, from five different authors, on how the church should respond to an increasing post-modern culture. It is in a sense a modern day discussion of H. Richard Niebuhr's classic text Christ and Culture. The five perspectives are introduced by Leonard Sweet with a four quadrant matrix. The matrix represents the church's response to cultural change on two ...

The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel, and Church

10 reviews
Shane Hipps

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2006

A Must Read for the Church
Shane Hipps has a knack for being able to effectively read the pulse of our media drenched culture without falling into the polarized positions of most 'Christian' books. Most treatments of culture either wag their finger from afar (void of authentic engagement or understanding), or they immerse themselves so deeply in popular culture, losing their sense of perspective (void of the ...

Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations

19 reviews
Dan Kimball, David Crowder, ...

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2004

Emerging Worship
We used this book as the text for a workshoop on Emerging Worship and we all found it an excellent, easy to read and understand book. Being "beyond" the age of most Emerging Worship groups we still found the book to be inspiring and stimulating. We "conducted" a short (30 minute) service for the others attending other classes and they found our service to be extremely inspirational amd planned ...

The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups

19 reviews
Joseph R. Myers

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2003

Small Groups Pastor's Perspective
This book has given meaning and a new understanding to what I experienced in my neighborhood as a child. On summer nights, people lounged the remainder of their day away on their front porches. Others who were taking a walk would stop and linger for conversation. Conversations tended to be light hearted, but sometimes burdens were shared. I loved my neighborhood because I belonged to it. ...

This Way to Youth Ministry: An Introduction to the Adventure (YS Academic)
Duffy Robbins

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2004

Practical applications, theological foundations, and valuable information for the student beginning a youth ministry.

Postmodern Children's Ministry: Ministry to Children in the 21st Century Church (Emergent YS)

5 reviews
Ivy Beckwith

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2004

AWESOME! A must-read for anyone who deals with the public!
I am an attorney, and theologian and webmaster of numerous religious websites. I have taught in Children's Church about 7 years. This book discusses the CULTURAL SHIFT from the Modern Age (1700-1980 A.D.) to Postmodern. The first chapter alone is so important on this that I faxed parts to the Texas Bar Journal and State Bar of Texas Continuing Legal Education Section telling them they need to ...

Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture-Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel

29 reviews
Brian D. McLaren, Tony Campolo

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2006

Give it a read!
If you were raised in the evangelical church with the Bible already mapped out and interpreted for you and then grew up and started coming to some different conclusions- then you're living out what this book talks about. If you find yourself ever thinking "wait a minute. That doesn't say what I was taught that it says!" then you'll want to read it! I loved this book. It described the ...

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