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Growing Young Churchs
Resources include sermon outlines, discussion guides, a 7-day prayer journey, and the Growing Young Assessment—a survey tool that gives congregations a clear picture of how effectively they’re reaching the next generation.
Darkroom Faith
Darkroom Faith is a free video series and resource hub designed to help teens explore big questions about life, faith, and identity in a safe and honest space.
Download Youth Ministry [DYM]
The platform helps save time, spark creativity, and support youth leaders with content that’s relevant and adaptable for any context. Whether you're planning a message series or need a last-minute game, DYM makes trusted tools easily accessible for youth ministry teams.
Bible Project
BibleProject creates free, visually engaging videos, podcasts, articles, and classes to help people experience the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus. Their resources explore biblical books and themes with deep scholarship and creative storytelling, making Scripture more approachable and transformative.
Alpha Youth
Alpha Youth creates a space for young people to hold meaningful conversations about life, faith and purpose. Tools to run the 9-week Alpha series in-person or online are available now.
YouthWorker.com
YouthWorker equips youth ministry professionals and volunteers with youth lessons, ideas, and a bimonthly magazine.
The Great God
This book will help you discover in simple language about the great God of the Bible. Designed with new believers, the young and people new to English in mind, it is easily read and understood. It has been used to teach youth groups, to disciple new believers and for personal study. Even if you are seasoned with many decades in the church, God will use this book to see him in new ways.
Understanding Sexual Identity
Reframing the focus away from the culture wars, Yarhouse introduces readers to the developmental considerations in the formation of sexual identity―all of which occurs in the teen years. He offers practical and helpful ways to think about homosexuality along with suggestions for talking with people who experience same-sex attraction. He also helps parents and youth volunteers learn to graciously respond to children and teens who struggle with questions of sexual identity, and discusses how youth ministry can become more relevant in the lives of youth who are navigating these issues.
3 Big Questions That Change Every Teenager
Today's teenagers are the most anxious, creative, and diverse generation in history--which can make it hard for us to relate. And while every teenager is a walking bundle of questions, three rise above the rest:
Who am I?
Where do I fit?
What difference can I make?
Faith Beyond Youth Group
Help teenagers become adults who boldly live out a robust faith in a watching world
Most typical youth ministries today produce nice, obedient kids who behave themselves--and then leave the church and the faith. Even those who remain struggle to extend their own faith beyond youth group. They seem like "good kids," but their lives and decisions outside youth group aren't oriented toward Jesus.
Clearly, that is not our goal. So what are we doing wrong? And how can we better serve the unique needs of the most anxious, adaptive, and diverse generation in history?
Faith for Exiles
Negative perceptions. Church dropouts. Prodigals and nomads. It's easy to get discouraged by all that's going wrong when it comes to Christianity and the emerging generation. Yet what's going right? In fact, signs of hope are springing up all around. In Faith for Exiles, the author of unChristian and You Lost Me unveils major new Barna research that uncovers what's working--five practices that contribute to resilience. Enter the world of resilient young adult Christians and learn how they are sustaining faith. Finally, you can find hope in all that God is doing among young disciples today.
Living In A Gray World
In today’s world, the topic of homosexuality seems to be part of daily conversation in the media, in politics, and even inside churches, with pressure to accept one view or the other. And if you’re a Christian teen, you may feel overwhelmed by the opinions. New York Times bestselling author Dr. Preston Sprinkle has encountered these same questions, and as a theologian and a college professor he has dealt with these issues firsthand.
Embodied
Compassionate, biblical, and thought-provoking, Embodied is an accessible guide for Christians who want help navigating issues related to the transgender conversation.
Preston Sprinkle draws on Scripture as well as real-life stories of individuals struggling with gender dysphoria to help readers understand the complexities and emotions of this highly relevant topic. With careful research and an engaging style, Embodied explores:
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Overthrowing Your Empire of Noise
Noise. It’s everywhere. Televisions blaring out commercials. Opinions shouted over the radio. The Internet and its unlimited distractions. All of the tasks and choices that you know don't really matter. Always intensifying, becoming a deep part of our everyday cycle, our now hurried lives.
Your First Two Years in Youth Ministry
Since forever altering the course of the youth ministry world with his best-selling, groundbreaking book, Purpose-Driven® Youth Ministry, Doug Fields’ mind—but especially his heart—has been focused on the many unique needs of new youth workers.
Taking Theology to Youth Ministry
In Taking Theology to Youth Ministry, Andrew Root invites you along on a journey with Nadia―a fictional youth worker who is trying to understand the “why” behind her ministry. Her narrative, along with Root’s insights, help you uncover the action of God as it pertains to your own youth ministry, and encourage you to discover how you can participate in that action. As you join this theological journey, you’ll find yourself exploring how theology can and should influence the way you do youth ministry.
Sticky Faith
Building on the bestselling go-to guidebook Sticky Faith, The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family shows parents how to actively encourage their children's spiritual growth so that it will stick with them into adulthood and empower them to develop a living, lasting faith.
Ministry in a Secular Age Set
In Faith Formation in a Secular Age, Root provides an alternative take on the issue of youth drifting away from the church and articulates how faith can be formed in our secular age.
Through an abundance of examples, The Pastor in a Secular Age explores how pastors have both perpetuated and responded to our secular age, and provides a new vision for pastoral ministry today.